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March 19, 2022

Deepak Karki : Writing and dreaming in Delhi

Deepak Karki is a man with many hats. Writing for online media, playing music, crafting poems, making videos about village life in the Himalayas are some […]
January 6, 2022

News from Naari

Greetings from Himalayan Education Foundation (HEF)! With the aim of building healthy and resilient communities in the hills, HEF partners with Himalayan Naari, a women’s self-help group […]
November 1, 2021

Building the world we want to live in

Our planet is facing a climate emergency and an unprecedented environmental crisis — which pose great risks to our wild places, native species, and our own […]
October 2, 2021

A day in the life of Mr. Mayank Mehta

Himalayan Education Foundation (HEF) works closely with Himalaya Inter College (HIC), Chaukori, in its aim to build and strengthen rural communities. For more than a decade, […]
August 24, 2021

Towards better lives and livelihoods

    Prelude: The story so far…   20 years ago in the pre-internet era, very few intrepid travelers knew about Chaukori, a sleepy hamlet in […]
July 13, 2021

My Life as a Himalayan Farmer

My name is Diwan Singh Mahara and I am 42 years old. I was born and brought up in a village called Udiyari, some 5 km […]