Construction at SECMOL Campus

October 14, 2016

Fond goodbye to our old chansa (the lower dining hall). We’re going to have a new solar-heated dining hall and a bigger better kitchen. The dining hall is rammed earth.

Removing old rooms to make space for the new solar heated dining hall.

Removing the old line of single rooms to make space for the new solar heated dining hall.

 

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College students help with rammed earth construction on their work day. (This is Tani, Stanzin Dolkar from Gya)

 

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College students removing rammed-earth formwork during their work day (This is Phuntok Namgyal from Phobrang and Thinley Dorje from Laga, with R.N. from Burma Nubra looking down).

 

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Taru, who lives in Phey village, originally from Sindupalchok, Nepal, is one of the masons on the construction project.