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

Reports

Second Hand Clothing Project for Lhakang Village
Project Manager: Klu mo skyid (Lisa)

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

Private donors funded this project

Klu mo skyid is from Lhakang Village, Bao’an Township, Tongren County (Rebgong County), Huangnan Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. She is studying for her Bachelor’s Degree in Qinghai Normal University.

What: To provide Second-Hand clothing to three poor families in Lhakang Village in order to improve their living condition.

Project Location: Lhakang Village, Rebgong County, Huangnan Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China

Brief Description of Implementation
The project was implemented on May, 5th, 2008. It was the time that all the young people went out to dig caterpillar fungus. There were just old people in the families. All the students come home, so I took that chance and distributed the clothes to three poor families among Lhakang Villagers. Firstly; I talked to our village leaders about the second hand clothing. And then we chose three poor families according to their economic situation and how many members does each family have. Finally, we took clothes to those families and distributed to them. They were very happy about this project.

Interviews

interview 1
The second hand clothes arrived in the village and the project manager prepares to distribute to the villagers.

interview2
Her name is Jimaogyal, she is thirty years old this year. Her husband was died several years ago. She has two children. Both of them are going to school in Mapa Qunwu primary school. In her family, there is only she works; she does all of housework and farmland work. Whenever she faces any difficulty, she has no one to share with.

interview3
Her name is zhaxizhoma, she is a middle school student in Mapa middle school. There are six people in her family. Both her parents are farmers. All of them are depend on the farmland. So it’s quite hard to pay her tuition. She is studying very hard in the school.

List of recipients

recipients

Lhalongkyi

Zhaxizhoma

wandegyal

wangqin

Jimaogyal

sangduogyal

Duojeexam

Nymkyitso

Thank You Letter

thank you letter

Translated thanks letter

Dear donors

Your clothes already received in our poor families hands. We will never forget that you send us the clothes from such further place to our poor place. Especially you helped us who had never worn single new clothes for many years. We will say thank you very much for your generosity.

Sincerely yours,

Wandegyal

October 3rd, 2008