CITTAVOGUE Features Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School
VOGUE India features CITTA in October 2020 issue on Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School after world-renowned designer Sabyasachi designs the Ajrakh uniforms for the students to begin wearing this December!
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Read more about the school and
GYAAN Center designed by
Diana Kellogg Architects
Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School
Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School: Aug-Sept 2019
BONUS VIDEOS FROM THE CONSTRUCTION – SEPTEMBER 2019
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Update! GYAAN Project in Jaisalmer: June-July 2019
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Watch the progress of the RAJKUMARI RATNAVATI GIRLS’ SCHOOL in Jaisalmer India!
Constructed from local sandstone, the Girls’ School and Womens Center will address the need to educate girls and empower women from the neighboring villages of Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. The oval forms reflect universal symbols of female strength. The structure replicates the undulating planes of the sand dunes and also serves as a metaphor for the rippling effect that education can have on impoverished areas. The intention is also to incorporate the traditional building methods in a modern design with the hope that the techniques will gain recognition and continue to flourish.
SCHOOL’S LAND
Aerial View, Jaisalmer, India
The land originally held only an existing hut with a fence around the property.
April, 2019, we begin to see the foundation and oval shape of the school:
AERIAL VIEW 
SCHOOLS COURTYARD 
FUTURE CLASSROOM LOCATION BETWEEN WALLS 
BASE OF FOUNDATION 
SCHOOLS COURTYARD 
SCHOOLS COURTYARD
After a few weeks of construction, the next step was the exterior walls of the school. These pictures were taken in May and the middle of June.
AERIAL VIEW 
VIEW FROM SOUTH, END OF MAY 
VIEW FROM SOUTH END MIDDLE OF JUNE 
EXTERIOR WALL PROGRESS 
EXTERIOR WALL PROGRESS 
EXTERIOR WALL PROGRESS 
EXTERIOR WALL BY MAIN ENTRY 
EXTERIOR WALL NEXT TO SIDE ENTRY
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CITTA Relief Efforts Continue in Rural Nepal Villages
CITTA Executive Director, Michael Daube, continues earthquake relief efforts in rural villages that have not yet been reached.
CITTA in Kathmandu for Earthquake Relief
CITTAs team has arrived in Kathmandu safely and are bringing relief and medical support to so many in need. Thank you to all who have been a part of supporting our efforts through your kind and immediate donations. Her are some of the photos over the past few days since we arrived.
Shanku, Nepal, was hit hard by the earthquake. Dr. Christopher Barley, Dr. Sanjay Bhattachan and Dr. Dikshanta Prasai helped provide some care.
CITTA Team in Kathmandu for Earthquake Relief
CBS This Morning News | May 1, 2015, 7:00 AM
DOCTOR WARNS 2ND WAVE OF DEATHS COULD HIT NEPAL
| SANKHU, Nepal | Nepal is desperately poor. Its hospitals are overcrowded with earthquake survivors who need urgent medical treatment, and the threat of infectious disease, given the dismal circumstances at the overstrained facilities, is real and mounting.
Dr. Christopher Barley normally treats wealthy patients, even royalty, at his Park Avenue practice in New York. But he is also the president of CITTA.org, a non-profit organization working for over 20 years in remote locations of India and Nepal.
When the earthquake hit, he dropped everything and flew to Nepal with a team from CITTA including its founder, Michael Daube.
CBS News Holly Williams caught up with him in the town of Sankhu, about 10 miles northeast of the hard-hit capital city of Kathmandu, trying to assess and treat a woman with a badly bruised leg.
Barley knows the country well. Through the organization he works with CITTA.org, he built a hospital in a remote Nepalese village 12 years ago.
Miraculous rescue of teen from Nepal earthquake rubble
“It’s actually quite heartbreaking for me to walk around and see this,” he tells Williams as they walk through the rubble-strewn streets. “Unfortunately, for some reason, some of the poorest places are often hit the hardest.”
Barley checks Sapta Maya Shrestha’s head carefully for fractures. She was hit by falling bricks when her house collapsed.
“She’s very lucky,” he proclaims, before moving on to clean the wounds of Laxmi Nakami. Nakami lost her home in the quake. Now she’s living with ten other families in a disused chicken coop.
The 7.8 earthquake that struck on Saturday didn’t just take thousands of lives, it destroyed families, entire communities, and centuries of history in the Himalayan nation.
With clean water in short supply, what Barley’s really worried about now is infection and disease.
“Just about anything you can get in the tropics, they’ll be getting,” Barley warned of the coming weeks for the survivors. “The number of people that may die from that can be bigger than the original problem of the buildings falling down.”
Williams says many people in Nepal share Barley’s concerns. Over the last few days CBS News has seen thousands of people leave Kathmandu, concerned that the tent cities that have sprung up around the capital could become breeding grounds for infectious disease.
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