Srot Educational Eco-System Foundation

Srot Educational Eco-System Foundation is tucked away in Hamni village. It’s under the Gaidhar Post Office in the Banjar area. If you know this district, you know it’s quite a trek to get up here to 3315 Vill. The valley is stunning to look at, but it can be really isolating for the kids who live here. We set this up because we saw a real gap in how things were being done. Not everyone has the same chances when they live so far up the mountain. We deal with education but also look after the local environment. The trees and the schools are both important to the future here. We use a small room as our home base. It’s mostly filled with stacks of books and some old maps of the area. Sometimes the internet is very slow, so we just do things the old-fashioned way. We talk to the parents face to face. We walk through the orchards and see what's happening. It’s a simple life, honestly. We don't have a lot of funding, so we make do with whatever we have on hand. Most of us grew up in these mountains. We know how the weather can shut everything down for weeks during the heavy snows. That’s usually when we sit down and plan our next steps. Banjar is changing, but villages like Hamni stay the same. We just want to make sure the kids have a future.