Main features:

• Your travel will be a meaningful event with Charity Challenge activities.
• Helping the Charity helps you develop a greater sense of social responsibility.
• This could be an opportunity to combine the adventure travel with Charity.
• Travel package automatically covers charity. There are no extra costs involved.
• An Opportunity to experience remarkable Himalayan landscape and ancient culture.
• Life changing experience for the participants and the people helped by the Charity.

Objectives:

1. To help develop the potentials of disables in Nepal leading them to independency.
2. To help empower the families of the disable for suitable jobs opportunities through the organization of technical and vocational trainings.
3. To help the disabled establish national and international network to exchange skills, ideas and knowledge.

Charitable activities:

1. Mega Fun: Exclusively for the disable participants only
2. Charity Fun: exclusively for the non-disable participants only

Mission Statement:

As part of our commitment to responsible tourism, we have recently consented to helping the disable of Nepal benefit from the tourism related activities we organize annually mainly, trekking, climbing, mountain biking, bungee jumping and paragliding.

In order to support the cause of the disabled people in Nepal, we the Adventure Thirdpole Treks have agreed to extend our support to the Himalayan Charity (HIMCHA) a Kathmandu based non profit charitable organization which concentrates its activities on supporting the cause of disabled people.

As a leading Trekking Agency operating for more than a decade and half, we feel that a small portion of the profit we generate from our activities should also go towards helping the needy. Though there are certainly a diverse range of causes which are worth supporting, we thought the cause of the disables demand an immediate attention. We could only wish that we were able to do much more than what we have so far been able to do to help to contribute to these worthy causes, nonetheless, the efforts we have put in some of the projects in the past have resulted in some remarkable achievements specially, in the areas of providing educational opportunities to some of the children whose parents either stranded them at an early stage or were found to be unable to afford their kids education. It is a matter of great satisfaction for us to note here that the educational program run by the Purna -Laxmi Memorial Trust with the support of Adventure Thirdpole Treks has helped enroll a number of kids into the school who seem rather thankful to this opportunity provided to them. One can see the kids growing to appreciate the manifold opportunities that may be available to them once they complete their schooling.

Encouraged by the positive outcomes of Thirdpole Educational Program, we further looked into areas where the need for support was quite urgent. It was during this period that the Himalayan Charity (HIMCHA) approached us for help. Already aware of the initiatives being taken by HIMCHA in its efforts to help the disabled, we promptly responded to their call with the assurance to providing assistance that was required of us.

We feel that despite the numerous organizations which have sprung up in the last few years in Nepal with objectives of addressing the cause of rural poverty, education, environment, health and unemployment, there still lacks an effective mechanism working to address the grievances of the disabled. There are a host of organizations working to secure and protect the interest on diverse social issues but in comparison to others the disables in Nepal clearly lack an effective linkage which could lobby and advocate their needs. They are often neglected and their voices are not heard of. They are looked down on by the societies and rejected by the family. Living the life in complete dejection, they have nowhere to go and no one to turn to for help.

We often forget to appreciate the fact that disables are also a part of our society, as human beings they are also entitled to live a life of dignity. They also posses certain skills which if used can benefit the whole community. Disables can also contribute to the development of our society in many ways. All that is needed on our part is merely a better appreciation of this fact. That is all.

With these in consideration, Adventure Thirdpole Treks is taking a small initiative in partnership with HIMCHAto supporting the real cause of the Disable in Nepal by organizing various tourism related activities.