 By raising £5000 we aimed to radically improve the infrastructure of six impoverished Indian primary schools.
From September 2008 to June 2009 we will be raising money to provide six remote Indian primary schools with books, classroom equipment and construction materials.
In order to fundraise for this cause we will be doing a number of challenges culminating in a two week self sufficient bicycle expedition in the Indian Himalayas in August 2009.
 The Project
The primary schools’ investment project was set up by Alex Jack in August 2008 when he visited the Git Dabling valley of the Darjeeling District, India. From having previously volunteered in the area, he was not surprised at what he found.
All the schools are run by the government and are consequently considerably underfunded. Corruption in local government is still wide spread. Alex even found that one school had not received the funding that it should have done to build a kitchen because the local official had vacated his post and taken the money with him. These remote schools are powerless against such corruption and are left to cope with out the funds that they so desperately need. This is why outside direct help will have such a massive effect on the valley’s educational facilities.
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