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Watch how Ashwani Thapa, a creator from Bihar, connected with children at a remote school.

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00:00Next period, class 4 was sitting on the left side.
00:03That's Ashwini Thapa.
00:06Because of the lack of rooms.
00:08A guy from Bihar who met these kids at Grace Academy.
00:11It's a tiny school in Sikkim, Sardom.
00:13For 30 days, I was going to study here.
00:15Months later, he raised 10 lakh rupees for those same children.
00:18I thought that there were 20,000 views in each video.
00:21But it would be 1-2 lakhs.
00:22A little kid's idea is that if you tell them to sit down,
00:26then you'll be sitting in the entire period.
00:27Six months earlier, he had applied to volunteer there,
00:35but never made the trip.
00:36This time, when he did...
00:37For the children of farmers and single mothers,
00:54mountain guide Lakpa Dawashirpa built this school.
00:57He was the current principal of the school.
01:00To keep it running, he left his profession and turned his cottage into a hostel.
01:04I gave him a question.
01:05I was going to study in class.
01:06I was going to study in class.
01:06But I was going to study, Kamal.
01:08No library, no clean water.
01:10In one room, light from a window.
01:12In another, a weak bulb.
01:14Still 80 children filled the benches.
01:16How did computer science work without computer?
01:18Day after day, he filmed it all.
01:20The assembly, muddy little shoes,
01:22the lessons, lunch with the kids.
01:24And always, little Sam Nima, the youngest, with a flower in hand.
01:27I was going to see her face.
01:28I was going to see her face.
01:29I was going to be scared.
01:31When I saw the children of LKG, I was going to be scared.
01:33There were others too.
01:35For me, UKG was okay.
01:37Kids with endless jokes, impossible questions, and dreams bigger than the hills.
01:46His storytelling began three years ago with his YouTube channel, starting as a creative
01:55experiment that eventually drew people in.
01:58And the first video that I made was voiceless, because I was not comfortable with my voice.
02:04Then, he left home for?
02:06Gaining 1 million subscribers on YouTube.
02:08And I won't return home until I do that.
02:11Sometimes, he threw momo parties for a whole village.
02:14Sometimes, he had shared stories like a man digging a pond in Uttarakhand.
02:19Ashwani told the story that needed attention, and now, the school in Sikkim.
02:23Viewers pitched in, another creator joined in, raising 10 lakh rupee for children in a
02:37far-flunged region, enough to build a new school, a computer lab, and a playground.
02:42So, that's how a man from Bihar transformed a school, and…
02:51And thanks for watching me on more.
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