Solar Cooker Project for Chalitong Village
Project Manager: Gelsang Lamu(Betty)
Buy 80 solar cooker for the villagers to use as a beneficial cooking tool, which can lead to a safer environment and protect the trees as well.
Funds needed: $1956  (15100 rmb)

Running Water Project for Mingzhu Village
Project Manager: Lumo Tsering (Corine)
Build a running water system for 40 households in Huadi village, the middle school in Rdo Sbis and the primary schools in Rdo Sbis Township. increasiong access to water will ion turn decrease women's workload, increase women and children's free time, and decrease health problems in the village.
Funds needed: $12, 431  (97,640 rmb)

Barrier Wall Project for Yatong Village
Project Manager: Tashi Hlamo (Charlene)
Build a barrier wall for the 200 people of Yatong Village, blocking the floodwaters from the river, and protecting the village and monastery. People will be safe and the floods will not destroy their homes and belongings.
The German Embassy funded this project

Threshing Machines for Gala Village
Project Manager: Tsering Drolma (Daisy)
Buy five threshing machines for Gala village. Lessen the village women's work load, thereby improving their living standards.
The Shambala Connection funded this project

Xining City Tibetan Language Training Program
Project Manager: Rendzen jyi (Caitlyn)
Buy 160 Tibetan language instructional books and other study materials, hire two teachers and to rent two classrooms for the Basba Sun Tibetan School. establish a school where the Tibetan children can learn their own language, and to save Tibetan language from dying out
John Li and Holly Gayley funded this project

English Literacy Program for Padma County
Project Manager: Tashitso (Joy)
Train 90 students for one month to be sufficiently proficient in English. Improve the students' English level and aid them in passing the government employment exam and getting further education.
John Li Funded this project

Cultural Preservation for Tawa Gongma Nunnery
Project Manager: Samtsogye (Whitney)
This project will preserve the cultural traditions of the Tawa Gongma nunnery by providing the nuns with a Dharma wheel with two deer thus completing the rebuilding of the Nunnery's prayer hall
Kitty Makley funded this project

School Expenses Loan for Daxing Students
Project Manager: Tserang Lhamo(Melanie)
Help the poor students in Daxing Township to attain an education and to increase enrollment rates in the township. Pprovide convenient access to funds for parents and students in order to reduce the financial troubles they face in paying for an education.
Shem Women's Group donors funded this project

Cultural Preservation for Xialadi Village
Project Manager: Padmatso (Bethany)
Strengthen Tibetan culture and teach younger generations about religion, Strengthen community ties, Provide a place for lay people and practitioners to worship and conduct rituals and practices,  Encourage daily exercise,  Raise morale.
A private donor funded this project

Solar Cookers for Axi Village
Project Manager: Drolmatso (Delores)
buy 60 solar cookers for the people of Axi Village. this will improve villagers' living conditions, reduce the heavy burden on women, and increase girls' school attendance.
The Shambala Connection funded this project

Water
Potable water for ZarshiKe Village: improve the lives of the villagers in ZarshiKe Village. The main goal of this project is to supply Zarshi ke Village with a clean and dependable drinking water supply

Solar Power
Solar cookers for Yehe Village, Heluoshi Village, Tawa Gongma Nunnery; Solar electricity generating panels for yuanyi and Garima villages. Lighten women's burden and increase local people's income, thereby increasing school attendance and quality of life.

Education
Ri Zang Primary boarding school improvement; Book project for Pros'gang Primary school and Dongdatan school.Provide adequate resources for the students, creating a better teaching and learning experiences for all involved.

Infrastructure
Bridge for Me Re Ma Township; Greenhouses for Heluoshi Village.Lighten women's burden and increase local people's income, thereby increasing school attendance and quality of life.

Income Generation
Aluminum Milk Churns for Fudi Village women; Greenhouses for Heluoshi Village; Yak Loan for Jmda area. Create a sustainable and reliable income. Increase school attendance. Lighten women's burden.

Clothing
Distribute second-hand clothing to impoverished villagers across the Tibetan Plateau. Improve the quality of life for the poorest of the poor.

Unburied
Author: Drolmatso (Eva)
"If you are gold, no matter how deep you've been buried, people will dig you up someday."...I cannot wait for someone to discover me. Rather, I have to move away the earth that covers me. All my experiences from my childhood until now have impressed upon me the fact that if you want other people to acknowledge your value, you must struggle for it.

Little Woman
Author: Wendedrolma (Wanda)
Her face was bruised and covered with different colors, green and red. Both of her hands were swollen. She filled her bucket with water. I could do nothing for her except cry. I cried loudly in her warm arms. She didn't say anything, stroking my hair with her large swollen hand, and crying herself. A while later, she walked back home unsteadily, carrying a bucket full of water.

Growth
Author: Pagbatso (Cindy)
It is early morning I turn to look at Mother and my sister's bed. I can see my little sister sleeping soundlessly, wrapped in a quilt. Mother is gone. Hearing the yaks moaning, I look at the adobe stove in the middle of the tent. There is no fire. Then I pull up my quilt (mother's old robe) and begin to wonder what Father is doing in town. Does he really have something important to do there?

The More You Know...
Author: Sonamjid (Jessica)
That was the first time I had seen my father cry. His tears moved me; I was sure that he really cared about me because otherwise, how could a man shed such tears? I agreed to go school and a sweet smile appeared on my father's face again. “You will understand me one day," he said proudly.

Nangsa Obum and I
Author: Dawadrolma (Britney)
Difficulties can make people lose their minds. Seeing me, an extraordinarily thin creature who screamed all day long, my father decided to cast me off. My mother had no objection, for the empty house had no space for my eating bowl.

My Hands are Bleeding from the Straw
Author: Renzenji (Caitlyn)
My mother led the five of us to the fields, where we picked up every single grain from among the shoots of straw, which were seven inches high and razor sharp. As we picked up the bits of grain, the straw stabbed our hands until they bled. Adter a full day of work, the five of us gathered only one and half sacks of grain.

I Will Stand Up
Author: Samtsogye (Whitney)
My birth differed from that of other girls in the village because my family wished for a daughter. Most people in the village did not think this way. When a girl was born, most families make the girl stay at home and find a husband as quickly as they can. None of them considered sending their daughters to school

The Fish and the Lake
Author: Chugpilhamo (Aba-Lily)
I was born in a Tibetan nomadic area where very few were educated, and most people did not value education. They usually made their children help them herd livestock, milk, cut yak or sheep-hair, and collect fuel. Thus many children could not get an education. Luckily, my parents were different; they value education highly because their life has been difficult without it.

Poverty, Violence, and Hope
Author: Tserangdrolma (Daisy)
Your grandfather Tashi thinks that you'd better marry the Chinese carpenter. He said life would be much easier for you this way. What do you think?" my mother said painfully. She moved her eyes away from me and pretended to look at the far away mountains . Her expression told me that she was afraid to hurt me and she was anxiously awaiting my answer.