2017/07: Hooray! A Reason for Joy!

The “Edu­ca­ti­on for Adults in Lad­akh, Hima­la­ya” pro­ject is on course!

Exten­si­on of the school buil­ding and a new han­di­crafts building
For the vil­la­ge school in Yulch­ung, per­mis­si­on for the addi­ti­on of two class­rooms has been gran­ted by the govern­ment in Leh. Fur­ther­mo­re, the appli­ca­ti­on for the new han­di­crafts buil­ding has also been approved.

School buil­ding
The school buil­ding is to be con­s­truc­ted accor­ding to tra­di­tio­nal design. This means that the win­dows have sin­gle gla­zing and the building’s faca­de has to be made out of sin­gle-lay­er mason­ry. As a result, room tem­pe­ra­tures in a hard win­ter can go down to ‑30° C and, even for peo­p­le used to the cold cli­ma­te, can only be used under dif­fi­cult con­di­ti­ons. The sta­te only covers the cos­ts for this tra­di­tio­nal design. Struc­tu­ral insu­la­ti­on mea­su­res such as dou­ble gla­zing, dou­ble-lay­er mason­ry with appro­pria­te insu­la­ti­on mate­ri­al and a cor­ru­ga­ted iron roof for relia­ble imper­mea­bi­li­ty are missing.

Han­di­crafts building
Ever sin­ce the women have beco­me acquain­ted with fel­ting, a room in which they can also work in win­ter at out­side tem­pe­ra­tures below zero is one of their grea­test wishes.
Moreo­ver, the com­mon workspace is of gre­at importance for the women sin­ce they can dis­cuss tog­e­ther rou­ti­ne topics such as work in the fields, fami­ly mat­ters and dome­stic ani­mals wit­hout being disturbed.
For the con­s­truc­tion of the new han­di­crafts house, the iden­ti­cal govern­ment con­di­ti­ons app­ly as for the school building.

In Leh, Tru­di Vetsch met Sonam Dor­je (Govern­ment Agent for the deve­lo­p­ment of infra­struc­tu­re, edu­ca­ti­on and health in the area of Sen­ge LA). He pre­sen­ted the pro­jects plan­ned to her. Thereu­pon she pro­po­sed using the association’s dona­ti­ons to cover the extra cos­ts for dou­ble-gla­zed win­dows, dou­ble-lay­er mason­ry and cove­ring the tra­di­tio­nal roof with cor­ru­ga­ted iron she­eting to make it waterproof.

The addi­tio­nal cos­ts for the han­di­crafts buil­ding were paid for from the association’s account.

For the­se addi­tio­nal cos­ts for the school buil­ding exten­si­on, dou­ble-lay­er mason­ry, insu­la­ti­on mate­ri­als and the dou­ble gla­zing of the win­dows, the asso­cia­ti­on is now cal­ling for fur­ther donations.