jump to navigation search students educational and cultural movement of ladakh secmol type non governmental organisation founded 1988 headquarters ladakh india website www.secmol.org the students educational and cultural movement of ladakh is an indian non governmental organisation based in ladakh jammu & kashmir india . contents 1 history 2 phey campus 3 awards and honours 4 bibliography 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit the students educational and cultural movement of ladakh secmol is an organisation founded in 1988 aimed at reforming the educational system of ladakh by a group of young ladakhis returning from university who understood the problems of the younger generation with modern education their lack of focus and the cultural confusion . their activities include working to reform the government school system helping village students in their education awakening youth to the problems stemming from inappropriate and insensitive schooling producing related videos and radio programmes and designing and building solar heated eco friendly buildings . 1 2 phey campus edit main building secmol campus secmol campus is located near the village of phey in the indus valley 18 km from leh . it was developed between 1994 and 1999 and was inaugurated in 1998 by his holiness the dalai lama . built using simple low cost traditional techniques the campus now comprises three residential houses 20 small cell rooms and a large school building all solar heated . part of secmol s work is to develop techniques that use alternative energy sources . ladakh has over 300 sunny days per year and the sun is therefore a reliable source of energy and an alternative to fossil fuels . 3 the campus is home to about 40 students and a few staff and volunteers who live work and study there . the campus is maintained and to a large degree run by the students themselves on a democratic basis . 1 awards and honours edit the game changer award was presented to sonam wangchuk by the hr club on feb 7 2015 for bringing about educational reforms in ladakh bibliography edit rewriting the books in ladakh lesson from leh son meet ladakh s man of hope see also edit this article contains indic text . without proper rendering support you may see question marks or boxes misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of indic text . ladakh tourism in ladakh thinlas chorol green building references edit a b official website reach ladakh future earth external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to secmol . official website the times of india this article about an organisation in india is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title students % 27 educational and cultural movement of ladakh & oldid 719874641 categories ladakhorganisations based in jammu and kashmir1988 establishments in indiaorganizations established in 1988indian organisation stubshidden categories use indian english from september 2015all wikipedia articles written in indian englishcommons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 12 may 2016 at 09 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view