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Parbung School Project
During a trip to India at the end of 2008, a group of Keystone employees took a weeklong excursion into the interior jungles of Northeast India. This area is one of the remotest areas of India, and a place where few Americans have ever traveled. You can see a video of the trip here.
While in the remote village of Parbung, the group visited the local school and met with some of the teachers and students. There are not many schools in this area, especially good ones, and so this particular school had severe overcrowding problems. More than 300 students crammed into the basement of the church building, and classrooms were divided with thin, bamboo temporary walls.
The headmaster of the school told the Keystone group that he had a dream of purchasing land and building a new school building, so the school could not only accommodate the existing students properly, but could also accept more students who wanted to come there to school. The problem was that there were no finances available for a project like that.
It was decided that the proceeds from the next softball tournament in the Spring of 2009, should go toward the purchase of land for this school. With those funds, the school was able to buy and excavate land, as well as start gathering construction supplies, for a new building. Another group from Keystone had the chance to go back to Parbung in early 2010 and see the work that had been done.
The 2010 softball tournament proceeds also went toward that project and later that year construction of the new building was started. The 2011 tournament raised enough money to finance the rest of the project, and the building is due to be completed in 2012.
Existing School:
New Building
