Project Needs and Beneficiaries

12 million Nepalese live in the Himalayan foothills where rivers are hazardous obstacles to education, health care and markets. Limited access denies many children an education, discourages proper health care, and increases the cost of goods. To cross more than 10 meters, there have been only two alternatives: an extremely dangerous cable 'tween' wherein a makeshift trapeze or wooden box hangs from a pulley that often crushes the user’s fingers, or an expensive suspended walking bridge.

Activities

Since 1998, EcoSystems has built 31 gondola-like WireBridges over dangerous rivers in Nepal at a quarter the cost of suspended bridges. Requiring only 2 to 4 months to complete, EcoSystems can build 12 bridges per year and easily expand its capacity

Organization