Set up of permanent health team in Simikot, Western Nepal

A grant was made to the Nepal Trust to help establish a permanent medical team in Simikot, Humla, Western Nepal. This will ensure a health service is provided in one of the poorest areas of the World.

Humla, the highest and arguably the most impoverished of Nepal's 75 districts, is a culturally unique and fragile Himalayan environment that lies 440km NW of Kathmandu along the Tibetan border. Here, isolation and poverty in a harsh mountainous land deprive people of all but the basics of life. Its population of Tibetan speaking Buddhists and Nepali speaking Hindus lives on forested alpine slopes or villages overlooking steeply terraced strips of cultivated land.