Leave the trail better than you found it.

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A sustainability and philanthropy non-profit working across Nepal's trails, towns and communities.

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Volunteering & partnerships

Location

Kathmandu, Nepal

Locally Owned

Every programme is handed to a local partner who owns it after we leave.

" A programme that ends when we leave was never a programme. Every clean-up has a local waste route. Every plantation has a community that owns the saplings. "

Footprint Foundation, Kathmandu

Practical, Local, Repeated

Our Programmes

Carry it out, tread lightly, spend locally, made standard rather than exceptional.
Volunteer-run litter removal, with everything we collect sorted and routed into a real disposal chain.
Discarded material turned into products worth buying, and income worth earning.
Planting with local partners who stay responsible for the saplings long after planting day.

The physical risks of the job are documented. The mental health cost is almost entirely undiscussed.

Not just present but leading, in the clean-up crews, the crafts workshops, and the community groups that own the plantations.

There is no rubbish collection at altitude and no route out except on someone’s back. We run volunteer clean-ups in Nepal’s outdoor destinations and deal properly with what comes off the hill.
Volunteers carrying clean-up bags on the trail

A porter carries loads at altitude for a season’s wage, then goes home to months without income. The physical risks are documented; the mental health cost is almost entirely undiscussed.

Porter carrying a load through the Himalaya

Planting a tree is easy. Keeping it alive for five years is the entire job, so nothing goes in the ground without a local partner responsible for it afterwards.

Volunteer holding a sapling

About

Our mission is to leave landscapes cleaner and the people who work in them better off.

The environmental cost of tourism in Nepal and the human cost of tourism in Nepal are the same problem, and almost nobody treats them that way. We work across both.

Local Ownership

Local partners keep the work going long after the volunteers go home.

Our Work in Numbers

Repetition

One clean-up every month for three years beats one national campaign for one week.

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