Our Projects
Education
Maya Sherpa Project provides two levels of scholarships:
Sustaining Scholarships. This is a commitment to provide ongoing financial support for a student in need. The parents often come to us with their young daughter, aged 7 or 8, and ask for help. The family is vetted and the children are given support for the remainder of their schooling, usually to age 16 or 17. The goal is to have them schooled in a variety of subjects, including English, so that they are able to get a job.
Dali Sherpa has been supported by the organization since 2012. Surrounded by friends at the Mount Everest English Boarding school.
Annual Scholarships. This is a sponsored situation in which a child or family of children are supported by an individual sponsor. There is often a personal connection between the giver and the Sherpa family and, as such, the support is direct and lasts as long as the sponsor contributes.
Kunsung Sherpa 
Pemba Sherpa with young boy sponsored by MSP 
Sons of Dawa Phuti Sherpa
With both types of scholarships, each child is known personally to our organization and followed carefully. Twice-yearly visits are made to all the families and the child’s report cards are shared.
Two Sherpa girls who receive annual scholarships. 
Dawa Phuti Sherpa sons who are sponsored by the Cairns Family
Providing secular education to young student monks. This is a third type of educational program provided by the Maya Sherpa Project. The young monks or “tawas” of the Changmityang Monastery in the village of Mera are given classes in English, math and social sciences. These subjects round out their spiritual teaching and provide them with a larger world view. The Maya Sherpa Project had a special fundraiser in 2019 and was able to add computers to their curriculum. In spite of their remote location and basic living conditions, computers are considered an integral part of their education.
Computer classroom at the monastery 
Two young Tawas 
Tawas at the Mera monastery
Health Care
The Mera Village Health Clinic receives funding for staffing by the Maya Sherpa Project and Mountain Spirit/Deutschland.
Special Projects
Installing a wind turbine at the monastery 
Moving the large plastic water tanks to Mera via tractor
Over the years, there have been special requests for assistance in the local villages.
The Maya Sherpa Project provided educational support for the children of those Sherpa men lost in the 2014 avalanche on Mount Everest.
The Maya Sherpa Project provided financial support for infrastructure issues after the 2015 earthquake. These projects included: supplying emergency goods, creating a new foot trail to a cut-off village, rebuilding outdoor toilets at a school, new desks and benches for schools, and fixing a damaged water supply for the Mera Village and monastery.