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Are you a passionate runner or walker who would like to join our team and fundraise to help remote communities high in the Himalayas?

If you’d like to challenge yourself, get fit and make a difference this year, or if you’ve already signed up to take part in a running event, we’d love to have you on our team!

This year’s team will raise funds to improve neo-natal and maternity health for the community in the remote village of Bung in the mountainous Solukhumbu region.

So find your challenge, join our running team.

Every dollar you raise through your running challenge will give new babies and mums in Nepal a chance at a better future.

All the help you need

Whatever your event, whatever your fundraising goal, we’ll support you to make the fundraising as easy and fun as possible.

We’ll provide you with:

  • Training guides
  • Fundraising ideas, including a step-by-step guide, fundraising email templates, and social media graphics and posts
  • A personalised online fundraising page
  • A Himalayan Trust running t-shirt
  • Team training run (for the Auckland Marathon)
  • Regular updates about our work
  • Plus, raise over $1,500 and we’ll refund your entry fee!
    (Entry fees will be refunded up to a maximum of $200 and can only be refunded to a New Zealand bank account.)

Join our team now

Find your challenge

Over the last three years, 56 amazing supporters have run a marathon or taken on a personal challenge to raise funds to help communities in the remote Everest region of Nepal.

Our running team have raised an incredible $70,000 by taking part in events in Auckland, Wellington, Aoraki Mt Cook, Seoul and even the awe-inspiring Everest Marathon.

Why not get together a group of friends to train and fundraise together?

Below are some of the many events happening around New Zealand over the next few months. Find your challenge and join our team!

Join the team

Running for new mums and babies in remote Nepal

This year, our runners and walkers will be raising funds for the Bung Health Project.

Neo-natal mortality rates in the mountainous regions of Nepal are significantly higher than the national average, and the remote village of Bung is no exception. 

The Bung Health Project is a community-based programme to improve neo-natal and maternity health in the area by training local health workers, providing equipment such as childbirth delivery sets, and increasing health awareness amongst the villagers.

Having access to good local care is vital for this community, but the Bung health post is currently under-resourced. Without the Bung health post, the only option for villagers in need of urgent care, including expectant mothers, is a two-day walk along steep mountain tracks to the nearest hospital.

Every dollar you raise through your running challenge will help give new babies and their mothers a better future.

Find out more about the Bung Health Improvement Project

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