Trek Overview

This is an invitational trek in support of Nepal Schools Aid, the UK charity, who are in partnership with the management consultancy Enterprise Learning.

Taking place in October 2011, the trek takes approximately 14 days and reaches an altitude of 18,500 ft on the summit of Kala Pataar overlooking Everest Base Camp. Organisation is by Sherpa Expeditions and the trek will be led by Dr Brian Metters (NSA Trustee Chairman) who has led numerous treks in Nepal and climbed a number of 6000m+ peaks.

Our goal

Nepal, contains eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest point on Earth, but it is the poorest nation in Asia. 39% of its population are children under 14 years and it is they who are really suffering from the effects of the country’s poverty.....Our aim is to trek to the peaks of Nepal "to improve the Children of Nepal’s lives, through Education".

Nepal Schools Aid is a small, focused organisation which works very hard developing schools leadership, providing educational materials such as textbooks and exercise books, and delivering an annual teacher development programmes in Kathmandu. These are the fundamentals to helping children get the opportunity to a brighter future, one which is not begging, malnutrition or worse.

We plan to raise a minimum of £10,000 for the charity which will be spent on computerising 1-2 of our schools in Kathmandu. We have four of our seven schools ready for such development, so £40,000 is the ultimate summit!

In our Basics Programme to our 7 schools in Kathmandu you might like to know what a typical donation buys:



  • £25 buys 200 exercise books, enough for 8 children for a whole year

  • £35 buys 8 school bags

  • £50 buys 25 textbooks to be shared by a number of classes

  • £100 pays a teacher's salary for one month

    To make a donation please click on the trekker of your "choice" on the left and you will be taken to our secure donations site where you can complete your payment.

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Just Arrived !

So we arrived in Kathmandu about 5 hours ago and already experienced quite a lot! Managed to find our hotel bus amongst all the taxi drivers trying to get us to chose them, however we had no clue what they were saying! We then travelled to our hotel which is in the region called Lalitpur and all the drivers are crazy...most drive in the middle of the road just seem to force their way through the traffic which is one way of doing it! Our hotel is lovely, really pretty and in such a good location...there's even a swimming pool :D and our room is very nice too, we even have a TV (but not too sure about nepalese programmes!) There has also just been an earthquake which shook the whole building and as we are on the top floor we decided to stay under a door frame until it passed...still quite scary! Hope they don't happen too often. Tomorrow we are visiting the schools where we will be teaching and just generally looking round Kathmandu so we get familiar with the place...it's complete chaos! We know where some of the good restaurants are so we will get some dinner and then head off to bed as we only got 2 hours sleep last night.

We are keeping a diary of our trip on the following link: Joanna and Kate's Blog
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Monday, 12 September 2011

Daniel Richardson's sponsored cycle

A big thank you to Daniel Richardson who cycled around Kileder Lake on 4th September to raise £76 for our Trek. Daniel (with his Dad accompanying him) covered 26 miles in a tiring day.

Well done Daniel (and Dad!)

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Tuesday, 6 September 2011

More fund-raising

On Friday 2nd September Johanna Sheehan of Sound Touch hosted a wonderful evening of sound meditation with gongs and Tibetan bowls in her yurt. The effect was to still the mind, energise the body and nurture the spirit. She kindly donated all proceedings to Nepal Schools Aid. Everyone who came had a wonderful evening and all felt the benefit.
Thank you Johanna for your kind support.  http://www.soundtouchforlife.com/


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Marion says thank you to....

Saathi Indian restaurant
28 Priestpopple
Hexham
01434 603509
 for supporting Nepal Schools Aid. The curry night was a great success and everyone had a fun evening. The food and company were great. Their support is greatly appreciated.
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What do the Cotswolds and the Himalayas have in common?

The answer is probably not much but we spent a great weekend hiking on the Cotswold escarpments, joined by John's friend Andy. We're getting there.......

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