A community foundation · India | Nepal

The mountains give us everything. We give back.

Himalayan Folk Foundation serves the people and the peaks — cleaning trails, uplifting villages, teaching students, and standing with these communities when disaster strikes.

Become a volunteer Our mission

Est. by mountain folk2 nations · one range100% volunteer-led

What we do

Four promises, kept at altitude.

Everything we do begins with a simple truth: the Himalayas are not a backdrop — they are home. Our work protects both the land and the lives woven into it.

Environment

Cleaner Himalayas

Mass clean-up treks, waste segregation centres and plastic-free village campaigns — from the trails of Himachal to the valleys of Solukhumbu, we carry down what the mountains never asked for.

Community

Uplifting Communities

Livelihood training for mountain women, fair markets for local craft, and healthcare camps in remote villages — growth that stays in the hands of the people who call these slopes home.

Education

Teaching the Next Generation

Classrooms, scholarships and learning camps for students across India and Nepal — so a child in a high-altitude village has the same horizon as anyone, anywhere.

Relief

Disaster Relief

When earthquakes, floods and landslides strike, our volunteer network is first on the trail — rescue support, emergency shelter, warm meals, and the long work of rebuilding.

Where we stand

One mountain range. Two homelands. India | Nepal.

India

From the Spiti and Kullu valleys to the Garhwal hills, our Indian chapters run clean-up treks, village schools and women's craft cooperatives.

Himachal Pradesh
Uttarakhand
Ladakh
Sikkim

Nepal

Across the Khumbu and beyond, we support remote classrooms, trail restoration and rapid relief for earthquake- and flood-affected villages.

Solukhumbu
Mustang
Langtang
Gorkha

Impact so far

Small hands, steep trails, real change.

48+tonnes of waste carried down from trails & camps

120mountain villages reached across 2 nations

3,400students supported in classrooms & camps

19disaster responses since our first winter

Our story

A laughing student in a Himalayan village classroom

Raised by these mountains. Returning the favour.

Himalayan Folk began with a group of trekkers who couldn't unsee what they saw on the trails — plastic in the streams, classrooms without teachers, villages one landslide away from losing everything.

So we stayed. What started as a single clean-up trek became a foundation that now spans two nations — run not by outsiders, but by the mountain folk themselves: teachers, guides, farmers, students and grandmothers who know every bend of these valleys.

We believe the Himalayas don't need saving from a distance. They need neighbours who show up — with gloves, with books, with warm blankets, and with time.

"The mountain doesn't belong to us. We belong to it."
— A founding volunteer, Kullu Valley

Every hand helps

Come walk with us.

Volunteer on a clean-up trek, sponsor a student's school year, fund a relief kit — or simply spread the word. The mountains will remember you.

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