Tucked into a valley in the shadow of Annapurna in the Himalayas lies two manjong village here the Gorka people make their home in this isolated farming community the Gorka people arrived in western Nepal from India centuries ago like in most agricultural communities the Gorka rise early to tend to the day’s work preparing the morning meal milking the cattle, and grinding millet into flour tamam Jang is not easily accessible by the outside world.
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The Gorka grow all their own food only kneading salt from town terraces are the most effective farming method in this mountainous terrain helping to decrease erosion after the rice harvest potatoes, and millet are planted villagers carry their crops, and other goods in baskets called dokos the head strap called a nam low transfers the load to the forehead, and allows the carrier to traverse the steep footpaths around the village the grains are dried, and then hand threshed against the ground separating the grain from the chaff harvesting honey is a tradition that the men of Nepal have been practicing for generations honey hunters use harnessed ladders, and ropes to collect honeycomb from the cliffs in the village the highs are hung under the eaves.
And, the local smoke out the bees to harvest the comb the school in Timon Jeong is reflective of the challenges the community faces at large with little access to necessary resources formal education was first reserved for Royals in Nepal it has only been the last years that ordinary Nepali children were able to attend school first through third graders attend the laxmi primary school where the focus is on reading, and writing preparing students for higher education outside the village contributions from the Grand Circle Foundation has helped fund a new classroom, and library in the late afternoon women attend the mothers community a parent-teacher group supporting Laxmi’s principal, and teachers as the Sun begins to set over the Himalayas children play, and their parents return from the fields a long, and productive day.
