>Are there 1000 Nepali villages who have asked for a school and the local community thinks that’s what they’re really short on? Quite likely. Certainly if you

>Are there 1000 Nepali villages who have asked for a school and the local community thinks that’s what they’re really short on? Quite likely. Certainly if you include other developing countries, as well as Nepal. There are small communities in Nepal that get very little help from the central government. Also much work still to be done to repair damage from the last earthquake, especially outside the tourist areas. >Most development programs like this are donations to westerners to have exotic experiences that end up providing very little value to the communities they purport to help. Many of them are. However there are organizations like https://thejunipertrust.org https://thejunipertrust.org that spend 98% of donations helping the intended recipients. Also they employ local to do the work. Which means money goes into the community which also makes the local community more invested in the project. I understand GiveDirectly is also an excellent charity. But (egotistically) it is nice to be able to point at a picture of a school and think 'I did that' (or, at least, financed it).