Rinpoche’s vision of the hostel is a place where the students will receive the best support for their studies, as well as a nurturing place where they will increase their life-skills and develop their confidence in life through extracurricular activities on Saturdays (schools in Nepal are off on Saturdays). These years at the hostel will be key for them for the rest of their life.

The hostel will also be a real home to all students, and especially to the ones who do not have any place where to stay during holidays: in Kathmandu, the boarding school close during holidays, so the students can’t stay at the boarding school, and they can also not go back to their village in Nubri, as it takes 6 days travel from Kathmandu (among which 5 days of difficult trek up the mountains… some of our students are too young to do that trek). Now they have a place where to stay all year-round and focus on their studies without any interruption.