The HWF has been formally active in the Raikot Valley in the Northern Areas since 1992.  It was instrumental in developing the area known to tourists as Fairy Meadows, into a thriving campsite area; the organisation was responsible for designing low-impact tourist facilities and training local community residents to manage these campsites. The HWF also initiated two small-scale water supply schemes in the local village of Tato.
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The first was a drinking water supply project, implemented with financial assistance from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); the second was a larger, irrigation water supply project largely funded and implemented by the local community, with financial and technical support from the HWF.  These projects have

helped trigger further development programs and mobilised the local community into initiating other infrastructural and social initiatives.