Comprehensive health camps
Volunteer teams travel with medicines, testing equipment and experienced clinicians to communities that may be days from a hospital.
Eye care · Ear, nose and throat care · Dental care · Women’s health · Children’s care
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Healthcare, one step at a time.
Follow a Nepal-led team as it brings eye care, hearing and throat care, bone and joint care, dentistry, women’s health, children’s care and general medicine to a remote Himalayan community.
Our mission
Distance should not decide who receives care.
Ek Ek Paila means “one step at a time.” That is how care reaches Nepal’s most isolated communities: one volunteer, one journey and one patient at a time.
Friends of Ek Ek Paila is the US nonprofit supporting this Nepal-led work. Medical teams collaborate with local governments, health posts and hospitals, then return when patients need treatment, surgery or follow-up care.
How the model worksTen years of steps
Care measured in people, not miles.
35,385+patients served
78,162+consultations
33major outreach camps
12+areas of care
Reported by Ek Ek Paila Foundation, 2025.
The work
A complete chain of care.
A health camp is not a single clinic day. It begins with local need and continues through treatment, referral and follow-up.
Treatment and surgery
People receive treatment at the camp and, when needed, are connected with surgery, hospital care and a safe path home.
Vision-restoring surgery · Dental procedures · Bone and joint care · ReferralsCare that continues
Local health workers and partner hospitals help patients receive follow-up care while each camp strengthens the community’s health network.
Follow-up · Prevention · Local partnerships · Community health
A long road ahead
The map has changed. The mission has not.
The August 26 flood devastated communities across northern Nepal, including villages that have hosted Ek Ek Paila health camps. Recovery will take years. The relationships and health network built in these communities will remain vital as families rebuild their lives.
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Every gift helps put medicines, equipment, travel and follow-up care within reach of communities across Nepal.
Friends of Ek Ek Paila Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN 99-1992464. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.