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Page 1 of 2 Our Active Projects
The Deboche Nunnery
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We co-sponsored this project with The Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development in Nepal and Tibet, and with Marcia Macdonald.
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. The men who live in the monastery on top of the hill have brand new buildings with fancy paintings and solid walls and intact roofs, while the women live at the bottom of the slope in very simple (and leaky) circumstances.
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The Jonathan Peacock Memorial Fund
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This memorial fund has been set up in the honor of British climber Jonathan Peacock for the support of The Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development in Nepal and Tibet. Jonathan tragically and unexpectedly passed away while in the Mustagata Expedition Base Camp on July 13th, 2007.
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Empowering the Women of Nepal
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We provided funding for Nepali women to be tranied in the outdoor industry,
so they could then obtain jobs in the thriving tourism industry of Nepal.
EWN also manages "Himalaya House" which is for orphaned girls in Nepal.
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Pakistani Women's Climbing Camp
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Pakistan is bestowed with the largest collection of the spectacular and lofty mountains in the world. It is here in Northern Areas that three magnificent mountain ranges on Earth; Karakoram, Himalayas and Hindukush make a rendezvous.
Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), the national mountaineering and climbing federation, is engaged in promoting healthy adventure sports of mountaineering and mountain related adventure activities in the country since its establishment in 1974. Besides training a large number of its members, youth (including women) and others related with the mountain tourism, it has launched many successful mountaineering expeditions to the highest mountains including K2 as well as the world’s highest - Mt Everest (8,850m).
In the past ACP’s efforts to train and produce women climbers and mountaineers have not yielded positive results for various reasons. To address this situation, "Destination Pakistan" was launched in 2007, with the support of American Alpine Club, who shall be sending their reputed women instructors (Everest summiteers) and trainers to train interested young girls and women in the art of Rock Climbing and Mountaineering.
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Each One, Teach One
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Explore Himalaya Community Service Program has introduced the "Each One Teach One" project with the goal of providing school level education to conflict-affected children in a bid to give them a better chance to live a happy, secure and healthy life. The project is primarily focused on ensuring children’s rights to education. For this, EHCSP seeks financial support from various donors. With the funds collected from the donors, the project aims to provide a monthly scholarship of Rs 1000 to conflict-affected children through high school graduation. The money received will be directly utilized for the childrens' school fees, stationeries, outfits and other necessary educational resources.
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