Gurje Community Health Service Centre In 2008 The Umbrella Foundation and our partners SolHimal France asked the poor rural communities of Gurje what were the biggest challenges facing them and… More »
News of 2010
The library which is situated underneath our Umbrella office at the Amadablam house is in need of some organising and brightening up. We have arranged to have new 2 new… More »
It’s another bright and sunny morning on the rooftop of the Machapuchre house. All the boys are on the roof already before I arrive at 6.00 am. Early morning is… More »
As the first few years of a child’s education are so important in laying the foundation for their attitudes towards learning and schooling we decided, with the help of the… More »
For our recent subscribers to the newsletter, an introduction to the great work of Viva and Jacky is definitely in order. Viva Bell co-founded The Umbrella Foundation with Irish friend… More »
In 2007 Conor and Stephen started working with an orphanage called CVO in Gongabu. Through the kindness of families and friends back in Ireland they sponsored all of the living… More »
A 19 year old Umbrella youth, Sushil, from the Western district of Surkhet, has been working with Indian immigrant families the last year and a half along the banks of… More »
In a country rubbish collection is substituted with local bomb-fires, with no recycling facilities more sophisticated than the child rag pickers and where a ‘carbon foot print’ means no more… More »