Community school hostel boon for Chepang children

Many students in outlying Dhading villages had to quit studies owing to difficulties in attending classes given the long distances they had to walk every day.

Susmi Chepang, aged 16, studies in grade eight at Kalika Secondary School in Benighat Rorang Rural Municipality Ward No 8 in Dhading district. Before joining this school, she was enrolled in Gothibhanjyang Basic School also in the same ward and it would take her around three hours to reach her school from her home at Dungbang.