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ABOUT KVPT
The Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, World Heritage Site and environs have been a
founded in 1991, was the first private INGO to focus of restoration work and historical research,
carry out architectural restoration as a 501(c)(3) as well as advocacy efforts. Since 1991, the
US-based charity with full tax-deductible status. architectural restoration projects of the Trust
KVPT remains the only international charity in have provided long-term employment for more
Nepal registered in this field and dedicated to than 50 Nepalese laborers, craftsmen, project
the safeguarding of the country’s extraordinary managers, engineers and architects.
architectural heritage.
KVPT has been recognized as a leader in
The Trust is notable for a fundraising base which developing appropriate conservation technology
brings together private and public funding, for the Kathmandu Valley’s monuments, including
as well as local Nepalese and international the development of carefully tailored seismic
donors. Matching schemes have been a key reinforcement techniques.
tool in the funding of more than 45 architectural
restoration projects. The Patan Darbar Square
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