The American Himalayan Foundation was set up by San Francisco agent Richard Blum after his first trek through the mountains of Nepal in 1968. Amid this excursion he added to an enthusiasm for the nearby individuals and the destitution in which they lived. Blum began helping Sherpa youngsters casually, and in 1980 he set up the American Himalayan Foundation (AHF).[1] Because numerous individuals in Nepal and Tibet live without medicinal services, training, clean water, or scaffolds interfacing remote towns; Blum made the establishment to address these issues. The establishment's first accomplice was Sir Edmund Hillary, helping the Sherpas through his Himalayan Trust. Additionally in the early years, His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama asked for that AHF assist the with growinging number of Tibetan displaced people in Nepal and India. AHF has given instruction, social insurance, and fundamental help to Tibetans for more than 20 years.[2] As AHF developed, the 501 (c)(3) philanthr...
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