Meet Nepal’s oldest student, 68-year-old Durga Kami

Unlike most 68-year-olds, Durga Kami, does not wake up and look forward to the rustle of newspapers and a hot cup of tea. Instead, this grandfather of eight, brushes his bushy white beard, puts on his uniform — white shirt, grey trousers and a tie — and walks for over an hour to reach school. Kami, who wanted to be a school teacher but couldn’t finish his studies as a child because of financial constraints, told Reuters that he decided to go back to school to “escape a lonely home life” after the death of his wife. Kami is a student at the Shree Kala Bhairab Higher Secondary School, along with some 200-odd  who call him ‘Baa’, which means ‘father’ in Nepali.

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