Nepal Village Project

On 25th April 2015 a catastrophic earthquake hit Nepal, causing devastation from Kathmandu to remote and isolated villages in the mountains. The devastation in the Nuwakot district was one of the worst areas affected, with almost 1000 fatalities and 1311 injured. In addition, it is estimated that 50% of the total population of the district was severely affected with 3000 homes made uninhabitable and a further 1500 severely damaged.

Mountain Village in Nepal

THE PROJECT

The Support Rural Nepal (SRN) project aims to help in rebuilding this community with sustainable and long-term resettlement. Approximately 430 houses have been designed using environmental and cost effective methods to safeguard from future quakes while providing potential to generate income for the inhabitants through home-stays and promotion of eco-tourism.

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US

Discover Adventure has been trekking in Nepal for over 15 years, bringing sustainable tourism to the region by working with local guides and staying in teahouses and homestays where possible. We began operating challenges in Nepal in 2001, with the launch of our iconic Everest Base Camp trek and by 2006, we were developing routes into the Annapurna’s.

Over this time we have developed many close friendships with our Nepalese colleagues - those whom we work with to operate our challenges, who help guide us through the trek and host us in their homes en-route. This is why we and a great many of our previous participants were so moved to support the re-build effort following the 2015 earthquake.

Additionally, at the time of the earthquake one of our challenge leaders , Jo Bradshaw, was embarking on her own adventure, to climb to the summit of Mount Everest and was at Camp 2 when the earthquake struck. This put an end to her expedition and resulted in the loss of two of her Sherpa team. In 2016, she resumed her challenge; to read about her first hand experience and how it impacted her determination to succeed, read our interview here.

Langtang Range

Rebuilding Nuwakot Village

ACTIONS

In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, Discover Adventure made a donation with each booking made on our challenges in Nepal, to the Support Rural Nepal project and sent out tents to the severely affected Langtang region. Together with the generous donations from our participants, we have been able to send over £5000 to the project to aid the re-building of the region.

With your help we would like to continue this valuable work for the sustained re-building and development of Nuwakot village into a definitive heritage village. To do this, in July 2015, we launched our Nepal LangtangTrek - specifically designed to give the opportunity to our participants to actively contribute to the re-build effort. On this challenge, not only can participants fundraise for their own worthy causes, but after a completing an amazing trek challenge in the stunning Langtang valley, you'll spend some time actually working alongside the Nepalese villages in the rebuilding operation.

Our first challenge group completed this trek in March 2017; their donations and work on the project has enabled the walls of a school classroom in Nuwakot to be rebuilt.

To find out more about this challenge and book your place on our next departure, please click the button below;

VIEW THE NEPAL PROJECT TREK

YOUR DONATIONS

We are pleased to be able to offer you the opportunity to support this project. You can do this at the time of booking any open challenge or, if preferred you can contact us directly to make a donation.

Minimum donations online are set at £10.00, however if you would like to donate more, please do contact us. All donations made will go directly towards the cost of much needed material to rebuild the homes and schools in the community through the Support Rural Nepal project.

Details on how the invaluable and generous contributions have been utilised can be found by following SRN’s Facebook page at: Support Rural Nepal

New home in Nuwakot village

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THE PROJECT

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US

ACTIONS

YOUR DONATIONS