The Kamzang Fund | Sponsor a Child in the Himalaya!
THE KAMZANG KIDS | LOOKING FOR SPONSORS
Susma Gurung (Dolpo, Nepal) – Secondary & University Education in Kathmandu
Tenzin Nurbu (Sherap & Dechen Dolma’s son, HP, Indian Himalaya) – Education in India
Kunga Tendup Sherpa (Phu Tashi’s Son, Namche, Khumbu, Nepal) – Education in Namche, Khumbu
Nischel Basnet (Uttam’s Son, Solu, Nepal) – Education in Solu or Kathmandu
Susma Gurung (Rechi, Dolpo, Nepal) – Secondary & University Education in Kathmandu
UPDATE | Sponsored through Mark Hollow’s Dolpo Fund!
Tsedup Dorje (Tshering Kyinzom’s son, Chharka, Dolpo) – Education in Kathmandu
Kunga Chokey Sherpa (Pangboche, Khumbu, Nepal) – Education in Namche, Khumbu, Nepal
Mingmar Dolma (Tangge, Mustang, Nepal) – Education in Pokhara or Kathmandu
Jhampa Namdol & Tenzin Topden (Phuntsok’s sons, Kanchenjunga, Nepal) – Education in Kathmandu
Lobsang Chhering (Tashi Dikki & Nyima Dorji’s son, Samdo, Nepal) – Education in Kathmandu
Yangi Lhamo & Tsering Angmo (Tangge, Mustang, Nepal) – Education in Pokhara or Kathmandu
Tsewang Palmo & Phura Tashi Sherpa (Khumbu, Nepal) – Education in Kathmandu
Pasang Sherpa (Pema’s daughter, Kathmandu, Nepal) – Education in Kathmandu
Doma & Pasang Sherpa (Nima’s daughters, Solu Khumbu, Nepal) – Education in Kathmandu
Sunil Gurung’s Son (Mustang, Nepal) – Education in Kathmandu
LOOKING FOR SPONSORS | UNIVERSITY STUDIES!
Sushil Chaudary (Kathmandu, Nepal) – University Education in Kathmandu
Pema Tenzin Lama (Thinle Gyalgen’s son, Saldang, Dolpo) – University Education in Kathmandu
UPDATE | Sponsored through Mark Hollow’s Dolpo Fund!
Tsering Bhuti Gurung (Thinkyu, Dolpo) – University Education in Kathmandu
Tashi Lhamo (Mukut, Dolpo, Nepal) – University Education in Kathmandu
LOOKING FOR SPONSORS | MEDICAL STUDIES!
Lhamo Bhuti (Kanchenjunga, Nepal) – Bachelor in Musoorie & Medical School in Bangalore, India – LOOKING FOR A SPONSOR FOR FURTHER MEDICAL STUDIES
Pema Gurung (Khoma, Dolpo, Nepal) – Medical School Kathmandu or Pokhara
Chhimi Yangdon (Tibetan Nomadic Family, Mustang, Nepal) – Nursing Studies in Kathmandu
Pema Kunsang (Saldang, Dolpo) – Amchi (Tibetan Medicine) Studies in Kathmandu
THE KAMZANG FUND
The Kamzang Fund has been sponsoring children (as well as a few adults) in the Himalaya for education and medical issues for 20 years. The Kamzang Fund presently has 4 college graduate, sponsors 5 children for higher education, 20+ children for lower or middle-school education and is looking for sponsorship for many more children. The Kamzang Fund has also supported locals from the remote regions through which we trek and cycle for various medical issues over the past two decades, and continues to help villagers who have fallen through the cracks …
Browse through the Kamzang Fund Kids, Kamzang Fund Medical Cases & Kamzang Fund Projects. Please get in touch if you’d like to help to change a life in the Himalaya!
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100% of your donations go to the Kamzang Fund, the Kamzang Kids, and our Kamzang Fund Projects. A donation to the Kamzang Fund goes directly to children who have extra needs during their education (including medical assistance, clothes or housing), villagers that we meet during our travels that require medical assistance, Himalayan nomads or other of our many Kamzang Fund social projects. You can sponsor a child yearly, or make a donation to a child’s education, or donate to the Kamzang Fund – all of your donations go 100% to our causes!
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READY TO HELP?
Inquire about which children need sponsorship and the costs involved. There are many forms of sponsorship, and the costs vary from region to region. Help can take many forms, from full school sponsorship to helping with books and school uniforms, a one-time payment, or help with medical issues. You can sponsor a Tibetan Buddhist monk or their monastery, and we help find funding for Himalayan schools and act as an intermediary for you to find ways to help. 
Find children who are ‘Looking for Sponsors’ below. And scroll down this page for the list of children that we sponsor, with photos and stories. And our GRADUATES are at the bottom of this page! 
THE KAMZANG KIDS | LOOKING FOR SPONSORS
Sushil Gurung – Kathmandu
Sushil is an amazing young man who will be completing his class 12 studies in Kathmandu in 2024, after being sponsored for his earlier education by Linda C. He is an extremely bright and motivated student, most excited by English, econoics, computer tech and art).
Sushil has unfortunatey lost his sponsorship for the coming year when he hopes to enter a university in Kathmandu (2024), and we’re actively looking for a new university sponsor. Although his parents work hard to provide for the family (mom Kusum takes care of our Lazimpat flat, dad is a house painter), they won’t be able to afford the approx $1500 per year for a university education. The cost of living has increased incredibly over the last few years, and inflation has made even basic food supplies un-affordable for the average Nepali family. Sushil and his family live in a one-room house below my flat, where Sushil manages to study hard daily. We would truly appreciate anyone wanting to help Sushil complete his university education!
Sushil Gurung Photos & Story
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Sushil in Kathmandu, 2024
Sushil playing badminton during the 2020 lockdown in our Kathmandu flat (2020)
Sushil with Tristy’s pups in Lazimpat, Kathmandu (2018)
Kunga Tendup – Khumbu, Nepal
Gunda Tendup is9-10 years old, and studies in Namche at Namche School, staying with his sister Tashi Dolkar at the wonderful Home Away from Home hostel. Kunga has kindly been sponsored for his 2023 educational fees by trekker Wendy and her family and friends (with holiday gift certificates, what a great idea!)
We’d love to find a sponsor to help with his education and relatively expensive boarding fees in Namche Bazaar, Khumbu (the Everest region)! The cost per year to sponsor Kunga would be about $750 – $1000, and he promises to continue studying hard! 🙏
Kunga Tendup and sister Tashi Dolkar in Namche, Everest region, Nepal (2022)
Kunga Tendup, Namche, Everest, Nepal (2021)
Tenzin Nurbu – Manali, Indian Himalaya
Sherap has been our Tibetan horseman and part of our Kamzang Journeys staff in Ladakh and Zanskar, the Indian Himalaya, since 2001. He and his wife, from Spiti in the Indian Himalaya, have two wonderful sons. Their oldest son Tenzin Dhangsang is now a thawa (young monk), and we are looking for a sponsor for their younger son Tenzin Nurbu’s schooling in Manali, the Indian Himalaya. He is 12 years old, and studying in class 7 as of 2025.
Please message if you’d like to sponsor this extremely smart and motivated young boy! Fees are about $750 per year, increasing as he gets older.
Sherap’s son Tenzin Nurbu (Manali, Indian Himalaya)
Tsering Bhuti Gurung – Thinkyu, Upper Dolpo, Nepal
We met this lovely, enthusiastic and extremely motivated young woman last October in her village of Thinkyu (Thilje), Upper Dolpo, Nepal. She had finished her ‘college’ (classes 11 & 12) in Kathmandu, and returned home to help with the harvest as she didn’t have a sponsor for university. We were so impressed with her – all-around – that I told her we would search for a sponsor for her, as it’s her dream to attend university in Kathmandu so that she can give back to her village.
Tsering’s favorite subject was English, and she also loves traditional singing (Dolpo-Tibetan songs), and played sports at collage. We’d love to see her continue her education in Kathmandu! The cost of her education would be approximatelly $1500 per year, for the next 4 years. 🙏
Tsering Bhuti Gurung, Thinkyu, Dolpo 2024
Tsedup Dorje – Chharka, Dolpo, Nepal
Tsedup Dorji is one of several children of Tshering Kyinzom and her husband, a woodworker from Chharka, living in remote Upper Dolpo, Nepal. We have known this loving and generous family for several years, and have met the intelligent, cheerful and motivated Tsedup many times. He presently attends school at the local Chharka School where he does very well, and also plays soccer (football), and we are looking for a sponsor for him to continue his education in Kathmandu. One of his brothers is a monk, who at age 9, started a 3-year, 3-month, 3-day Tibetan Buddhist meditation in Chharka (and has since completed it), and his family are related to the lamas of Chharka Gompa, a Bon monastery.
We would be so grateful to find a sponsor for his education in Kathmandu, which would start at about $750-$1000 per year. Thank you, and tashi Delek! 🙏
Tsedup and his mother Kyinzom in Chharka, Dolpo, Nepal (2024)
Pema Gurung – Khoma, Upper Dolpo, Nepal
We met the lovely Pema in Khoma, Upper Dolpo, while teaching at Khoma School, a young (18 years old) new teacher. I asked her how she liked teaching, and she replied. “Actually I really wanted to be a nurse, but I didn’t have the funds to continue my education, so I am teaching here in my hometown instead.” We thought we would try to help Pema get into a medical or nursing school in Kathmandu or Pokhara so that she could at least attempt to fulfill her dream!
Please let us know if you’re interested in assisting Pema. At the moment, she is fine teaching, happy to have a job with a salary. If we find a sponsor or funding for further studies for Pema, we will invite her to come to Kathmandu and apply to medical or nursing schools.
Pema in her Khoma school uniform in Upper Dolpo, 2024
Lobsang Chhering (Nyima Dorji (Babu) & Tashi Dikki’s Son) – Samdo (Nupri) Manaslu
This is just a tragic story. This wonderful family, headed by our good friend Babu, was cleft apart when Babu, who had been given the position of organizing the rebuilding of a monastery, got into a brawl with a jealous villager and ended up in prison in Kathmandu …
His lovely and supportive wife Tashi Dikki is alone in Samdo trying to provide for the educations of her children, but truly unable to come up with the money to support their educations. One of the sons is a reincarnated monk in Kathmandu (Lama Urgen Thinley Dorji, 11 years old), staying at Seto Gonpa where his monastic name is Gunden Tharkey. Another son is Lobsang Chhering, 15 years old, studying at the Pokhara Tibetan School at the moment. We are trying to help raise some money for the family so that Lobsang Chhering can continue his education …
Any help very much appreciated!
Tashi Diki in Samdo, Manaslu region, Nepal 2024
Tashi Lhamo – Mukut, Upper Dolpo, Nepal
We met Tashi Lhamo, once a nun, during our 2022 trek through Upper Dolpo, venturing into remote Mukut village as our original itinerary was thwarted by a 10-day storm. Tashi is such a bright star, speaks English well because of her training in a nunnery, but her family now can’t continue her education. We’re trying to find a sponsor for Tashi Lhamo to attend school in Pokhara or Kathmandu.
She has two equally bright friends, both girls, who have also either lost their sponsors or their families can’t afford educations, so once we find a sponsor for Tashi Lhamo we will also search for the other girls.
Tashi Lhamo in Mukut, Upper Dolpo, 2023
Chhimi Yangdon (Tibetan Nomadic Family, Mustang, Nepal)
Chhimi Yangdon, the daughter of a Tibetan nomadic family from Upper Mustang, Nepal with Carallyn, a frequent trekker. Carallyn is helping her with her first year of nursing studies in Pokhara (2025). We are looking for further sopnsors to support the next 3 years of nursing studies in Pokhara or perhaps in Kathmandu.
Chhimi and Carallyn at the nomadic encampment near Lo Manthang, Mustang, Nepal (2023)
Jhampa Namdol & Tenzin Topden – Kanchenjunga, Nepal
Lhamo Bhuti’s two younger brothers, Jhampa Namdol and Tenzin Topden, also need school sponsors. Phuntsok + wife Lhazom Bhuti (who came from Tibet about 20 years ago) have a small house in the Kanchenjunga region, but life in the mountains was difficult, and money scarce for Tibetan refugees, and education is a luxury that is hard to afford! The couple have now moved to Kathmandu to better educate the kids, and we are still looking for 2 sponsors for their education.
Please get in touch if you’d like to help with the education of Phuntsok’s two children. Fees are about $750 – $850 per year to start out …
Lhamo Bhuti with family and Kim, Kathmandu (2020)
Doma & Pasang Sherpa – Solu, Nepal
We’ve known Doma and Pasang, the children of Ngima Tenji Sherpa, for nearly 20 years. He is looking for a sponsor for his lovely daughters to study in Kathmandu. Ngima still lives in the Solu Khumbu region though he is in Kathmandu often, working as a trekking and climbing guide on Everest and other 8000 meter peak expeditions. He works hard to make a living, and and spends most of what he makes sending his daughter to Kingdom Himalaya Boarding School in Kathmandu.
Please get in touch if you’d like to help with Nyima’a adorable daughters’ education! Pasang (top) 9 years old and studying is in class 2, and Doma is 6 and in upper kindergarten. Boarding fees are $1250 per year …
Yangi Lhamo & Tsering Angmo (Upper Mustang, Nepal)
These two adorable girls lost their mother several years ago, and are being raised by their grandmother while their father works overseas. They live in Tangge, Upper Mustang, Nepal. They are currently attending pre-school in Upper Mustang, and we are looking for sponsors to help with their education!
Please get in touch if you’d like to help one or both of these two Mustangi children. Fees are about $500 per year to start.
Yangi Lhamo & Tsering Angmo’s Story & Photos
Facebook Album
The girls grandmother and caretaker in Tangge, Mustang (about 2017)
The girls’ mother, who left the family, Tangge, Mustang, Nepal (about 2014)
Pasang Sherpa – Kathmandu, Nepal
Jamie McGuiness, my Project Himalaya partner, sponsors Pema’s sons Lhakpa and Tshering, and Gyalgen and family also received support from several other trekkers from Project Himalaya. The three kids all go to school in Kathmandu, but sadly Gyalgen passes away in 2016. Pema is now desperately looking for a sponsor for her youngest daughter, Pasang, 12 years old and in class 4, just about to enter class 5 in 2020.
Please get in touch if you can help with beautiful Pasang’s education in Kathmandu! Fees are about $750 per year.
Pasang and Pema, Kathmandu (2020)
Chowang Tenzing (Gunsa, Kanchenjunga, Nepal)
Our friend Tashi and his wife, owners of a small lodge in Gunsa, in the Kanchenjunga region, are looking for a sponsor for their son Chowang, now attending class 3 or 4 in school in Kathmandu. They are having trouble making ends meet, and would love help from a sponsor. Please get in touch if you’d like to help. Fees are about $850 per year to start.
Tsering Kondo – Upper Mustang, Nepal
See Tsering Kondo’s ‘medical’ story below; she has been hard of hearing from birth, and her condition was misunderstood by her parents and the villagers, assuming she wasn’t bright.
The Kamzang Fund sent her to a public school at Chhomrong in Upper Mustang (with a donation from friend John T for a year) but her mother decided she would do better at their public school in Yara where she gets special attention from the teacher, who has been there for 17 years. Below is a photo from March 2015 – she’s happy, looking beautiful and flourishing staying back home with her family.
We are looking for a full-time school sponsor for her to attend a better school in Pokhara or elsewhere soon. Her school in Yara is only a village school with 5 or so students and only goes up to class 5.
Tsering Kondo Story & Photos
Facebook Album
Tsering Kondo Mustangi in Yara, Upper Mustang (2017 & 2018)
The Kamzang Kids Gallery
KAMZANG KIDS | SELFIES 2020
Lockdown Selfies 2020
Namaste – Tashi Delek – Jullay!