James Suresh Ambat, Founder of Building Blocks India, visiting the Sikkim Himalayan Academy in Buriokhop, a remote village in West Sikkim. This is a boarding school, housing 79 students. He is on a mission to secure land in the village to build a school for the poor children that come from very remote parts of the hilly region where the children have to walk for two to three days to get to the school. The parents are illiterate very poor farmers that live off of their land and have a desire to educate their children so that the next generation would be able to break the cycle of poverty.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 05:52:05 +0000
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