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HINDU KUSH WELFARE TRUST:- is an indigenous initiative of a native of the high HK region to provide as better medical relief as possible, to the remotest hinterland valleys & winter locked communities with population up to 30000 each valley, with chronic inaccessibility problem during winters from centers of civic facilities…this inaccessibility is partly due to paucity of resources and partly due to the geographical location of these valleys, having winter snow fall cycle, remaining blocked 4-5 months in winters due to heavy snow fall followed by avalanches that bury the narrow valley roads and some valleys get no medical aid / supplies/ relief at all, and consequently patients suffer tragic deaths. Maternity facilities are nil. female education is very low. Women and children suffer the worst. Most often for serious patients stretcher parties are called on volunteer basis to carry them over the avalanche debris for more than 40km in severe cold, a bid to save precious lives but many lose their lives before receiving any medical help. Moreover this is a seismic prone zone with frequent tremors and aftershocks that jolt the region with the highest record of quakes followed by disasters of irreparable magnitude. So far no NGO has considered this aspect seriously. The objectives of this TRUST are prioritized as below, to be addressed according to available resources. After much deliberations, initial failures and redesigning the strategy our first priority project for the worst affected TERICH valley is now at the launching pad and soon after its completion we shall move to the next one.