This project is to buy 58 solar panels for 58 households in Budu Village to provide enough electricity to the 58 families in Budu Village, increasing the students’ study time at night and making it possible to watch TV during their spare time. It will also decrease the amount of money spent on candles, flashlight batteries and butter lamps.
Funds needed: $9,710.52 (61,118rmb)
This project is to provide 21 computers and a projector for Yushu Prefecture Profession and Technology School. In order to rebuild the school’s infrastructure which was damaged in the earthquake while at the same time motivating students’ study interests, increase their knowledge and better prepare the students for higher learning and job opportunities.
Funds needed: $4,515.09 (28,418rmb)
This project aimed at financially supporting an urgent need of 35 solar panels for 2 villages in Gyegu Township, Yushu Prefecture that were severely damaged by an earthquake. The solar panels will supply light and power for basic heating tools during a 3-year or longer period for 500 victims of the earthquake who are still living in tents.
Norlha funded this project
This project is to buy 154 carts and 154 shovels for Gongqing Village for collecting yak dung and carrying yak dung from the livestock yard to the drying place in order to reduce Gongqing village women’s workload, and allow them to have more time for taking care of the babies and elders in the family. This project will also help the villagers to increase fuels and income by collecting more yak dung by the shovels and carts.
Hans and Mr.Wang
This project is to hire 50 villagers for a 17-day employment contract to collect the garbage throughout Kawagebo sacred pilgrimage route; giving financial assistance to the villagers, and more importantly protecting the environment of the sacred mountain. 100 locally-made bamboo baskets will be left on the trees along the sacred route. Additionally, the villagers will bring saplings back to the home village, and grow them on the barren mountainsides, where the pine trees were logged down for various reasons.
Funds needed: $13,760 (89,000rmb)
This project is to provide 21 computers and a projector for Yushu Prefecture Profession and Technology School. In order to rebuild the school’s infrastructure which was damaged in the earthquake while at the same time motivating students’ study interests, increase their knowledge and better prepare the students for higher learning and job opportunities.
Funds needed: $10,731 (69,400rmb)
This project is to buy 56 solar cookers for Dor Ra Village in order to
decrease women’s burden as well as families’ burden, and improve villagers’ (especially women’s) health condition by using solar cookers instead of wood, yak dung and coal.
Funds needed: $1,856 (12,000rmb)
This project is to host a four-day health training in Stag rig village and invite two neighboring villages women’s leaders to educate village women about common health problems, the importance of caring about women’s health problems and also the methods to prevent gynecological diseases, in order to prevent diseases and improve the health conditions of local villagers, especially women in Stagrig Village.
Hans funded this project
This project is to buy 42 harvest machines for 42 households in Nor’ ur Village, in order to decrease people’s labor, and save their grain from insect and weather .
Funds needed: $9,180 (59,725rmb)
This project is to buy 15 cows for the 15 poorest households in order to improve the health, education and living conditions of the villagers in Xunwa Village.
Funds needed: $6,080 (41,500rmb)
This project is to buy 20 threshing machines for six villages in Jialaxi Township to alleviate the village women’s workload and furthermore to improve family living condition.
Hans funded this project
This project is to empower more Tibetan women to write their life stories, ideas, and to value education. An additional goal of this project is to encourage more people to value women’s education on the Tibetan Plateau.
Youth Group from Vienna funded this project
