Shem Women's Group - empowering Tibetan women and their communities through grassroots development

Reports

Second Hand Clothes Project for Ohimha Village
Project Manager: JiakmoTsering (Kristina)

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To provide Second-Hand clothing to the poorest families in Qhimha Village in order to improve their living condition.

Private donors funded this project

JiakmoTsering is from Regong County, Rmalho Tibetan autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. She is currently working towards BA degree in English at the Qinghai Normal University Nationalities Department English Training Program.
Project Location
The project took place in Qhimha Village, Rebgong County, HuangNan Prefecture, Qinghai Province, and China. There are 200 kilometers from Xining city to Qhimha village and its 5 kilometers away from Rebgong to Qhimha village.
Brief Description of Implementation

The project was implemented on October 1st of 2008. It was the time of National holiday in China. I took that chance and distributed the clothes to the poorest families among Qhimha Villagers. Firstly; I talked to our village leaders about the second hand clothing project. And then we chose the three poorest families according to their economic situation and how many members each family has. Finally, we took clothes to those families and distributed to them. They were really enthusiastic toward this project, especially their children.
Photos of the beneficiaries
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Her name is Renchiltso; she is thirty-eight years old. She has three children. An unfortunate thing happened to her five yeas ago, her husband died because of tuberculoses. Now she is alone to take care of three children. Her family condition is really poor, but she is trying her best to send her children to schools to get education. As she said education is really important for children in the future, she is happy to contribute let her children to go to school. When she received those clothes she is really happy and she thanks the donor. She said this can save a lot of money and also her children can be warm in such cold weather. She was saying that she was not good at talking, but from bottom of her heart to say thanks very much to these kindhearted contributors.
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Her name is Lumo Qhidon. She is fifteen years old. Now she is in Tongren middle school in HuangNan Prefecture. Her father was passed away when she was eight years old. In addition, her mother is disabling. During the holiday or weekends, she always helps her mother to do housework. She has never wore new clothes, all her clothes are given by other relatives.
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Her name is Tsetarkid. She is thirteen years old. Her mother abandoned her when she was three years old. All the way, her father takes care of her. At the moment she is in Tongren middle school. She likes to study very much, but her father could not cook for himself and do all the housework. So, her fortune is unlikely hold by herself. When she got these clothes, she was very excited to receive such clean clothes.

List of recipients
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Renchitso

Drolhe

Lumo Qhidon

Nhanka Tar

Tsetarkid

Yangjhan Tso

Tsering Jia

Zhougyip

Huadan Ben

Luben Tsering

Thanks letter
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Dear generous donors,

I am from a village which is located in a valley. Our village is a farming village; because of the bad weather our land couldn’t produce a good harvest. We hardly support our daily life. At such a predicament, you are kindhearted contributors help us and solve our basic problems. This helps us to save our money and improve our living condition. As our poor living condition, we really have difficulties of spending much money to buy clothes. However, this time we received these clothes and we really appreciate this contribution. Thank you very much for your great contribution.

We want to say thank you very much to those donors and we will never forget your help. We wish you everything goes well with them. Once again thank you very much.

                                                                                                From all Qhimha Villagers

                                                                                                  October 1st 2008