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, 10 April 2011

Hiking in Wales

On a glorious weekend in April we went hiking for 3 days in the Brecon beacons to try out our boots and kit (not to say our bodies and mind!). The weather was fantastic and after a first day doing the famour waterfalls route we ventured up to Pen y Fan the highest peak in South Wales (Joanna said the view would be amazing if the hills weren't in the way!). Finally, we went down to the South Wales coast for a short hike over the cliffs. All in all about 24 miles on hilly and rough terrain - the kits and bodies passed with flying colours and we all managed to stay sane and even tempered!! Nepal here we come.
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Youth Concert raises over £800

On Saturday 19 March Joanna and Kate together with their school friends and young people from the village ran a Youth Concert. We had over 20 performances to a packed village hall holding over 100 people who were all impressed and entertained.  As well as entry tickets, they sold refreshments and cakes they'd made as well as holding a charity auction. A grand total of £800 was raised and they even got mentioned in the local Mid Sussex Times - as Joanna said "I didnt think it would go as well as it did!"




Joanna and Kate drawing the raffle!
The Woodard Singers - Goodnight Sweethart
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Wednesday, 2 February 2011

It's Teacher Training Time!


Although our trek is focused on helping four of our schools to fully computerise NSA forges ahead with it's revolutionary approach in Nepal to teacher training. A team of 5 UK teachers have been designing and preparing an 8 day programme to be delivered in April and all is now complete and being printed in Kathmandu.
A total of 40 delegates from our 6 schools and the Ministry of Education will attend before our Nepalese Tutors cascade the training to a further 80 teachers in Kathmandu.
You can read more on our NewsBlog
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Thursday, 30 December 2010

Life's a fog!

Four of us did 5 miles climbing the South Downs yesterday -- wonderful views of Newhaven all around (if only the fog hadn't restricted visibility to 100 yards!!). We're planning monthly treks now starting in January and building up in length and difficulty throughout the year. Thanks again to everyone for your donations and messages of support. Happy new year.
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Friday, 17 December 2010

Thank you

A huge thank you to everyone who has donated this week following my emailing all my Associates and contacts - it's amaxzing how generous people can be in supporting a good cause. Many thanks again and best wishes for Christmas.
Gary
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Monday, 6 December 2010

Our Adventure Begins!

Well we’ve finally begun with an 8-mile hike in the South Downs which obligingly even laid on 6” of snow to add to the realism. An enjoyable morning swapping stories and plans for the coming year culminating in a turkey dinner at a Sussex hostelry – do they serve Tanglefoot in Kathmandu? Everyone vows to start fund-raising properly and we hope people will follow our preparations as we head to Wales, the Lake District and possibly even mountainous France before boarding the flight for Nepal next October.
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