Supporting the Village School

The village below Gomi Mountain is small, and its school is smaller. A handful of classrooms, a wood stove in each, and teachers who do far more than their job description. When we opened the camp, it was obvious where help was needed first.

It started with simple things: notebooks, paints, sports equipment — the supplies that run out mid-year and are hard to replace this far from the city. Then, last winter, we helped with heating, so the stoves stayed warm through the coldest weeks without the school having to choose between firewood and everything else.

This is what part of every booking at the camp quietly funds. Guests sometimes ask what "eco camp" means to us, and the honest answer is that it is not only solar panels and timber. A camp on a mountain is only as healthy as the village at its foot.

If you want to be part of it more directly, ask us at the camp. Books in Georgian, art supplies, a morning of your time — small things travel far up here.