National Institute for Zorig Chusum

National Institute for Zorig Chusum

Bhutanese show-case school for traditional arts and crafts

Location: 

National Institute for Zorig Chusum, Thimphu, Bhutan

Duration: 

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Personal highlights

  1. Zorig Chusum: show-case school to be visited by all tourists
  2. Arts and crafts: state-supported education of traditional crafts
  3. Students: for teenagers without any other perspective in life
  4. Boys learn: drawing and forming statues and decorations
  5. Girls learn: sewing and stitching traditional cloths

Image sources

  1. School class learning
  2. Welding bronze statues
  3. Get skilled, be somebody!
  4. Drawing Buddha statues
  5. Sewing and stitching cloths

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