🇳🇵Nepal

Turns Everest's trash into art and gets trekkers to carry pre-packed waste bags back down the mountain.

A small US nonprofit building smokeless brick-and-steel cookstoves with rural Nepali families to replace smoky open fires.

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.

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.