Comunidad
Paga si puedes
Our own initiative for giving back. We look after people who truly can't afford our services, and we help Himalayan families build homestays and livelihoods — then bring them guests from around the world.
Life in the Himalayan villages we serve — the women, elders and children, their dress, jewellery and craft. · Each photograph is credited on the image
What Pay If You Can does
Fair care for everyone
If you genuinely can't afford our services, tell us. We reduce or waive our own coordination fees case by case and help you find charitable support. Hospital bills are set by the hospitals.
Homestays with tribal families
We help families in Himachal's villages build or repair a roof, add basic facilities like water, toilets and heating, and set up solar power and internet.
Online, and ready for guests
We build each homestay a simple website and booking setup, take good photos, and train hosts in clear standards for hygiene, safety, fair pricing and guest care.
Guests from around the world
We recommend these homestays to our patients, families and Hoppers, so the money stays in the village.
Regenerative tourism
We work with homestays and hostels run by local people — the places that aren't on the map yet. Small groups, local food, local guides and respect for the mountains mean travel that makes communities stronger, not weaker.
10%of net profit, shared with Daughters of the Himalaya
Fondo de Cuidados
The Care Fund: care for people who can't afford it — open to everyone, everywhere
The Care Fund is part of Pay If You Can. Together with Daughters of the Himalaya, it receives 10% of our net profit — and anyone in the world is welcome to be part of it. It helps patients from every country in genuine need, runs a helpline for people in India who can't afford basic healthcare, and provides women's hygiene products.
For patients from every country
Reduced or waived coordination fees, and help finding charitable support for treatment, for patients in genuine need.
A helpline for India
People in India who can't afford basic healthcare can message or call us. We guide them to free and low-cost government and charitable care near them.
Women's hygiene products
Sanitary pads and hygiene kits for women and girls who can't afford them, delivered through local partners and women's self-help groups.
The Care Fund is BookMedTrip's own initiative, paid for from our profits and open to contributions from anyone in the world.
Open to the world
Be part of the Care Fund from day one
The Care Fund isn't only for India, and it isn't only ours. Wherever you live — Lagos, London, Dhaka or Dallas — you're welcome to invest in care from day one: a monthly gift, a one-time gift, your professional skills or your time. Every contribution is recorded, and we report back on what it did.
- Give monthly or once
- Volunteer your skills
- Bring someone who needs help
Our story
Why we began — and why our daughters come first
BookMedTrip was started by two friends who spent years travelling the Himalayas — high valleys, tribal villages and places still almost untouched by the outside world. Families with little to spare welcomed us into their homes and fed us anyway.
We also saw how hard life becomes when snow or landslides close the roads: girls missing school, mothers walking for hours to reach a clinic, no sanitary pads in the village shop. That is why 10% of our net profit goes to the Care Fund and to Daughters of the Himalaya. It isn't charity added later — it's the reason we exist.
We are Indian, and we live the Indian way — with our parents, with our elders, family first. We hope you feel that warmth from your very first message.
Daughters of the Himalaya
In remote Himalayan villages, winter snow and monsoon landslides can close roads for days or weeks. Clinics, schools and shops slip out of reach, and it is the women and girls who bear it most. Together with the Care Fund, this work receives 10% of our net profit, given through registered charities and local women's self-help groups, starting in Himachal Pradesh.
Inspired by the spirit of India's national Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign. BookMedTrip is a private company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of India.
Where we focus
- Health when roads closeHygiene kits and basic health supplies placed in villages before the snow and the rains, and guidance by phone when doctors can't get through.
- Hygiene and dignitySanitary pads and hygiene kits for women and girls who can't afford them, made and delivered with local self-help groups.
- Girls in schoolSchool supplies, warm clothing and safe travel, so girls can keep studying through the hardest months.
- Women's livelihoodsIncome from crafts, homestays and digital skills, with our guests as customers.
From the women of Himachal
We give women artisans and producers from Himachal's villages a place to show their heritage crafts to our guests. Ask us and we'll connect you directly with the makers.
Wild Himalayan honey
From hill villages and forest hives
Himachal apples
Crisp apples from Kinnaur, Shimla and Kullu orchards
Fruit wines and ciders
Visit licensed local wineries — we don't sell or ship alcohol
Sheep-wool rugs and mats
Hand-woven by village weavers
Kullu shawls
Famous geometric borders, a GI-tagged craft
Hand-knitted socks and gloves
Lahauli patterns, warm for the coldest winters
Himachali caps
Woollen caps with hand-woven bands
Chola coats and suthan
Traditional woollen clothing made from hand-woven pattu cloth
Pattu and dhatu
Women's woven wraps and headscarves in bright patterns
Products are made and sold by the artisans themselves. We take no commission from women's self-help groups.
With folded hands
Thank you to the people who care
Every journey we arrange rests on people whose names rarely appear anywhere. They are the heart of BookMedTrip, and we thank them every day.
Our guides
Who know every road, temple and story — and walk at the patient's pace.
Hospital helpers
Who find the right ward, the right desk and the right doctor, again and again.
Our drivers
Who wait through the night, drive gently and become family to our guests.
Our women chefs
Who cook food that tastes of home, for every faith and every diet.
Caretakers & nurses
Who sit beside the bed when the family must rest.
Trainers & teachers
Who prepare our team and bring music, yoga and crafts to long stays.
Special-care staff
Who look after elders and those who need a little more help, with patience and dignity.
Hotel & homestay staff
Who keep rooms warm, quiet and clean — and remember how each guest takes their tea.
Farmers & mountain families
Who grow our food, open their homes and share the Himalayas with our guests.
Welcome, whoever you are
We are a close-knit circle of young, like-minded people — doctors' friends, travellers, technologists and community workers. We are a private company and not affiliated with the Government of India. People from every country are welcome here, in every language, with open arms.
