Asia · Southern Asia
11 projects · 11 organizations
Turns Everest's trash into art and gets trekkers to carry pre-packed waste bags back down the mountain.
Nepal's oldest public bus operator, founded in 1962 as a cooperative, has put around 40 electric buses on Kathmandu Valley roads and now runs 28 of them as a night service.
A small US nonprofit building smokeless brick-and-steel cookstoves with rural Nepali families to replace smoky open fires.
Nepal's oldest river-conservation group, running weekly clean-ups and a 25-year-old festival to restore Kathmandu's sacred Bagmati River.
Cyclists who met monthly at Basantapur Durbar Square kept pushing until Lalitpur painted the valley's first bike lane — and the counts went up.
A Pokhara-based NGO helps Himalayan hill and mountain farmers run their own community seed banks, keeping climate-resilient local rice, taro and yam landraces from disappearing.
A nonprofit solar finance organization installs solar power for hospitals, clinics, schools, and farms across rural Nepal, replacing unreliable grid power and diesel.
A nationwide federation lets ordinary Nepali villagers govern, harvest, and protect their own local forests instead of leaving that to the state.
Three sisters in Pokhara built a free training pipeline that has turned nearly 2,000 disadvantaged Nepali women into trekking guides in a profession once reserved for men.
Community-run gauge readers and telephone chains now give flood-prone Nepali villages hours of extra warning before rivers burst their banks.
Making the fire travel a zigzag path instead of a straight line through a brick kiln burns the coal more completely — and takes a startling bite out of the smoke over Kathmandu.