Issuing a statement the embassy announced this year’s recipients of the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP). “The U.S. Embassy will provide that much of amount to the institute for preservation of the 11th-Century Richenling Monastery in Halji, Humla District. This historic monastery is at risk of destruction due to flooding from a rapidly-forming glacial lake to the north,” reads the statement. [break]
The second AFCP-funded project will support for conserving ethnographic objects at Changu Narayan in Bhaktapur, one of the oldest religious and cultural sites in the Kathmandu Valley.
The AFCP was established by U.S. Congress, which has been administered by the Department of States. The AFCP has supported the preservation of cultural sites, cultural objects and forms of traditional cultural expression since 2001.
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