Here is the plan as it stands, and we will say plainly where it is still open.

What

We are going to build one multi-level home for several families connected to our kids who lost theirs in the August 2026 flood. Built properly, by Nepali builders, us, and whoever comes with us. It costs about $30,000: materials and local labor, and that is the whole budget. If the valley is still closed when we arrive, we switch to another family who needs it. The money follows the need, not the plan. If we raise more than the home costs, it builds for the next family in the same valley.

When

March 12 to April 4, 2027, give or take a day or two at each end. Come for any part of that window.

Who can come

Anyone who can carry a bucket and take direction from a Nepali builder. No skills needed, no age limit, no cap on numbers. Families welcome. You can come for a week or stay the whole month. You pay your own flights to Kathmandu plus a trip fee that covers your transport, lodging and food while you are with us; the fee is being set now. Every dollar raised through the Sahara 120 goes into the home, not the trip.

What you see

This is not a work camp. Between build days: a day with the Unatti Foundation and the other children's homes we have funded since 2009. Pokhara, with sunrise over the Annapurnas from Sarangkot and a boat on Phewa Lake. Kathmandu and Bhaktapur, the stupas and the old squares, and the back streets where our kids grew up. A jeep safari in Chitwan, where we put on our first tin roofs in 2009. For those staying the month, the Everest Base Camp trek, about two weeks from Lukla. For everyone else, the one hour mountain flight along the Himalayan wall.

Where you sleep

A hotel in Kathmandu on the city days. A guesthouse or tents near the build site on the build days.

What a day looks like

Early start, work until the heat, a long lunch, work until the light goes. Evenings are the best part. If you have never sat on a roof in the hills in Nepal with a cup of tea while a village goes quiet, that alone is worth the flight.

What we still need to settle

The trip fee per person, and the day by day schedule. We will post both here the moment we have them, and the volunteer list gets them by email first.

If you want to come, leave your name. If you cannot come, sponsor a kilometer and you are building it anyway.