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“There was nothing left. I am a principal without a school”: The teacher who saved 900 students from Nepal landslide

From BioBioChile · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Rajendra Dawadi evacuated 900 students from a school in Trishuli Bazar, northern Nepal, before a devastating landslide destroyed the institution on Aug. 26.
  • Dawadi said the school vanished after an accountant burst in shouting a warning at about 9 a.m.

Rajendra Dawadi managed to get 900 students out of his school in time. Then he watched the institution he led in Trishuli Bazar, northern Nepal, disappear beneath a devastating landslide on Aug. 26.

“I am a principal without a school,” Dawadi said. The evacuation began after an accountant burst into the school at about 9 a.m., shouting a warning.

The school was destroyed, but the students escaped. Dawadi’s account captures the loss left behind by the landslide: a school principal who saved his pupils, only to lose the institution he served.

I am a principal without a school.

· Rajendra DawadiHe described losing the school after evacuating 900 students before the landslide struck.
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