I used to work with the brother-in-law of the author of this book:
but never knew about the work being done there, the school-building and generosity (or recompense?) being done in the wild regions of the Karakoram and Himalayas.
The fellow I worked with is the only person I have met who has summited Mt Everest and afterwards launched an improvement project of his own, cleaning up the refuse and debris left by climbers.