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Himalayan Trust UK
1st March 2025

A Legacy of Care: Naumati Limbu’s Journey as Ikhabu’s Best FCHV

Naumati Limbu, a 58-year-old Female Community Health Volunteer (FCHV) from Ikhabu, Ward 4 of Phaktanglung Rural Municipality, has been a pillar of her community’s healthcare for over 20 years. Her selfless service, often unrecognised, was recently celebrated when she was awarded the title of “Best FCHV” among 18 volunteers in Ikhabu. This recognition was made...
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1st March 2025

From Silence to Smiles: Transforming Classrooms in Nepal

During our last field visit in November, as we trekked between schools, Rajendra Pant—REED Nepal’s dedicated field coordinator—reminded us of the remarkable transformation we’ve helped bring to the region. Having worked in these schools since 2010, Rajendra has seen first-hand how much has changed. The most significant shifts? A new approach to teaching, greater parental...
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26th February 2025

Extract from George Band’s Kangchenjunga’s diary – 1955

The successful ascent of Mt Everest in 1953 inspired more successful climbs of “eight-thousanders”. Mt Kangchenjunga was successfully sumitted by climbers Joe Brown and George Band as part of the British expedition led by Charles Evans in 1955. Read more from George Band’s diary and find out how this first climb links in with the...
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10th June 2024

Hillary Memorial Lecture – Mallory & Irvine 100 years on

8th June 2024 had been a date fixed in the events diary of the Royal Geographical Society for quite some while. Years, in fact. In the knowledge that this was the exact centenary of the disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine on Everest, still ‘going strong for the top’, leaving us all wondering...
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3rd April 2024

Community Health Awareness Programme in Lelep

The health team have now completed their Community Health Awareness Programme in Lelep, which has been going on for the past two years. The sessions are run by Female Community Health Volunteers (“FCHV”) and a total of 1,678 participants, mainly women (but some men!) attended the sessions. Most of the sessions are aimed at improving...
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14th January 2024

Looking for a Joint Health Programme Trustee

Dr Debbie Eklund, a retired Public Health consultant, who has served as a Trustee since 2013 and initiated the health project has now retired from her role as Joint Health Programme Lead at the Trust. We have much to thank Debbie for – Dr Eklund formed a partnership with Action for Nepal( AfN,) an NGO...
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28th May 2023

We are looking for new Trustees

The Himalayan Trust UK has been working since 1989 to help the mountain people of Nepal. We strive to improve health and education in the mountainous regions of Northeastern Nepal, particularly in the Taplejung region. We still hold to the guiding principles laid down by Sir Edmund Hillary when he founded the first Himalayan Trust...
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20th December 2022

Lunchboxes – A Solution to a Problem

We may not have the fondest memories of our school lunches when we were children.  I suspect, however, that they were more important to the rhythm of our day than we remember.  When a group of Trustees travelled to the Taplejung District of Nepal in 2018, a number of the schools we visited asked if...
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28th November 2022

Transforming Health in Yamphudin

The story of Yamphudin is one of remarkable change. Our health team were met with very poor, remote mountain villagers desperate for our help during our first visit in 2015. That first visit resulted in a five year successful partnership between the community, Action For Nepal and ourselves. Together we transformed the village’s health knowledge,...
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20th December 2020

Why it is time to give back to Nepal

Reasons why it is time to give back to the people in the remote mountain communities of Nepal in these times of COVID-19. Right now, people in Nepal are feeling the devastating effects of coronavirus on their health, their children’s education and their livelihoods. As is so often the case, the people hit hardest are...
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Please make out to “Himalayan Trust UK”
and post together with your GiftAid Declaration to:

Kate Wolstenholme,
Hon. Treasurer,
62 Riversdale Road,
London N5 2JZ

If you are a UK taxpayer then by donating under the GiftAid scheme the Himalayan Trust UK will benefit further.

Download the GiftAid Declaration to enable us to claim an additional 25% of your donation free of charge.

Forms can be emailed to our Treasurer at treasurer@himalayantrust.co.uk

How Your Support Can Help

The communities of Taplejung will appreciate any support you feel able to give.

Please consider to set-up a regular payment scheme. Click the amounts below to find out how your donations make a difference.

£20 will support
£50 will support
£100 will support
£1,000+ will support
  • Warm blanket for mother and baby
  • Foot suction pump to clear babies’ breathing
  • 25 Reading books
  • Stationery for one child for a year
  • Stretcher
  • Nebuliser to help breathing
  • Classroom furniture set for 3
  • Week of teacher training
  • Emergency transport for 2 patients
  • An additional teacher for 2 weeks
  • Equipment for a birthing centre including delivery bed, post natal care bed and oxygen supply
  • 2 school laptops
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