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NEIP & Smile Train help 2 more Indian children with cleft palates

One of our projects, The North East India Project, has recently partnered with Smile Train, a non-profit helping children with cleft palates.According to the Smile Train: "Every year 35,000 children in ...

created by mtnfund | 40 wks ago | updated 39 wks ago
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Zaragoza Project to provide health care in rural El Salvador | Photo 02

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Zaragoza Project to provide health care in rural El Salvador

In June of 2008, I spent five weeks in El Salvador and was fortunate to have the opportunity to volunteer in a local health care clinic. The Zaragosa Clinic is just shy of an hour’s bus ride inland from the...

created by mtnfund | 48 wks ago
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Health, education, and water in Nagaland, India

The Indian state of Nagaland spreads over an area of 16,527 square kilometers, bordered by Assam, to the west and north, and Burma, to the east. Its population resides mainly in rural areas. Kohima, its...

created by mtnfund | 48 wks ago | updated 46 wks ago
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Mountain Fund Sew4Good event on National Day of Service

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is also the US National Day of Service. According to MLKDay.gov, more than 13,000 people chose to celebrate by volunteering, doubling last year's number. The Mountain Fund had its...

created by mtnfund | 49 wks ago | updated 49 wks ago
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Rasuwa District Health Care :: Completing the System in SW Nepal

Located a few kilometers from the border with Tibet, the Rasuwa District is home to dozens of small Tamang Villages. The Tamang are believed to have migrated from Mongolia via Tibet hundreds of years ago and...

created by mtnfund | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago
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9-year-old rock climber's act of kindness

This is a piece of news which, as a non-profit organization, really means a lot to us. Timmy Dolan, a 9-year-old from Boulder, CO, found The Mountain Fund in an internet search. Timmy is a competitor in the...

opinion by mtnfund | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago
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Microfinance in Cusco, Peru :: The Aynikuy Program 2009

Of the 300,000 people in Peru, 37.7% live on less than US$1 per day. The typical salary in Peru is about $150 per month. Families cannot live on so little income, so many families have started very small...

created by mtnfund | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago
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Our New Health Clinic :: Ausangate, Peru

Ausangate, PERU - The Mountain Fund is building a new, lost-cost health care clinic. Access to health care, while improving in many areas, is still limited in many parts of Peru. This is especially true...

created by mtnfund | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago
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Mountain Fund Women's Safe House - Kathmandu - Inside

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New Safe House for Women :: Kathmandu, Nepal

In Kathmandu, Nepal, many married and some unmarried women are abused on a daily basis. A recent Foreign Policy news report, dated May 2008, has published a list of "The Worst Places to be a Woman," where...

created by mtnfund | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago
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The Gho-Ngag Dhargye Mangche Gompa Monastery-Photo-01

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Monastery Resoration Project :: Thulo Syabru, Nepal

The Gho-Ngag Dhargye Mangche Gompa Monastery was built 350 years ago by solely one man: Garwang Rinpoche. It took him 12 years to build it. It sits a little ways off from the village proper of Thulo Syabru, Nepal,...

created by mtnfund | 51 wks ago | updated 51 wks ago
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August 2008: Healthcare update from Nepal

created by mtnfund | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Volunteer in Nepal

If you've travelled to Nepal, and fallen in love with its people, and have a desire to help them, now you can. The Mountain Fund has a visitor center in Kathmandu that assists people in finding an...

created by mtnfund | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Help the Children of Nepal

The Social Development Centre Nepal has been in effect since 2006. It's a small home for orphans, and half-orphans (single parent invalid or not capable of caring for the child), located in the Kathmandu...

created by mtnfund | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Moving Mountains Magazine

Moving Mountains is a new internet-based magazine which will provide outdoor lovers and the outdoor industry with comprehensive print and online stories about the activities of, events/projects sponsored by, and news and people associated with nonprofits that operate in...

created by mtnfund | 1 year ago
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Moving Mountains in Nepal

The Mountain Fund's "Moving Medical Camp", in Kathmandu, Nepal. October 2007: Greetings from Kathmandu. The rainy season has gone on about a week longer than it should so it is hot in Kathmandu...

created by mtnfund | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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