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Clean drinking water supply project

Computers for schools

Royal Mountain Travel has helped
in strengthening sustainable local
economic development in Panauti,
Bungamati and Lubhu through
home stay programs for visitors. The
project has empowered 20 low-income
households in these rural areas by
giving them the training and materials
they need to start and run their own
bedandbreakfastbusinesses.Underthe
home stay project, local households,
after suitable training, have improved
standards required to host guests and
have been successful in raising revenue
to not only support their families but
also to run handicraft businesses.There
has been a marked decrease in rural
unemployment in these areas after the
commencement of our programs.

Some rural areas in the Chitwan and
Annapurna trekking regions were
found to be lacking in clean drinking
water supplies due to the drying up
of underground water sources and
streams. Untimely rains and lack of
funds in the local village development
committeeshadfurtheraggravatedthe
problem, a result of which, the locals as
well as private and public organizations
were facing a lot of hardship. As a
step towards resolving the water crisis,
Royal Mountain Travel sponsored the
supply of clean drinking water to local
primary schools in Chitwan and on the
Annapurna trekking route

RoyalMountainTravelhasprovided
Garimudi Secondary School with
some computers and is working
with Rural Assistance Nepal (RAN),
a UK charity in promoting help to
schoolsbyencouragingitsassociates.
Koningaap & Shoestring, a Dutch
travelcompanyhasalreadydonated
computerstotwosecondaryschools,
helped with school furniture at a
primary school and has provided
books and material for setting up a
school library in a small community
school in Rukkum, a remote and
very poor area in Nepal.

Computersforschools:BangeswalschoolinPyuthan

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Royal MountainTravel has supported
a skilled teacher for Kokar Singh
Primary School at Panglang village
development committee close to the
Nepal-Tibet Friendship Highway.

Royal Mountain Travel contributes
USD 5 earned from every person
booked to run its ‘responsibletravel’ related projects.

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Teacher support project

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Home stay project

Shopping for books: new school library

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