Reports

To distribute 48 solar flashlights to 48 households in Gongba Village in order to improve the condition of their daily life.

Naljor Prison Dharma Service funded this project

Suonan Zhuoma is from Gongba Village, Hedong Township, Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PRC. She is studying in Qinghai Nationalities University majored in Tibetan and English language.

What: To provide 48 solar flashlights to 48 households in Gongba Village .

Project location
Gongba Village is about 7 kilometers from Guide County; there are about 130 kilometers which takes 2 and half hours by bus from Guide to Xining, the capital city of Qinghai Province.

Brief Description of Implementation
There are 350households in Gongba village, and the project manager received 48 solar flashlights from Shem Women’s Group on June 12^th, 2009. When Gongba village leader Xiang Qian had holding meeting with the villagers about agricultural business , the project manager Suonan Zhuoma took the chance and chose 48 poor families based on their herding, farming land, family condition and income. After chose 48 families, project manager’s sister helped Suonan Zhuoma to take photos and distribute the solar lights to the villagers while the Suonan Zhuoma explained the usage of solar flashlights. Some villagers who received the solar flashlights said that it is fashionable and the quality is very good and other villagers said it will be very convenient to irrigate the fields at the night with the new solar flashlights.

Photos of the project implementation

Those people are the project beneficiaries, they are very happy to receive the solar light. The young boy sitting on the left is named Song Wei, he is 17 years old and there are two people in his family. His father is 50 years old and his parents divorced many years ago. So he lives with his father now. Because of the poor living condition on maintain and lack of labor at home, he didn’t go to school after the primary school. Although he is still young, he goes out every year to make money. After received the solar light, he said that he can use flashlight in the night if he has things to do at night.  The man sits in the middle is 52 years old .There are 3 people in his family and his father is lying in the hospital waiting for operation, so he is working hard to make money to prepare for the operation. He said that flashlight can help his wife in the hospital when she goes to toilet .The man in the right is Song Lian Cai, his parents died in a few years ago and he is still single. He said that flashlight will be very useful when they irrigate fields at night.

This young man is Sengyuan and he is a Chinese guy. His father died with heart disease and later his mother also got sick, so he has to work hard and takes care of his mother. On behalf of all the villagers who received solar flashlights, he said thanks to the staff of Shem Women’s Group and the kind donor.

The Beneficiaries name list

The name list of Beneficiaries in Chinese Pinying

Thank You Letter

Thank you letter translation

Dear thankful Donor,
I am a simple villager from Gongba Village, Hedong Township, Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province and I am also one of the project beneficiaries.
On behalf of those 48 poor families in our village I would like to say thank you for your kind helps. It has been very hard for the villagers to buy such a good quality solar flashlights and today we received the solar flashlights from you. Those solar flashlights could solve some daily problems we have in countryside and is very useful when we irrigate field in the night. Therefore, today I am representing all these project beneficiaries to say thanks and please accept the gratefulness from our heart.

By Xiang Qian