A view from Gitdubling, West Bengal, overlooking St Joseph's School
Pupils from St. Joseph's School, Gitdubling, West Bengal
Gitdubling is a small market village surrounded by other small villages scattered around in the hills of the Kalimpong hill region.
Names of some of these villages: Nok, Pochok, Longsheol, Kaffer, Pakang and Dubling.
The whole area is very hilly and forested, and hard surfaced single track roads are few and far between.
The people from the surrounding villages depend on Gitdubling for:- shopping , market day is on a Wednesday, for religious celebrations and for schooling after they have completed grade 4 in the other village schools. St Joseph's School in Git Dubling takes the pupils up to grade 10.
Some of the villagers have to walk for up to 3 or 4 hours to reach Gitdubling and then walk home again carrying heavy loads ,supported by bandas around their foreheads, and mothers with babies strapped around their mid drift.
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