Why this school exists
For a long time, a family in these valleys who wanted a good education for their child had to send that child far away. What came back was often a young person fluent in the wider world, and a stranger in their own.
Nyibu Nyigam Yarku – Yekar was founded in 2025 to close that gap. The name carries our purpose: the knowledge of the Nyibu, taught and kept. We are a residential school, which means we are also a household — children wake, study, eat, work and pray here together.
On 27 July 2026, our first batch of students arrived. Their parents had walked in from villages across the district; some had set out the night before. That morning began the way every morning here begins — quietly, with folded hands.
Donyi-Polo Aya Jilaka.
What we mean by “gurukul”
The word can sound like something frozen in the past. That is not what we are building.
What we take from the tradition is the relationship: few students, teachers who know each child's temperament as well as their marks, and learning that happens through shared daily life rather than only through a textbook.
What we add is everything a child in this decade needs — English, mathematics, science, and computers as soon as we can equip a room for them.
What we refuse to give up is the part no syllabus contains: the Tagin language in a child's mouth, the discipline of a shared morning prayer, and the understanding that knowledge which does not become service is only decoration.