Projects

Himalayan Healers - Healing Arts School for Untouchable Caste

The Himalayan Healers in Kathmandu, Nepal, is a Healing Arts School, Community Clinic, and Eco-Friendly Cultural Retreat working to preserve the rich history of healing and energy work in the Himalayas, specifically for the benefit of Sponsored Students from the Untouchable castes< of Nepal. ... >>More information...

Concert by Robin Tamang of "Robin n Looza" - Fundraising Event and HIV/AIDS and Drugs Awareness Campaign for BIJAM (Student Awareness Forum) Drug Drop-In Centers in Birgunj, Nepal

With the assistance of Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Martha Mummey, BIJAM opened the first bus-park drop-in center in Nepal. BIJAM is staffed by a group of committed, volunteer college-age students and provides peer-education and outreach to prostitutes, drug-addicts and drug-users, truck-drivers, rickshaw-drivers, and students. The success of their operations is widespread, and respected - their bus-park drop-in center served as the model for other project throughout Nepal. >>More information...

Youth Community Center (YCC) ** Project Completed **

In the first phase of operations YCC was basically the creation of a volunteer Nepali “Americorps” for the youth and students of the city, and the institutionalization of this as an effective bridge between City Hall and the local community governments.

Here’s what we’re working on… >>More information...

Rickshaw Micro-Credit Project

The vast majority of rickshaw drivers rent their rickshaw from day-to-day, living hand-to-mouth on each day’s generated income, while at the same time paying a daily fee to their slum lords for use of the rickshaw. This daily rental fee prevents them from ever getting ahead.

It’s a feudalistic system of human exploitation that has no place in our world today.

Simply put, we’d like to help set them free… >>More information...

Immediate. Direct. Effective.
Nepal Direct Effects.