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Annual Report 2010/11 Helping the People of the Himalaya Annual Report 2010/11 Helping the people of the Himalaya. Sustainable health, education and environment projects. Contents 03 About the Australian Himalayan Foundation 04 Our Programs 06 Teacher Training – Quality Education (TTQE) – Our Flagship Program 08 Our Donors, Sponsors and Supporters 09 Chairman’s Review 10 Executive Director’s Review: The Trek Ahead 11 AHF Board of Directors and Staff 12 Financial Information 16 How you can help Our Quality Education program helps provide access to education for all children. 02 THE AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION | ANNUAL REPORT 2010/11 About The Australian Himalayan Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organisation dedicated to helping the people of the Himalaya achieve their goals. What we do Equally important is making sure that the to a range of projects and to work in local communities are empowered and close partnership with a select number VISIONS & AIMS equipped to manage and support the of non-government organisations and Our vision is to help the people of projects, sustainably and inclusively. local communities. the Himalaya. GRASSROOTS SUPPORT Our aim is to achieve this through Where we do it Our Supporters program provides the improvements in three important areas: HELPING HIMALAYAN COMMUNITIES opportunity to be involved in the work • Education Over the last 40 years, thousands of of the Foundation by contributing to the • Health & Medical Services Australians have visited the Himalaya. wellbeing of the Himalayan people. • Environment and Wildlife Conservation For many it is an opportunity to trek beneath the world’s highest peaks and In order to expand our Supporter base Our objective is to ensure, where to appreciate some of the world’s most and promote the work of the Foundation possible, the long-term viability of hospitable cultures. we have state-based representatives our educational programs, to support throughout Australia. medical services and to support Yet the Himalaya is not just a vast OUR affILIATES environmental and wildlife conservation adventure playground. Although the projects throughout the Himalaya. lifestyle of the local communities may at We have forged ties with our overseas first appeal idyllic, for most it is anything associates including: The Australian Himalayan Foundation but easy – with medical assistance, has policy guidelines in place to clearly education and care for the environment • Hillary Himalayan Foundation (NZ) distinguish between development and often falling short of their needs. • Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation welfare support. It does not have any – Canada political or religious affiliations. The Foundation provides you with • American Himalayan Foundation the means to help the Himalayan • Himalayan Trust (UK) How we do it communities achieve their goals • Himalayan Trust (NZ) – and of giving something back. SUSTAINABLE EMPOWERMENT Project partners include the Snow The Foundation focuses on sustainability Our Background Leopard Conservancy, the Australian and empowerment for the people of Tibetan Society, as well as REED FUNDRAISING FOR IMPORTANT the Himalaya. (Rural Education Environment & COMMUNITY PROJECTS Development Centre), RHEST (Rural It is about ensuring, through assistance Since we were granted our tax-deductibility Health & Education Service Trust), and with administration, project management, (DGR) status in January 2005, our the NNCTR (Nepal Network for Cancer training and monitoring, that the projects fundraising efforts have gone from strength Treatment and Research) in Nepal, are set up and managed in such a way to strength. This has allowed us to commit Servants of Society in Leh, Ladakh as to be sustainable. and RENEW in Bhutan. ANNUAL REPORT 2010/11 | THE AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION 03 Our Programs The Australian Himalayan Foundation supports education, health and environment projects in Nepal, India (Ladakh) and Bhutan. LADAKH TIBET LHASA DELHI NEPAL EVEREST INDIA KATHMANDU SOLU KHUMBU BHUTAN Zanskar Primary Support for Under- Cancer Screening & Health Care Program privileged Children Prevention Programs Zanskar is one of the most isolated Our partnership with RHEST The Nepal Network for Cancer regions of the Indian Himalaya and (Rural Health & Education Service Treatment & Research (NNCTR) records a chronically high rate of Trust) supports underprivileged conducts cervical and breast infant mortality. Since 2005 we have girls and dalit (untouchable cancer screening and education worked with the amchi, the traditional boys) in rural districts of Nepal. prevention programs in a country medical practitioners, holding At present we are providing where less than 5% of women workshops and training programs educational support for ten years have the opportunity to undertake to improve health outcomes. for over 250 students. regular cancer checkups. 04 THE AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION | ANNUAL REPORT 2010/11 Wildlife Conservation Tibetan Programs Himalayan Art Awards & the Environment In association with the Australian Managed by Margie Thomas, our Tibetan Society we support acclaimed Himalayan Art Award We are proud of our partnership Tibetans living in exile in the Indian aims to help local artists develop with the Snow Leopard Himalaya. Our programs include their creative medium. The awards Conservancy – the world’s supporting a cultural troupe are self-funding. The artists foremost organisation dedicated in Kalimpong and assistance (currently in Nepal and Bhutan) to protecting the elusive snow for a school in Salugara in the commit to producing one major leopard. Our current support Himalayan foothills. work that is auctioned by the AHF. LADAKH focuses on an education and livelihood program in the Solu Khumbu region of Nepal. TIBET LHASA DELHI NEPAL EVEREST INDIA KATHMANDU SOLU KHUMBU BHUTAN Providing viable and sustainable solutions to Teacher Training – Bhutan Education enrich life in Quality Education Support Program Our major initiative in the Solu We provide funding for young the Himalaya. Khumbu region of Nepal. Our girls to access educational nine-year program focuses opportunities in remote regions on teacher training that will of Bhutan. The project is ultimately impact on over 260 managed by Michelle Hogan schools, nearly 1,500 teachers and Carolyn Hamer-Smith, and over 47,000 children. ambassadors for the Bhutan NGO RENEW. ANNUAL REPORT 2010/11 | THE AUSTRALIAN HIMALAYAN FOUNDATION 05 Teacher Training – Quality Education (TTQE) – Our Flagship Program Our Quality Education Program has been described as one of the most ambitious in rural Nepal. We aim to improve the educational outcomes in over 260 schools, boosting teaching skills for 1,500 teachers and providing a better education for 47,000 students in disadvantaged areas of the Solu Khumbu (Everest) region, well away from the tourist trails. In September 2011 the Department are committed to providing teachers with Development Centre), a Nepalese NGO awarded our program as the best sustainable skills and in the long term based in Kathmandu who have worked example of teacher training in Nepal, provide opportunities through education. with Jim from the outset. A further while in June 2010 the Nepal Department dimension to the program is the valued The Foundation will also provide of Education signed a Memorandum of contribution of a select team of teachers resources to schools in the Nele Understanding endorsing our program. from Australia and New Zealand who district, where even the provision of have volunteered to help the Foundation Our nine-year program continues to basic textbooks and teaching aids is achieve their remarkable goals. go from strength to strength. We are considered a luxury. currently entering the 4th year of the The reports from the first three years of program cycle, with an expansion into AHF Initiative – our program in the Sotang district leave the Nele district of the Solu Khumbu. us in little doubt that we are on the right Schools for the Himalaya The Nele district is in dire need of track. Some of the brightest teachers are support – literacy and attendance Our Schools for the Himalaya program being selected for additional training to rates are low, and schools are poorly runs in parallel with our TTQE program become key teachers. This sustainable resourced. Our program will deliver whose foundations were laid by Director initiative will eventually result in these a series of workshops to improve the Lincoln Hall and Barbara Hall. teachers passing on their skills to their training of primary school teachers, as fellow teachers. In addition, attendance Schools in Australia are encouraged to the quality of teaching often consists rates have increased and education raise funds for a school in Nepal, that of rote learning. outcomes are improving. will help improve basic facilities and Promoting education to show the educational resources. There are also The TTQE program is directed by our true worth of education to the wider opportunities for schools to visit the Solu Program Co-ordinator Jim Strang, who community – to community leaders and Khumbu and gain first hand experience was instrumental in 1998 in establishing the parents and teacher associations – of the extent and effectiveness of our the Teacher Training program run by Sir is a priority with year round school and TTQE program. Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Trust. On parent workshops. Above all the AHF the ground the program is managed by recognizes that quality education enables REED (Rural Education Environment and children to reach their full potential.
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