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Tashi Delek!

Welcome to AHF's Project Central.

Looking forward to a bright future.

Instead of what might have been.  Stop Girl Trafficking makes it possible.

600 years and still going strong.

Local restorers hard at work in Mustang, Nepal.

It's not all studying at Manjushree School.

Tibetan kids in this Pokhara settlement do get time to play too!

A new leg, a new life.

Just one of the miracles at the Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children.

Clean water is no longer a dream

High up on the Tibetan plateau.

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What We Do

Education

Healthcare

Preserving Culture

Tibetans

Sherpas and Everest

Stop Girl Trafficking

Featured Projects

Stop Girl Trafficking

In rural Nepal, a poor girl is at great risk of being lured or sold into bondage.  AHF’s Stop Girl Trafficking program is putting an end to this.  10,000 girls have been saved so far.  Read more.

Mending bones and healing lives

At the Hospital and Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children, kids get the care they need to walk again, and gain a whole new life in the process.  Read more.

Pulling the ancient kingdom back from the brink

Upper Mustang Nepal, was once a crumbling artifact of its former glory.  Now thanks to AHF’s work, the ancient “Kingdom of Lo” shines again.  Read more.

Report from the Field

Tibetan Veterans in exile

Their fighting days may be long over, but these stalwart elders still recall with pride their service in the Indian Special Frontier Force and, before that, their own resistance movement.

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National Geographic Books, October 2006

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From the Archives

While Norbu celebrated the 25th aniversary of his Everest expedition in the UK, we were digging up pictures from it.

Check out a slideshow of HRDC over the years.

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