Vishal Himalaya Foundation
executes multi-faceted projects in Development. These include check-dams, sanitation and clean drinking water for villages,
school improvements, mobile education, vocational training, and others. Please explore our website, comment to us, and if
you like support us. Thank you for visiting. UPCOMING EVENT:
VHF will hold its annual fund-raising event in the Fall of 2012. more..
RECENT NEWS
15 Feb. 2012: Four more dams reach completion in the region NE of Akola. These dams are located in the villages
Ghusar and Sanglud.
30 Jan, 2012: Kimberly ClarkCorporation managers visit Dam Sites; Representatives of the Corporation that has funded construction of
dams and plantation of trees visited our projects. They saw dams under construction, visited existing successful dams irrigating
lands, saw our sanitation units and talked with villagers.
14 Jan , 2012: VHF Executive Directors Eva and Yogi Agrawal returned from Akola, India after reviewing progress on all projects.
Their special focus of the trip was on the water and sanitation projects underway. A tree-plantation occurred during their
visit. Also visiting with them were Kathy and Edwin Sterner of Lake City Park, Washington, USA.
03 Nov ,
2011: VHF held a successful fund-raiser. This event funds a lot of our projects. Contributions continued
to come in long afterwards from people who have heard about VHF, and who could not attend. Thank you to all!
01 Oct , 2011: VHF request for a grant of $4,000 has been approved by Mercer Island
Rotary Club. The funds will be matched by VHF and combined funding will be used to build an RO Water Purification plant for
safe drinking water in the cluster of villages NE of Akola where we are already building more RO plants.
29 Sept, 2011: Vishal Himalaya Foundation partners with People's Science Institute
(PSI) of Dehradoon, India. PSI with its extensive experience in Development will advise and assist VHF in its village projects
on water, check- dams, and sanitation.
17 Sept 2011: Number of completed toilets
in villages Gonapur and Dapura reaches 100. Total planned 242.
6 Sept. 2011: VHF completes its third
year recording daily rainfall in Akola. Daily rainfall data through 3 monsoons permits construction of statistics which
permit anticipating extreme events. This is the only such publicly available record.
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June 2011: Planting of 457 trees completed along 0.8 mile long road to Gonapur from State Highway 200.Trees were 5-ft
tall. Seven of these were tall Plumerias (Champa in Hindi). These are planted in village to define a gathering space.
