TARAYANA FOUNDATION
Himalayan Adventures facilitates and contributes in its small ways to help the deprived section of our society. In Bhutan we support the active work of Queen/Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck's Tarayana Foundation that helps for the upliftment of the poor people in Bhutan who live in very remote areas where there are no roads, schools and modern amneties of life. If you would like to help the deprived section of the society please visit : www.tarayanafoundation.org Tarayana Foundation is a non-profit organization working to uplift and enhance the lives of vulnerable communities in rural Bhutan. The Foundation complements and supplements the efforts of the Royal Government in poverty reduction by espousing the national goal of "special measures in support of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups as well as efforts to ensure that those who have been largely bypassed by the benefits of development are drawn more fully into the mainstream of the development process" (Bhutan 2020: A Vision for Peace. Prosperity and Happiness). The Tarayana Foundation was established in 2003 by Her Majesty the Queen, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, as a potential solution to the problems of the disadvantaged that she witnessed first hand during her many visits to the remote corners of the nation. Despite the pro-poor development strategy of the government small communities in remote areas still lag behind. The Foundation was established to help these communities achieve self sufficiency through small and targeted interventions. In 2009, we are doing a charity ride across Bhutan to help realise some fund for this noble organisation. We welcome any help from interested individuals and organisations to support this ride on motorcycles through out Bhutan. RENEW is a Bhutan non-governmental organization dedicated to the relief and empowerment of disadvantaged women and adolescent girls. RENEW stands for ‘Respect, Educate, Nurture and Empower Women’. The organization was established in 2004 by Her Majesty Queen Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck, the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). RENEW envisages being the leading institution in the nation for shaping the role of women in Bhutanese society and has as its mission "To empower disadvantaged girls and women in Bhutan and integrate them back into their own communities as independent, socially and economically productive members of the society." The main beneficiaries of RENEW are out of school adolescent girls; disadvantaged women are those women who are victims of domestic violence; women and adolescent girls who are victims of rape or sexual abuse; commercial sex workers; women and adolescent girls who are HIV-positive or victims of drug abuse. www.renew.org.bt
HIMALAYAN HELPLESS CHILD ACADEMY - DAPASHI, KATHMANDU NEPAL.
Himalayan Adventures is also actively involved with a school in finding sponsor parents for orphan children in Nepal for the Himalayan Helpless Children. If you would like to do some charity work please contact us. We need some volunteers, we can arrange the logistics to live in Nepal. There are about 160 children in this school in Kathmandu and the school is run by the help of Austrian patrons. www.nepal-entwicklungshilfe.org The site is in German. |
