About Us<\/span><\/h2>\nIt has been a long road getting here. A long, winding, difficult but immensely beautiful road.\u00a0 Does this bring to mind the path through a mountain? Or undulating hills? We took our inspiration from the children who walk to school in the foothills of the Himalayas, a metaphor for the long, needful\u00a0 road to education, even if you live on the edges of a country, on the fringes of society, away from the centre. We watched them laugh and talk and realised a few things: the need to know, the drive to learn, the love of friendship, the wholeness of community is the greatest assurance against desolation, despondency and disadvantage.\u00a0 We also learned that it is worthwhile to preserve all of these.\u00a0 The Mountain Children\u2019s Foundation was born in India 21 years ago https:\/\/mcfglobal.ngo\/<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0 Headed by the indomitable Aditi Kaur, the MCF has been educating the children of the Himalayas, bridging the rural-urban gaps faced by most mountain communities, being an environmental disaster relief organisation when needed, providing child protection services, understanding and facilitating children\u2019s rights, helping kids clean up their communities, spreading joy through play, discovery, art and connection in all ways.\u00a0 But more than anything else, the MCF India has beaten out a singular path: protect, preserve and enhance the innate joy, courage and curiosity of a child, build on their strong humanity, and they will thrive in the face of all kinds of obstacles.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>And something else happens too: when a person is secure within themselves, when they are taken care of, they take care of others too.\u00a0 When a child thrives, their communities thrive, and the future holds more promise, more options, more hope.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAll this, of course, takes hard work and consistent effort and the MCF has survived for 21 years, a fixture now, in the minds of the mountain children of the Himalayas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a strange thing, but an idea began to grow among a small group of connected people. We find ourselves scattered across the world, living and working\u00a0 globally, but the mountain children never leave us. And we find ourselves united by a passion for learning, for the promise implicit in the world\u2019s children, and the love of connections across cultures, regions, and knowledge systems.\u00a0 With the vision and the work of the MCF in our sights, we began to wonder, what if the mountain children of the word were connected? What if they reached out to each other, shared their lives, their hopes, the wisdom of their ancestors? What if they solved their challenges together? What if all this helped with feelings of dislocation, remoteness, sometimes isolation? What stories would they tell?This is us, then, The Mountain Children\u2019s Forum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"about](\"http:\/\/mountainchildrensforum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/girl_lama.jpg\" "\\"girl_lama\\"")
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And something else happens too: when a person is secure within themselves, when they are taken care of, they take care of others too.\u00a0 When a child thrives, their communities thrive, and the future holds more promise, more options, more hope.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All this, of course, takes hard work and consistent effort and the MCF has survived for 21 years, a fixture now, in the minds of the mountain children of the Himalayas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s a strange thing, but an idea began to grow among a small group of connected people. We find ourselves scattered across the world, living and working\u00a0 globally, but the mountain children never leave us. And we find ourselves united by a passion for learning, for the promise implicit in the world\u2019s children, and the love of connections across cultures, regions, and knowledge systems.\u00a0 With the vision and the work of the MCF in our sights, we began to wonder, what if the mountain children of the word were connected? What if they reached out to each other, shared their lives, their hopes, the wisdom of their ancestors? What if they solved their challenges together? What if all this helped with feelings of dislocation, remoteness, sometimes isolation? What stories would they tell?This is us, then, The Mountain Children\u2019s Forum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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