Changing Horizons
Since 1997, KE has worked closely with the Juniper Trust and together we have a very successful record of locating community projects and carrying them out. The Trust identifies projects likely to generate long-term benefits and KE uses its expertise and local knowledge to ensure that funds are successfully distributed and that the work is done. Working with a single charity in this way, we have been able to maximise our contribution to the areas we visit. Our focus is on finding sustainable projects where we can work alongside the local people.
Registered Charity: 1053356. Patron: Sir Chris Bonington
News about Projects
Nepal
Helping Schools in the Kathmandu Valley
Nepal is the heart of the Juniper Trust and where Angela Locke found her inspiration to set up this worthwhile Charity. For the last 11 years, the Juniper Trust has worked in partnership with KE Adventure Travel, fundraising for projects in Nepal. Most of our projects in Nepal are based in the Kathmandu Valley.
Our three main projects over the past five years have been Education based, building three flagship schools at Balodaya, Chobar and Ardesha. All three schools are now thriving and victims of their own success. The Juniper Trust funded extensions to Chobar and Ardesha schools in 2007.
One of our newest projects in Nepal is at Adarsha Bal Vikash Kendra School, which lies 30 kilometres east of Kathmandu and has about 45 children and older students with severe learning difficulties and physical handicaps. In October 2008 £2500 was sent to Nepal towards the £5000 cost of building a much needed physiotherapy unit. Fundraising continues.
In 2007, the Juniper Trust supported the Himalayan Outreach Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable healthcare development in remote areas of Nepal and also donated to the Sedi Bagar Landslide Appeal in Nepal's Pokhara District.
>> View Nepal projects
India
Ladakh Flood Appeal
In August 2010, a series of devastating flash floods ravaged Leh town and adjoining areas, with hundreds of lives lost and entire families wiped out. By end of September you helped to raise £3500 emergency relief fund to send out to our local agent to ehlp some fo the remote villages in the Markha Valley. The first priority was to rebuild irrigation canals, restore cultivable land and rehabilitate displaced villages.
Lingshed Children's Hostel
The Lingshed Area Children's Hostel provides a home from home for over forty children from one of this region's most remote villages. This allows them to receive a good education at schools in Leh. A new washing block was recently added, using environmentally sound materials and providing solar-powered hot water. An upper floor is also now complete, with sleeping rooms for the children and a large corridor used for playing and private study. A total of over $36,000 has been contributed through the Juniper Trust. In 2009, the kitchen area will be made more suitable to cater safely for all the children and staff.
Congress School
In 2006, work finally finished on a complete rebuild of Congress School in Darjeeling with all the children appreciating their new environment. Solar Panels were installed in a remote village in Spiti in northern India and Loughborough School helped with a new classroom at Bagsu Nag School in Dharamsala. The Juniper Trust and King Edward's School also helped with the construction of a new classroom at Ngayur Sangacholing School in Kalimpong.
>> View India projects
Pakistan
Baltistan Flood Appeal
Flooding across most of Pakistan, caused by monsoon rains in August 2010, created almost insuperable problems for this fantastic country and was widely reported. However a more localised disaster in Baltistan has gone largely unreported and this area has been left to fend for itself. Thanks to you the trust was able to send £3500 in September as emergency relief, with the aim of helping Talis, a village in the Masherbrum area. Tents and warm jackets against the coming winter were prioritised.
Hushe Water Project
KE Adventure Travel first fundraised for the Hushe Water Project over 15 years ago. Recently it came to KE's attention that a considerable amount of repair and maintenance work was required. In the spring of 2007, £2200 was raised by KE to assist with this project to enable this work to be carried out, ensuring a clean water supply to the village. As the winter snows melted, work began and throughout the summer of 2007, several KE groups visited the Hushe Valley and reported good progress.
A letter from the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Baltistan - 5th December 2007: "As per measurement of work done at the site, the community have completed 90% of the work physically in November 2007 and the remaining 10% of the work will be completed by the community next year before April 2008. But, the community have already started to get benefits from this project. They are using the spring water now. Due to the start of the winter season, they still have to plaster the bottom speed breaker tank and this will be done in the spring. The villagers of Hushe would like to thank KE and the Juniper Trust for their kind donation."
Anwar Ali, Field Engineer, AKRSP Area Office.
>> View Pakistan projects
Peru
Solar Light Project
Since 2004, KE leader Val Pikethly has installed over 2000 solar-powered lights in small mountain villages of Northern Peru. Past projects include installing solar lights in the villages of Pocpa and Pomapata in the Huayhuash in 2004, Quisuar village in the Cordillera Blanca region and Tupacamaru village in Huayhuash in 2005, Queropalca in the Cordillera Huayhuash in 2006, Tayapurca village in the Cordillera Blanca in 2007 and several villages in the Pomabamba District of the Eastern Cordillera Blanca in 2008. In 2009, 250 lights were installed in the villages of Janco Pampa, Yurrac and Chicha Pampa and in 2010 – 200 lights were handed out in the villages of Quisaracasce, Cedros and Safuna – Jesus District in the Cordillera Blanca. There is no shortage of villages requiring Solar Lights and Val’s help and in 2011 Val intends to deliver lights to 400 homes in four villages in the north eastern part of the Cordillera Blanca.
>> View Peru Solar Panel Project
Africa
Morocco Aroumd Water Project
2006 saw the first project for the Juniper Trust in Africa, with the installation of a new water tank in the small village of Aroumd in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Noadswood School travelled to Morocco on a trekking holiday and took time out to help with this project.
Kenya - Island School
Island School is located in Ol Maisor, a small village beneath Mount Kenya. Jo Richardson Community School initially raised £4000 (matched by the Juniper Trust) to help build classrooms After visits in 2007 and 2009, the school is now planning its 3rd trip to Kenya in 2011 and is busy raising funds for further classrooms.
>> View Africa projects
For more information on these appeals (for which we are still raising funds) and for new worldwide projects being considered by KE and the Juniper Trust, click on the links above or go to: junipertrust.co.uk
If you want to make a contribution to a particular project you can do it online, or send your donation to: The Juniper Trust, PO Box 104, Keswick, CA12 5WD
