Vishal Himalaya Foundation

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 2013. more..

RECENT NEWS

15 Dec. 2012: Mr. Uday Vaze of Akola, joined VHF as general manager of all projects. Mr. Vaze brings with him extensive experience in development managment. His particular area of expertise is literacy and the environment.

May, 2012: Kimberly Clark Corporation awarded VHF a grant to construct 5 more dams. They funded construction of dams and plantation of trees in 2011-12. In January 2012, site managers saw dams under construction, visited existing successful dams irrigating lands, saw our sanitation units and talked with villagers.

Feb, 2013: VHF Executive Directors Eva and Yogi Agrawal in Akola, India reviewing progress on all projects. Their special focus of the trip is on the water and sanitation projects underway. A tree-plantation occurred during their visit in Jan. 2012. 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.