Introduction
Mountain Trust Nepal is a non-profit NGO working primarily in the fields of education and health. It is a U.K. based charity which was registered in Kathmandu District Administration Office in 2004 and has its Nepal branch office on Barahi Path in Lakeside, Pokhara.

The Mountain Trust allocates funding for education and health programmes in Nepal, and initially provided assistance through school renovation, medical care and livelihood support. Since its inception, Mountain Trust Nepal has worked to extend its work to remote and inaccessible mountainous regions, traveling there to identify real poverty and its associate reasons. It aims to help some of the most deprived rural communities break out of a vicious cycle in which a lack of education, poor health/nutrition and a lack of family planning both result from and lead to poverty. Poverty - in absolute terms - is profound and widespread in Nepal, and amongst many other hardships, lack of basic health facilities and education are some of the most alarming problems faced by Nepalese people.

In urban areas, one of the poorest most vulnerable groups are the riverbed communities, who break stones into gravel in the river bed for a living, do manual labour, and sell vegetables on carts. This is hardly sufficient to provide enough food and other things essential to life especially given that many families here have 4-5 children, and there is little or no capacity to provide these children with an education or deal with any severe health problems that may arise.

Initially, Mountain Trust Nepal emphasised tangible material support: renovation of schools, a child care centre and health posts in the remote villages. Later on, it decided to look into ways of assisting development across a much larger area. In due course, emphasis was placed on the charity's Radio Guru programme (School on Air) in a larger sphere - the Western Regional Center, as well as outreach health campaigns in remote hill regions, reservation of a poor fund in the Manipal Teaching Hospital, and scholarship support to the children living in different part of Western Region of Nepal.