Community Action Nepal announced as charity partner

We’re delighted to announce Community Action Nepal as an official charity partner for Base Camp Festival 2025. The charity was founded by legendary British mountaineer Doug Scott, and it’s fitting that 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Everest Southwest Face Expedition, during which Doug and Dougal Haston became the first Brits to summit the world’s highest mountain.

Community Action Nepal is a charity that works with remote communities in the Tsum-Nubri valleys of the Nepalese Himalaya. They deliver education, health and livelihood programmes to help these communities to improve their quality of life, reduce donor dependency and increase their resilience in the face of natural disasters, volatile weather conditions and global health emergencies.

CAN’s work in Nepal began in response to a spontaneous request in 1989 to help improve conditions of labour in the Himalayan trekking industry. A request soon followed to help improve village infrastructure in Ghunsa, near Salleri. As word spread, similar requests were received from other regions; slowly at first but with greater urgency as the civil war took hold throughout Nepal.

During the years of civil unrest between 1996 and 2006, CAN, along with other charities, filled a gap as the Government resources focused on the civil war. It provided direct support to schools, health posts and other neglected community projects. In the years following the civil war, Government funding was haphazard and unreliable, so CAN continued to provide funding and support to projects in the most sustainable and appropriate manner it could.

After 30 years, CAN has delivered or directly supported over 45 projects in Nepal.

For more info and to donate, go to www.canepal.org.uk