About Us

We actually started working on our idea to help the children and people of the remote Villages in the Himalayas before the summer of 2001, and were in the process of getting our approval from the NY Board of Education to build schools there. Abbey traveled back to his home land, returning to New York in late August of 2001, and were incorporated in early 2002.

H20 became our symbol. "H" for the Himalayas, the majestic mountains that rise to the heavens, and 2-0 the year we took up the challenge. Himal is a local name for mountains.

H20 our name and the symbol for water, is the source that feeds the terraced rice fields in the Himalayas and the source of all life and renewal.

We had many ideas for programs that would help the area. But it was the children who spoke first, asking for help with their tiny school up in the remote area in a Tea Garden, that spurred us on and gave us our first challenge. Due to lack of funds it had closed, but we were able to re-open it and it became our first ekids Village School.

We are now in our eigth year with three schools running along with a new school that we are currently working with. ekids Village, as the education and new schools program of H20, also helps by providing funds for educational programs for secondary schools in the Himalayas. In 2008 we contributed to the training of 100 teachers, and in March of 2008, we opened one of our new schools in Melli, Sikkim.

The requests from the Villages and local leaders continues. With the help of the local villages, private donations and funding, H20 strives to fill all their requests. Our enthusiasm grows as we do, as we work to provide more programs and a hopeful and happy future for the people who have lived in the remoteness of the mountains as the forgotten ones for so long.