Uttargaya Public English School
Uttargaya Public English School
Betrawati, 2000
Inside a classroom
Looking out to the slide on the playground
The cooking and eating area
Closed for the holidays
Nirmala reads Frog & Toad to her class
Nirmala reads Frog & Toad to her class
Balaju, Kathmandu, September 6th, 2018
On this trip, I brought along some of my favorite books to read to children, Arnold Lobel’s stories of Frog & Toad being the closest to my heart.
The boy on the right (leaning forward on the backpack) is Nirmala’s son Samrat.
Apsara and a friend
Apsara and a friend
Kathmandu, 2011
In one of the two school-rooms of a school that my friend Mana started for rural children—about a 6km walk west of Manamaiju Marg—Apsara (in the turquoise sari), a teacher there, shares a laugh with a friend.
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Bonus: a 16-second video from 2011 of Leena, one of Mana’s students (who you can see in the background of the above photo), doing a chicken impression.