In Pictures: The Boy From a Village With No School Grew Up to Warm Ladakh's Coldest Classrooms
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Sonam Wangchuk, who had no school access until age nine in remote Uleytokpo, founded SECMOL (Socio-Economic and Culturally Relevant Education Movement) in 1994 and built solar-powered campuses that now serve thousands of Ladakhi students, transforming education by aligning curriculum with students' lives and languages.
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