Community Action Nepal

Community Action Nepal is a UK based charity whose aim is to help some of the poorest people on the planet – the mountain people of Nepal. It helps local communities to raise their standard of living and strengthens Indigenous, community-based cultures. We have a proven track record improving the standard of living in remote mountain communities, delivering anti-poverty initiatives, and advancing health care in Nepal over the past 25 years. The charity was set up by the British mountaineer Doug Scott (1941-2020), who was the first Briton to summit Everest in 1975 with Dougal Haston. All these years later the provision of education, essential health care and livelihood support remains a continuing challenge in remote mountain communities with the Covid-19 pandemic in Nepal reinforcing the importance of CAN’s work. CAN’s ethos is quite simple in its ultimate objective; to provide support where it is needed the most, straying off the beaten track to support communities to help themselves, and reduce donor dependency.