Alice Project School - Bodhgaya


Bodhgaya is in the Indian state of Bihar, one of the poorest and most economically underdeveloped states in India. The problems of poverty, landlessness, conflict over land tenure, inadequate health care, high infant mortality, inter-caste violence, crime and illiteracy hinder development at all levels.

Bodhgaya is also a primary Buddhist centre, being the place where Siddharta Gautama sat under the famous Bodhi tree and achieved enlightenment, and as such the town attracts considerable Buddhist pilgrims and visitors mostly for the short winter season of two months.

Alice Project Bodhgaya -School




Built in February 1999, Alice Project Bodhgaya opened in 2001 nine kilometers from Bodhgaya in Barbatta area. The school teaches up to 350 children aged between 6 and 15, with 10 full time teachers. There are 4 residential boys

Most of the children come from poor village families with lives often brutalised by the prevailing social conditions. Two students of the school run a shop in Bodhgaya to raise a small amount of money for the school and give their family an income. For working women there are vocational training programs run in the afternoon or evening.






The school building is still being built, a stupa is completed. More land is being purchased to create an agricultural project