ABOUT US

Mission Statement

The mission of Himalayan HealthCare is to provide sustainable development programs in remote/impoverished areas of Nepal, focusing on gender-sensitive primary healthcare and rights, community education, income generation and disaster preparedness and response.

Himalayan HealthCare is a small nonprofit organization founded in 1992 that focuses on grass roots interventions to directly impact Nepalis living in impoverished and remote mountain areas of Nepal. Our board of directors all serve on a volunteer basis, and the only paid staff are Nepalis working on the ground. The organization has many international medical professionals and students who serve as volunteers.

Himalayan HealthCare, helping those in need in the villages of Nepal

Our goal has always been to help the people in Nepal to help themselves. We seek to make a lasting impact on the lives of the people we serve by providing sustainable development programs that build local capacity. We started with healthcare needs in the remote mountain village of Tipling, and over time our programs have expanded to other villages and beyond healthcare to include  gender-sensitive primary healthcare, women’s empowerment, community education and income generation. We opened a small commmunity hospital in 1994 in the town of Ilam in eastern Nepal, serving a region of 250,000 people. The hospital provides a full array of medical services previously unavailable in this region. It is soon being handed over.Our family of supporters provide helps in many ways, including donations of time, services, goods and money. We organize medical treks for healthcare professionals and others to remote villages to provide multi-day clinics. We hope you will consider this or other opportunites to support HHC and see Nepal. We are qualified as a 501(c)(3) organization, so donations are tax-deductible. Our organization prides itself on being small and efficient; donations made through HHC go to people in Nepal who need this support. HHC’s international staff are all volunteers. HHC has no political or religious affiliations.The director of our Nepali operations is Sharad (Anil) Parajuli, who works full-time on HHC activities. In 2001 Anil won recognition for his work with HHC by being declared an Ashoka Fellow. In October 2004 he was Boss Business Excellence Award’s Social Entreprenuer of the Year 2003-2004. He has also been named as one of the top fifty personalities in Nepal for four consecutive years between 2004-2007 by The Boss magazine. The International President of HHC is Dr. David Johnson, MD. Dr. Johnson is supported by numerous volunteers, from both medical and other fields.

Hearts In The Himalayas

Current HHC Programs and Projects in Rural Nepal

OVERVIEW OF OUR WORK and PARTNERSHIPS

HHC has partnered with Chao Foundation and Transparent Fish Fund and others as well as local municipalities in bringing health care to women and children in rural Nepal that have little services. HHC helps train government women health providers to tackle safe childbirth to serious gynecological problems in remote rural Nepal. Annually over 70 women health providers from many village health posts in rural municipalities receive various vital trainings like Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA), rural obstetrical ultrasound, cervical cancer screening  (VIA), sexually transmitted infection (STI), hands-on gynecological training, adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH), voluntary family planning through implants, etc. 

HHC also works directly with rural municipalities in strengthening their government run child nutrition programs. We have helped screen thousands of children between the critical ages of six months and five years in Rubi Valley and Benighat Rorang Rural Municipalities in the Dhading District as well as several wards of Rapti Municipality where the Chepang community live. Hundreds of children have been successfully treated with therapeutic and supplemental foods in partnership with the municipalities as we train local providers in managing and executing a comprehensive child nutrition program in their municipalities. We have been invited to help with other municipalities as new partners to execute our effective program like the Gajuri Rural Municipality in the Dhading District.    

HHC also works with the Rubi Valley RM in helping with child education through stipend for children of families who have little means, help schools with infrastructure, teacher training, equipment or special tutoring for tenth grade students who face the challenging S.E.E. national exams.

HHC also works with farmers in Rubi Valley through the HHC Farming Center in Sertung to help with training and supplies for vegetables, fruits, tea, mushroom, potato, etc. HHC has partnered with Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation to help women farmers with these and other income projects like carpet weaving, mustard oil production, beautician salon and nail craft business, bakery business, etc. HHC will also working to help create links and a market for the farm produces of Rubi Valley.         

HHC also helps build permanent toilet with septic tanks in Rubi Valley and now Benighat Rorang where once there was no toilet. We have built over 1300 toilets in partnership with the toilet recipients and the municipality. This public health program ensures communities from serious gastrointestinal diseases and safety from child malnutrition.              

 

HOW HHC IS HELPING

HHC works directly with it’s rural municipal partners of Dhading, Chitwan, Sindhuli and other district in central Nepal in support thousands of community members in health care, education and income generation.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

HHC will continue to reach out to other partners as well. Because of our long history working in all areas of Nepal, and our extensive government and community contacts, HHC can mobilize quickly and effectively. We hope to serve many communities in the near future.

Every contribution, no matter how small, can help us.
· $10 can help us with child tiffin for one month or copybooks and stationary;
· $20 allows us to provide shoes/uniform for a child;
· $50 helps a patient with medicines for three months 
· $100 helps a patient with medicines for six months;
· $200 helps a family with a permanent toilet with septic tank
· $500 supports a training for woman health provider who will serve her community
· $1000 and above can help us purchase critical medical equipment or handheld instruments for rural health posts

You can make your tax-deductible donation online at https://www.himalayanhealthcare.org/donate

or send a check payable to “Himalayan HealthCare” to:

Himalayan HealthCare, 189 Bidwell Parkway, Buffalo , N.Y. 14222