'Born in the high Himalaya separated from family for education after 12 long years, it's time to go home'.
A moving documentary finds a group of children in a remote Nepalese village having to decide between their family and their future. Born high in the Himalayas, the children featured in Zara Balfour and Marcus Stephenson’s film left home for Kathmandu, to be taught at a school run by a Buddhist monk. With no ability to return home when they want, the children are away for a decade. But at 16, upon graduating, they must take the arduous journey back home. But as this extraordinary film unfolds, the stress of a family reunion is the least of everyone’s problems.
Featuring an exclusive introduction from Bear Grylls.
★★★★ “A wonderfully touching documentary”
- Nigel Andrews, Financial Times
West Nepal is one of the least developed places in the world and desperately needs support. It’s home to the country’s most vulnerable people, more than half of them living in poverty. Almost two thirds of children under five are malnourished.
Empowering children through education is the best chance the people have to develop their lives, but until lifestyle, communication and transportation are improved, it won’t be possible to educate children in the villages.
We have a goal to improve communications in the villages so that children can video chat with their parents during their years at school.
In the long term, we would like to help village conditions improve to the point that teachers will want to live there and therefore educating children in the villages will be possible.
West Nepal is one of the least developed places in the world and desperately needs support. It’s home to the country’s most vulnerable people, more than half of them living in poverty. Almost two thirds of children under five are malnourished.
Empowering children through education is the best chance the people have to develop their lives, but until lifestyle, communication and transportation are improved, it won’t be possible to educate children in the villages.
We have a goal to improve communications in the villages so that children can video chat with their parents during their years at school.
In the long term, we would like to help village conditions improve to the point that teachers will want to live there and therefore educating children in the villages will be possible.