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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