Committed to averting disaster on a Himalayan scale by enabling local communities adapt to their rapidly changing environment.
The Glacier Trust provides education and expertise through locally based organisations, our Partners, to enable communities to understand the problems that climate change presents and how to implement solutions.
Our Strategy
1. The Problems
You may have heard about glaciers melting in the Himalayas because of climate change? But what does this mean for the millions of people who live there?
Well it depends on where they live. The melting of Himalayan glaciers will affect communities close to the rivers that the melt feeds. However climate change as a whole is adversely altering weather patterns all over Nepal and hindering the ability of mountain farmers to grow enough food to survive; winters are drier, groundwater often runs out before the rainy season relieves the drought, and disruptive pests and invasive plant species survive more easily due to the warming climate.
These farming communities need a solution...
2. The Solutions
The Glacier Trust does not ‘do’ aid. Instead we work at community level promoting community-led sustainable development programmes as a solution.
Unlike many of the larger aid agencies, we think that single fix solutions are usually counterproductive. We therefore take a holistic approach to building resilience to climate change with ‘hands on’ knowledge sharing education programmes that focus on better use of existing resources. We achieve this one village at a time, enabling positive change to occur which neighbouring communities tend to pick up on and apply themselves, so your money continues to make a difference as the knowledge you have paid for moves from village to village!
3. The Means
You are the means! By donating you give the next generation the best possible chance to continue to adapt to and thrive in their changing environment.
100% of your money goes to our projects, and we only proceed with a project when it is fully funded in order to know that we can see it through. So if you are concerned about the effects of climate change or would like to be part of the means of transforming peoples’ lives from poverty to prosperity, please make a donation. Thankyou!