It’s never too late to go to school, believes Durga Kami, 68. He walks for over an hour everyday to go to school with his fellow 14-year-old classmates; finishing school had always been a dream, so after a decade of being a widower, he decided to go back to the classroom. He lives alone in his hilltop one-room house in Syangja, Nepal and learnt to read and write at the Naharay Primary School, before finishing his fifth grade with 11-year-old classmates.
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Nepalese grandfather Durga Kami brushes his bushy white beard, puts on his school uniform and, with the aid of his walking stick, trudges for over an hour to class for another day of learning.
Kami has promised his classmate Sagar Thapa that he will cut his beard off if he passes the tenth grade.
“I used to think ‘why is this old man coming to school to study with us?’ but as time passed I enjoyed his company,” Kami’s 14-year-old class mate Sagar Thapa said. “He is a little bit weak in studies compared to us but we help him out with that.”
(This photo essay has been published in arrangement with Reuters.)
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