what we do
ATMA is a grassroots NGO supporting healthy communities in the Himalayas.
The Himalayas are the world's highest mountain range home to almost 40 million people and spread across 5 South Asian countries: India, Nepal, Pakistan, China and Bhutan. Given the harsh environment, geographic remoteness and limited infrastructure, communities in the Himalayas experience tremendous hardship.
Developed in 2012, off the back of 3 years of medical research expeditions in high altitude regions across the developing world, ATMA gives a voice to people living in the furthest corners of the Himalayas.
ATMA provides local communities with the means to help themselves. Through grant funding ATMA helps local organizations in the Himalayas (i.e. our regional partners) provide the services their communities need while ATMA researchers provide their expertise in health, economic and development policy. ATMA plays to both parties’ strengths by tapping into the resources available in the developed world and merging this with the energy and desire to create change from local organizations in the developing world.
At ATMA we offer communities the means to help themselves and we strive to establish a truly equal partnership between donor and receiver.
ATMA does not send volunteers overseas. We believe that the considerable resources spent in doing so are better utilized when given to our regional partners in the Himalayas. We believe empowering local NGOs to improve health outcomes in their own communities is a more ethical and sustainable way of creating change.
The Himalayas are the world's highest mountain range home to almost 40 million people and spread across 5 South Asian countries: India, Nepal, Pakistan, China and Bhutan. Given the harsh environment, geographic remoteness and limited infrastructure, communities in the Himalayas experience tremendous hardship.
Developed in 2012, off the back of 3 years of medical research expeditions in high altitude regions across the developing world, ATMA gives a voice to people living in the furthest corners of the Himalayas.
ATMA provides local communities with the means to help themselves. Through grant funding ATMA helps local organizations in the Himalayas (i.e. our regional partners) provide the services their communities need while ATMA researchers provide their expertise in health, economic and development policy. ATMA plays to both parties’ strengths by tapping into the resources available in the developed world and merging this with the energy and desire to create change from local organizations in the developing world.
At ATMA we offer communities the means to help themselves and we strive to establish a truly equal partnership between donor and receiver.
ATMA does not send volunteers overseas. We believe that the considerable resources spent in doing so are better utilized when given to our regional partners in the Himalayas. We believe empowering local NGOs to improve health outcomes in their own communities is a more ethical and sustainable way of creating change.