Our Everest Base Camp and Build and Trek expeditions in 2022 had something of a challenging time, with delays from Covid in 2020 and 2021.

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Despite all of that they funded the new Vocational School south of Kathmandu.  The school will provide young people from across Nepal with an opportunity to learn a trade such as plumbing, electrics, carpentry and tailoring so that they can return to their distant villages and start a business. This keeps the skilled workforce in Nepal, adds to the economy and retains the workforce, rather than losing many of them (estimated at 750,000 in 2023) to work abroad in the Middle East for poor wages and sometimes in dire conditions. 

 

In October 2024, the B&T 2024 team, which included five of the original 2022 team, had the honour of attending an official handover of the building to our friends at the Nepal Youth Foundation. We are so proud to see the building complete and fully functioning, with students already learning trades through the courses on offer and successfully putting their learning into practice through paid jobs.

 

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