THE HARDSHIPS OF
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

99% of the rural area of the HinduKush region is barren mountains, with average heights reaching over 18,000 feet. There is not much soil to grow food and people are hard-hit by widespread food shortages. Due to the lack of medical facilities, minor complications during routine childbirth can cause death. Communication and transportation become impossible when the dirt track roads disappear as a result of falling rocks, avalanches and mudslides.

The Indigenous Peoples Survival Foundation’s (IPSF) Food Assistance Program is currently feeding orphans and the disabled, in their homes, within the snow-trapped villages, during the hardship months. There are orphaned children, handicapped and poor who have no proper clothing on their backs and often go to bed on empty stomachs. The Food Assistance Program provides food to the most deserving, during their time of need. Although the population is scattered throughout the mountains in small villages, IPSF makes sure that we deliver the gift of food to their doorstep. We would like to invite you to join or help in any way possible. After all, we are in this world for a short time.

If you would like to support the IPSF’s Food Assistance Program here in the USA or overseas, in the HinduKush, Himalayas we would honor your will toward the program you choose.