Kalap Trust

Kalap Trust, is an NGO working for equal access to education, healthcare and livelihood opportunities in the remote upper Tons Valley, Uttarakhand, India

[Kalap Trust @kalaptrust]

The mountains you love are in trouble and they need your help, desperately. We were desperately hoping that this day doesn't come. It has.

We are working with the district administration in our Tehsil (Mori, Uttarkashi District, Uttarakhand) to set up a Covid-care Centre

[Historywali @historywali]

Buda and Budi’s - that’s Ujjwal Singh & Bajuri Devi’s Harvest of Organic, Crisp, Cherry Red Apples is up for takes on https://t.co/N4BOr7dXCF (hit the organic apples link) over the next 3-4 days or till stock lasts. Get yourself a box?
These are my favourite Apples. 🍎

[Historywali @historywali]

Buda and Budi have never sold their apples before, they’d keep their harvest for family, for the villagers, send a sack over to us, but this year, there’s been a sweet little bumper harvest that we’re helping them send out to all corners of the country.

[Historywali @historywali]

The Apples though are legendary in the Valley. That deep red. And now what’s truly special is that this Apple Harvest is up for sale for the VERY FIRST TIME, yup.

[Historywali @historywali]

More context. There is no motorable road to Kalap/Karba. So when the Apple harvest does happen, the apples must be carried 6 hours down one mountain, across a stream with a pulley, and up another mountain to the closest road, on mules.

[Historywali @historywali]

Everyone moves downhill to Kalap for the winter. Everyone except Buda & Budi. They stay back, snowed in with no way to communicate with the rest of the world (no phones don’t work, and the path to Karba is snowed in) to tend to their Apple trees and guard them from Langurs.

[Historywali @historywali]

Now some years ago Buda & Budi planted 200 Apple Trees around their home in the 13-hut settlement that Karba is - a tiny offshoot of Kalap village. Karba is at an easy 8,500 - 9,000 ft. It gets completely snowed in, in the winter months. Icy cold. -8C to -10C is regular.

[Historywali @historywali]

This first image is from right after we got engaged when @kalapian_ took me up to Karba to meet Buda & Budi. Others are from early days when he’d camp in their tiny but cozy and welcoming home (yeah that’s the door to their home in pic 3, Anand has to crawl in and out obvs). 🤍

[Historywali @historywali]

If you’ve been around for a while, you know Buda and Budi - our mountain parents - they make an appearance often on mine & @kalapian_’s feeds. This image too will be familiar.

[Kalap Trust @kalaptrust]

There is something small and special available from our Tons Valley through our partner social enterprise @tonsvalleyshop

Read on to find out... 🥰

[Historywali @historywali]

If you’ve been around for a while, you know Buda and Budi - our mountain parents - they make an appearance often on mine & @kalapian_’s feeds. This image too will be familiar.

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

This is a box with 25 handpicked pears sleeping cosy for their journey ahead.

You have one such box delivered to you if you order immediately from, https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

We have only some 160 boxes still left in stock, if you hurry you can snap one up!

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

These bucket full of pears are heading into our processing centre to be packed into small boxes to be sent to all corners of India.

https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

This is famer Negi's son, who is already climbing trees to pluck pears for customers who have been ordering boxes from all over India since today morning.

https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

In case you have never tried pears from our own Himalayas, farmer Devender Singh Negi tells you why you must buy!

https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

This freshly harvested pear can be nestling in your palm. It has been nurtured by winter snow, spring sun and now cool summer rain to give you the perfect crunch!

https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

Say hello to fresh & crisp pears from the upper Tons Valley in Uttarakhand!

Did you know they can be home with you in less than 4 days?

https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

[Kalap Trust @kalaptrust]

It is fruit season in our upper Tons Valley! There are fresh and crisp pears grown by local farmers available for sale through @tonsvalleyshop , a social enterprise working in our region.

Head over to https://t.co/888ny8kWEt and snag a box of fresh fruit direct from the orchard!

[Tons Valley Shop @tonsvalleyshop]

Say hello to fresh & crisp pears from the upper Tons Valley in Uttarakhand!

Did you know they can be home with you in less than 4 days?

https://t.co/EYhY0pt6rF

[Kalap Trust @kalaptrust]

That is so awesome Mayur! We can't wait to have you come up to us again!

[Mojo Talks with Mayur Channagere @mayurchannagere]

THE JOY OF SEEING THE PRINTS IS UN-MATCHED.

Prints getting ready from the @kalaptrust donation drive.

Thank you all for the support.

[GaonConnection @GaonConnection]

सभी मुश्किलों को पार करते हुए @kalaptrust ने जिला प्रशासन के साथ मिलकर काम किया और टोंस घाटी के मोरी में पांच बेड का कोविड केयर सेंटर बनाया। साथ ही गांवों के लिए लंगर भी लगाया। और ये सब काम सिर्फ 96 घंटों में किया गया।
@historywali @kalapian_ #Uttarakhand
https://t.co/wWCLusdbiC

[Shivani Gupta @Gupta_Shivanii]

Braving all odds, @kalaptrust worked with the district administration to set up a five-bed oxygen-support #COVID-care facility in Mori in the upper Tons Valley and organised langars in the villages, in all of 96 hours.
@historywali https://t.co/sZ5qyat4GE

[Kalap Trust @kalaptrust]

Our 2021 COVID RELIEF story so far, documented by @historywali for @GaonConnection 🤗

[Gaon Connection English @GaonConnectionE]

When #COVID19 reaches the villages of #Uttarakhand, how does one cope? @historywali writes about how they set up a five-bed oxygen-support facility in #Uttarakhand’s #UpperTonsValley.
@kalaptrust @TIRATHSRAWAT #COVIDSecondWave
https://t.co/p45oIqPvkv