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Active Projects
Ausangate Health Clinic
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Peru: we are ready to build our first clinic in Peru! The clinic will be built in the low area of the Ausangate mountain range. This area has four villages, with a total population of 3,000 to 4,000 people.
Funding Need: $6,000 USD
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Aynikuy
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Peru: "Aynikuy", in Quechua, means to help each other or to cooperate. Aynikuy is also the name of The Mountain Fund's new microfinance program in Peru. Our goal is to provide small loans to twenty family businesses.
Funding Need: $4,800 USD
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Benefit El Salvador
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El Salvador: This is a fundraising project to benefit the people of Zaragoza, El Salvador. Our purpose is to contribute to the supply of medical equipment and resources to the public healthcare clinic that serves Zaragoza, and its surrounding community. This clinic serves a population of approximately 35,000 people.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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The Deboche Nunnery Restoration Project
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This project involves restoring the Pema Choling Buddhist women’s convent, also known as the Deboche Convent (also known as the Deboche Nunnery, Debouche Convent or Debouche Monastery), where 20 impoverished nuns live in a leaky old convent. The building is falling down, and many tourists walk past and never consider it. The nunnery was built in 1928 and it has had little or no maintenance since. The convent is the “sister-monastery” to the famous Thyangboche monastery on top of the hill between beautiful Deboche and Namche, along the Everest basecamp trek.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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Gosaikunda Women's Welfare Group
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Nepal: The Women’s Welfare Group represents perhaps the best hope for social development and protection of the area around both Gosaikunda and parts of Langtang. Working as the PTA, Wildlife Protection Group, Trekking Trail Clean Up Crew, Cultural Preservation Organization and the Village Welfare Organization. Our goal is to help the Trekking Trail Clean Up Crew with their mission.
Funding Need: $3,000 USD
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Kathmandu Women's Safe House
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Nepal: This safe house is a place for married and unmarried women and their children to escape abuse and find refuge. We offer a secure environment for these women to recover and gain knowledge to become self sufficient.
Funding Need: $7,500 USD
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The Langtang Area Porter Support Program
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Helping clothe the porters of the Langtang Trail in Nepal.
Funding Need: $3,000 USD
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The Gerard McDonnell Memorial Fund
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Pakistan: The Gerard McDonnell Memorial Fund provides training in first aid and safe climbing technique for high altitude porters in the Karakorum. A component of the fund is sponsorship for the children of Jehan Baig, Karim Meherban, Jumic Bhote and Pasang Bhote , four high altitude porters who perished on K2 in 2008.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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The Mosqoy Foundation
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Peru: The Mosqoy Foundation is a charitable organization working to bridge cross-cultural gaps between North America and Peru. Our goal is to provide one year of housing and tuition for five students.
Funding Need: $2,400 USD
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Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development in Nepal & Tibet
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Nepal: The establishment of Mount Everest Foundation for sustainable Development (MEF/NEPAL) is a significant step towards achieving the goals of peace, unity, social amity, international co-operation and fraternity free from racial, ethnic linguistic or religious discrimination. The Mount Everest Foundation believes in the motto of "World is a Family."
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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North East India Project
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India: Working along side the villages of North East India to assist and support in the areas of healthcare, education, water resource, and economic development, while preserving their culture and basic way of life.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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Orphan Help Center - Nepal
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Nepal: Established in August 2004, the orphanage cares for Nepalese village children whose parents have either passed away, disappeared or are too poor to feed and educate them. At this time, the orphanage is home to 10 children.
In a country where there is no social security and the political situation is highly controversial, OHC provides a unique opportunity for orphans to be educated at a private school and to be loved and cared for in a small, family-like environment.
Funding Need: $3,000 USD
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Q'eros Music Documentary
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Peru: The Q’eros are a Quechua-speaking people who live high in the Andes Mountains of southeast Perú. This documentary, created by Holly Wissler, is based on Hatun Q’eros, the largest and most remote of the Q’eros’ communities. Our goals are to help Holly document Q’eros’ musical rituals for the Q’eros community; to educate a larger audience; and ultimately to promote respect for indigenous cultures.
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Rural Assistance Nepal
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Rural Assistance Nepal (R A N) was set up to help advance education and to assist in the provision of healthcare in the rural areas of Nepal. Friends are supporting the salaries of teachers at two schools, the salary of a midwife at a healthpost and have helped to buy land (for building more classrooms) and school materials for schools in two villages in Dolaka and Solukhumbu.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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Rasuwa District Healthcare
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If you’ve followed our newsletters, you know that we’ve had a plan in place since 2001 to have a complete healthcare system in the Rasuwa District of Nepal. Thanks to all of your continued support, that day is nearly here!
Our new hospital is now established in the village of Kalikastan, and serves as anchor. This paired with our three additional health clinic-outposts, will create a network that reaches nearly all of the 44,000 inhabitants of the Rasuwa District.
Funding Need: $32,000 USD
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Service Trek Members Foundation
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We have set up this fund after coming back from an amazing and humbling trip to visit the villagers of Patale in a remote region of Nepal near Mt. Everest. There are no roads to Patale and it takes an airplane ride from Khatmandu and then a three day hike to reach it. The purpose of our trip was to replenish the medical supplies for the health post in the village and also to visit two schools in the area.
Funding Need: $11,200 USD
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Thulo Syabru Monastery Restoration
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Nepal: This monastery was built 350 years all by one man, Garwang Rinpoche. It took him 12 years to build it. It sits a little way off from the village proper so in the past vandals have taken some of the statues and documents. This project will repair the monastery and protect it for future generations.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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Thulo Syabru School Restoration
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Nepal: The school restoration project is really an incredible story. This school sat on ground that was about fifteen feet higher than surrounding buildings. As a result, the soil was continuously eroding away from
the structure and following every rainy season the villagers had to work hard to
reverse the erosion damage. In a display of unbelievable tenacity, the village raised
the money for a new school then took apart the old school stone by stone and
removed fifteen feet of earth to create a level site on which to build a new
school.
Funding Need: $4,000 USD
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Trek4Good: Moving Medical Camps
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Global: Trek4Good is a volunteer program of The Mountain Fund. This program was started in order to address the need of volunteers to both see the country and contribute their time. Every Moving Medical Camp has a volunteer component built in, and is organized to raise funds for the projects we support. Our goal is to raise funds for supplies and medication for our treks.
Funding Need: $3,000 USD
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The Women's Foundation of Nepal
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WFN is a non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1988 by a group of Napalese professional women who understood dignity, shared a deep sense of social responsibility, and had a strong desire to address the problems of women in Nepal. The principles which animated the formation of WFN still guide its work today.
Funding Need: $5,000 USD
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