Bridges accross Hewa Khola Electricity Fishpond Health Centre Kindergarten Old-age home Reconstruction of houses Road from Chhulemu Sanitation Trecking route to Khumbu Village centre Village school Waste management Water supply Winegrowing

The cultivation of vines has two advantages: Their roots grow deep into the soil and thus provide a natural protection against landslides, and the grapes are a healthy and nutricious food. Lhakpa Doma Sherpa has started to introduce vine stocks in Hewa in 2015 when she brought first plants from Rebencenter Dreher in Auggen in Southwest Germany. More vine stocks have been introduced year by year, after the first plants proved to have grown well. Klaus Bender, the chairman of Verein Nepal-Inzlingen, has brought more plants whenever he visited the village; Rebencenter Dreher even donated some of these plants. It is planned to extend the cultivation of vine stocks in the years to come, in Hewa as well as in the adjacent small hamlet of Siteling. A vine stock planted in December 2015 (Source of both picture: Klaus Bender) Dawa Sherpa and Klaus Bender planting a vine stock in October 2016