Welcome to Ratna Shri Foundation Nepal
In the high villages of Dolpo and across the Himalaya, many elders are left without family close by as the young travel far for work and school. We bring warmth, food, medicine and quiet companionship to their doorstep, season after season.
An elder of the Dolpo highlands, wrapped against the winter wind.
Old age in these mountains is rarely gentle. Winters stretch on for months, the nearest clinic can be days away on foot, and loneliness settles in quickly once children leave for the valleys below. Our elderly care programme exists to soften that distance.
Four simple forms of care, extended to every elder, every season.
An elder need not ask for warmth. It is our place to notice the cold before they speak of it.
Your support keeps blankets, medicine and warm meals reaching elders long after the trekking season ends.
Care is not a single visit, it is woven through every hour. From the first cup of butter tea at dawn to the moment the doors are latched against the cold, here is what a single day with us can look like.
Before the frost lifts, someone arrives with hot butter tea and helps light the morning fire.
A proper meal is shared, medicines are checked, and news from the village is exchanged at the doorstep.
Firewood is split for the night, blankets are aired in the last light, small repairs are quietly finished.
The door is latched against the wind, knowing morning will bring someone back again.
Three hundred and sixty-five such days, walked beside every elder we serve.
See how your support reaches every hour