LIFE SCHOOL NEWS

Stories & developments from our journey at Life School. Follow our progress, challenges, and celebrations as we continue to grow.

News & Updates

2025 Leap of Faith

2025 Leap of Faith

Since 2013, Life School has been a place of hope and love, providing residential education for children in Manipur. As we prepared to welcome 100 students for the 2025 academic year, we were encouraged by an overwhelming interest - 140 families applied for admission...

Welcoming Students Back

Welcoming Students Back

We are pleased that Life School has resumed full operations, with 96 children enrolled for the 2024 academic year. Most of the children come from displaced Meitei families whose homes were destroyed during the conflict and were living in relief camps. The rest of the...

Relief Center at Life School

Relief Center at Life School

Kakching Life School has been temporarily closed in light of the recent conflict and unrest in Manipur. For the safety of all students, the campus has been fully evacuated, with parents quickly arriving to take their children home. Meanwhile, the local government...

Online Classes

Online Classes

Kakching Life School is bustling with 75 children enrolled for the 2023 school year. One of our key goals for 2023 and beyond is to raise the standard of education we offer. On the residential side, the children are well cared for – living in on-campus boys’ and...

LIFE back at Life School

LIFE back at Life School

There is finally LIFE back at Life School! After nearly two years of restrictions of various kinds, the government has now allowed residential schools to fully re-open and admit children. About 40 children have arrived back and the others are returning in the coming...

Through the Pandemic

Through the Pandemic

The pandemic restrictions had schools in Manipur shut down for most of 2020. Kakching Life School had been kept open during the entire lockdown period, with full strength of both residential and teaching staff, and best efforts were made to send lessons via messaging...

2020 Pandemic Challenges

2020 Pandemic Challenges

The School year started off with a big bang – 92 students enrolled in the 2020 school year. We had many returning students, and a few new faces in the crowd. Kakching Life School is not your average boarding school. School staff follow a very specific recruitment...

Life in a Boarding School

Life in a Boarding School

Boarding school is not a common idea for many people. We tend to associate it with upper class society.  However, for some parts of the world it is the way everyone goes to school. Many parents would balk at the idea of letting someone else raise their child so far...

Springtime at Life School

Springtime at Life School

As spring unfolds across different parts of the world, it brings with it the promise of new life. Buds appear on branches, flowers fill the air with their fragrance, and sounds of birds fill the air. In much the same way, the new school year at Kakching Life School...