All net proceeds from the handicraft sales are used to fund primary health care, medical and educational projects, giving to those involved in the production process a sense of pride that comes by helping and sustaining many others, in even greater need than themselves.
Income Generation

HHC has provided seed money and training for several income generation projects since 1993. We have employed approaches to income generation that take advantage of both individual entrepreneurial initiative and community responsibility and support. This latter approach, first developed by the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, has been widely praised as a low risk way of enabling the poor, particularly women, to improve their families' lives. One of our first projects focused on the Kami, the blacksmiths, who are the most economically deprived and socially isolated ethnic group in all of Nepal. In 1993, HHC provided the first lot of iron and aluminum for the production and sale of Khukuri (Ghurka knives). Over time, we came to embrace a larger goal of creating self-reliance and a spirit of freedom amongst the neo-literate women in the Dhading region. One of HHC's most important income generation activities has been to promote the international sale of locally manufactured handicrafts under the name Jeevankala. This initiative, now over ten years old, has allowed approximately hundreds of families to earn living wages. JeevanKala is also a member of the Fair Trade Federation. The net proceeds from all sales of JeevanKala goods go toward funding for HHC's other charitable programs in Nepal. Recent income generation initiatives have also included sustainable cardamom spice and also vegetable and fruit farming.
Hearts in the Himalayas
Support HHC's 'One Home One Toilet' Campaign in Remote Ruby Valley
Himalayan HealthCare continues to build permanent toilets in partnership with recipients in remote Ruby Valley Rural Municipality near the Ganesh Himal mountains where there were none. This has reduced the rate of diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid and many other fly-borne diseases thus preventing deaths of children, women and elders while also keeping the villages clean. We have built over 700 toilets serving over 3500 community members directly and tens of thousands indirectly. We need to help build 500 more. Every dollar counts.
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