Monday, May 7, 2018

Maria Cruz Ruiz

                                     
VICKY SHERPA

BIOGRAPHY




Victoria Subirana, known as Vicky Sherpa, is a teacher who has devoted her life to fight for the disadvantaged people in Nepal. She uses education to make a social change.

She was born in Ripoll, Catalonia, in 1959. First, she went to a rural state school in Ripoll and later she went to the University of Vic. There, she studied teaching and she started working as a teacher. In 1979, she studied several courses of Paedagogy in Italy and Brussels, and she got a Master of "Curriculum and Teaching" at Michigan State University.

In 1988, she travelled for the first time to Nepal and she liked it a lot. In Katmandu she saw the poverty and the living conditions of the people there, so she was impressed.
When she returned to Barcelona, she couldn't forget those images of the children in the street. Then, she planned and designed an educational project to help them. One year later, she studied Nepalese in Barcelona and after that she went back to Nepal to do her project.

In 1989, she founded her first school, The Dorgee School. That school took 32 refugee children from the Tibet in its classrooms. In 1998, she founded The Dalekicon school to serve the most disadvantaged people there. She took kids of different etnic groups to integrate them. She began to prepare her Montessory Series of Books, more than sixty books. At the same time, she promoded the association Amics de Viki Sherpa.

In 1999, she created the first school for Primary School Teachers. This school was closed in 2002 because the king of Nepal was killed; but the teacher training has continued to the present times.

In 2002, the association Amics de Viki Sherpa became "The Foundation Eduqual" to apply Viki's methodology: The transformative Paedagogy.

Her work continues today with the collaboration of The Generalitat of Catalonia and Architects without Borders.

I admire her, because she has dedicated her life to improve the people's life in Nepal.

Bibliography
- Wikipedia
- Personal Knowledge






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