Committed to the people of the Everest region since 1961.
Thanks to Kiwis like you, remote communities in Nepal have better schools and health care.
We don't decide what a village needs. We ask.
Sixty years of work in the same valleys, shaped every time by the people who live there. Five areas, one habit.
Education
Schools, teachers, scholarships
From one school to a region
It began with a single classroom in Khumjung. The work now runs the whole way from a village school to further study, through teacher training, scholarships and materials. Some of the first students teach in those schools today.
Healthcare
Hospitals and clinics
Care where there was none
Before Khunde Hospital opened in 1966 there was no hospital in the region. Khunde and Phaplu still serve thousands each year, alongside a network of clinics and ongoing medical training, in valleys you can only walk or fly into.
Water
Gravity-fed systems
Clean water, and hours given back
Collecting water once took a large part of the day, and when a supply failed, health failed with it. Gravity-fed systems pipe clean water from mountain springs to homes, schools and lodges, so families spend that time living instead of carrying.
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Environment
Forests and firewood
Protecting the mountains people live in
Sir Ed saw early what tourism would do to the Khumbu. Demand for firewood was stripping the forests that the valleys depend on. The work to protect them, for the people who live there rather than the people who visit, continues.
Livelihoods
Skills and income
A future you don't have to leave for
The surest way to weaken a mountain community is for its young people to have to go elsewhere to make a living. This work builds the skills, training and income that let them choose to stay.
Sixty years in the Everest region
Since 1960 the Trust has worked alongside the communities of Solukhumbu on schools, health care, and the forests the valleys depend on. These are some of the numbers. The projects behind them are worth more of your time.
Years of partnership
Schools built, 1961 to 1997
Hospitals still serving
Trees planted over 30 years
Donate today
New Zealand donors can claim 33.33% of any donation of $5 or more back from Inland Revenue. Keep your receipt. The Himalayan Trust is a registered New Zealand charity, CC39393.
More than one way in
Giving is the simplest way to help. It is not the only one.
Become a member
Members get the Annual Report, a vote at the AGM, and the honest version of where the money went.
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Trek with us
Walk into the Khumbu with people who have spent their lives there. Every dollar of profit goes straight back into the work you came to see.
Take on a challenge
Climb your own mountain and make it count. Summit Challenge runs every March, and we will back you the whole way.
The Himalayan Dispatch
Sir Ed amongst the Thame rubble
A new roof for an old school
A new trail takes shape in the Solukhumbu forest
Ang Doma and the Thame Nursery
You're on the ground,
with us
Field updates, project progress, and the odd story from sixty years of archives, sent only when there's something worth your inbox. Consider it the first look. For the reporting that goes deeper, that's what membership is for.
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