Employment and Empowerment project is the major activities of Trekking Experts’ Corporate Social Responsibility. For continuous income of uneducated people of remote villages, Trekking Experts has provided vocation training for 40 women and 31 men. They have been trained for bamboo products, wood carving training, sewing and knitting etc. And Trekking Experts is supporting them by delivering raw materials on loan and helping them to sell their products. And the beneficiaries were earthquake victims and from poor family background. Trekking Experts has initiated and successfully executed following programs for employment and empowerment. With the financial help of Caritas Germany, Trekking Experts conducted training session to three temporary camps of earthquake victims in Kathmandu, Nuwakot and Rasuwa. This training session provided training to 71 housewives and 30 men for knitting, weaving and wood carving along with bamboo products.
Trekking Experts has launched Women’s Way Project to empower women of rural part of Nepal and providing jobs to them throughout of trekking and mountaineering. Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women Nepal Ms. Kanchhi Maya Tamang will be leading this project. Trekking Experts will contribute 50% profit gained from this charity trips to Women Welfare Fund. Trekking Experts has designed this trip to provide jobs and encourage female in tourism business. In this trip, the whole team will be consisting of female members such as leader, guide, cook, helpers and porters who all will be female.
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