2018 presentation of the solidarity association
“In Nepal, a village, a friendship on the move”.
For more than 20 years, the association “Au Népal, Un Village, une Amitié en Marche (ANUVAM)”, set up by a group of hikers, has built up a relationship of friendship and solidarity with a community in a mid-mountain village in the Solu Khumbu, south of Everest.This Rapcha Basa village, inhabited mainly by the Khaling Rai ethnic group and almost 20% by Magar, lies along the deep Dudh Khosi river and practises staggered self-subsistence farming. Small farmers, they occasionally hire out their strength as porters to supply other villages or lead treks.
The village has only been accessible by jeep since the end of 2017.
Evelyne Pichenot
