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Our Achievements
Since inception the achievements have been wide ranging. They include:
- Two hospitals and thirteen health clinics have been built.
- Over 30 schools have been built
- Over 100 students receive grants annually from the Trust for further and higher education. A programme of women’s Literacy Classes is evolving into Adult Education.
- For Sherpas, improvements in life expectancy have been achieved through programmes to control tuberculosis, smallpox and other life-threatening infectious diseases. Stillbirth and infant mortality has been reduced.
- Almost 100,000 young trees were nurtured each year and more than 1 million have been planted in 25 protected sites.
- Several Sherpas have gained degrees following training in forestry and in national park management in New Zealand and Canada.
- A three-year Primary Teacher Training project in Solu Khumbu attracted 200 teachers and is seen by HM Govt. of Nepal as a model for other rural areas. This has been so successful that it has been extended for another three years.
- A three-year Secondary Teacher Training project was grant aided by the The Community Fund with the grant matched by the UK Himalayan Trust.
- A pre-University Campus has been established in Solu district and attracts a high proportion of young women.
- The re-building of Thyangboche Monastery after a fire was helped mainly by the Himalayan Trust.
- The building of a new monastery at Salleri was achieved by the Trust matching money raised by local people, mainly by those who now live and work in Kathmandu.
- Isolated communities are helped to re-build washed away bridges and tracks; drinking water systems have been constructed.
- HM Government has been encouraged to create National Parks and has been advised on their management.
- Sherpas trained with support from the Trust are wardens of Nepal's National Parks.
- Above all, the Sherpas are being helped to overcome some of the harshness of their environment and to work for a better future, whilst retaining their independence.
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