Project Manager: Limao Cairang (Corrine)
This Project is to host a three-day health training in Rdo Sbis Township 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 to improve the health conditions of local women.
The Australian Embassy funded this project
Lumo Tsering is from Xunhua County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province, China. She graduated with an associate’s degree from Qinghai Normal University’s English Training Program in January 2008. She is currently working as one of the program directors at Shem Women’s Group.
What? To host health training in Rdo Sbis Township 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 to improve the health conditions of local women.
Who? Women in Rdo Sibis Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province.
Photos of project implementation
This is the first day of health training in Rdo Sbis Township governmental yard; because it is too cold to hold the training in the meeting hall in the morning, the participants suggested to hold the training outside the meeting hall in the sun. In this picture the participants were sitting in the circle and listening to the doctor.
The women in the picture is the president of Xunhua County Women’s Federation, Rdo Sibs Township leader invites her to participate the training and in the picture she is giving a short speech about how important it is for the women to be healthy.
The doctor gets feedback from the women after discussing proper hygiene when using the toilet.
Considering that most of women usually don’t have money in their pocket, the project manager decided to give each participant 5 RMB, so that they can have lunch in the afternoon. This woman is named Tsemo and she is receiving the money after she signed the paper.
These are the hygiene materials the project manager bought from Xining City. It includes: one basin, two tubes of toothpaste, one toothbrush, one pair of plastic gloves, one cotton towel, and a packet of napkins for each woman who participated the training. These materials are brought according to doctor’s suggestion and our experiences in the past doing health training projects.
This woman is one of the health training participants on the first day. After the first part of the health training, people ask her to sing song to thank the project manager and the doctor and she offers project manager Kadangk (a traditional Tibetan scarf people offer to thank or greet others) after she sang the song.
This is the second health training in Niamu Village. Women in this village gathered outside of Mani hall and listening to the doctor (the woman with pink scarf, sitting with paper in her hand.) Originally we were going to hold the training inside Mani Hall, but all the women said that Mani hall is too cold in the morning and they want to sit in the sun. Also in the Mani Hall there are some old man chatting, so it is not convenient to talk about health problems. Because women are the ones who need to take care of their children, they are not able to come to the health training alone and most of women came to the training with their children on their back or in their robe like the women in this picture.
This is one of the Salar women participants; because of the language barrier, she didn’t get most of what the doctor talked. However, she had the chances to ask the doctor some questions regarding her own health problems. These Salar women also receive the hygiene materials and living subsidy. The woman with black scarf is Salar, and the other woman is the president of women’s federation in the township government.
These two old women are the oldest ones in this training; they said their daughter-in-laws are not able to come, so they came instead of them. But their ears are not very good, and the project manager asked the doctor to speak loudly so that they can hear her.
When it came to some sensitive topic like sexual diseases or the ways of preventing pregnancy, the participants started to laugh and become shy. Some people even said that in the 21st century people can say anything they want openly. So the doctor told them again and again that there is nothing to be shy of.
In the picture, the project manager Lumo tsering is distributing the hygiene materials as the co-manager Lumo (the woman in the right with blue cap) calls the names one by one.
These women are from Wuma Village and this training in held in the afternoon. All the women, doctor and project managers gathered in a family and held the training. These women sitting in the front are listening to the doctor with great interest, however some women in the back are pretty worried about the family chores they have and are chatting about their work constantly.
This woman is also from Wuma Village, she is signing her fingerprints on the paper before she receives the hygiene materials.
Project summary
Project title: Health Training Project for Tibetan Village Women in Rdo Sbis Township
Project goals: This project is to host three-day health training in Rdo Sbis Township 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 to improve the health conditions of local women.
Project location: Rdo Sbis Tibetan Autonomous Township, located in southwest Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province, is one of five Tibetan Townships in Xunhua County. The others are: Bis mdo (Wendu), Rkang tsha (Gangcha ), KA ring(Galeng), and Se chang (Xichang). There are 27 villages in Rdo Sbis Township, including two Salar, one Hui, and one Han village. Nearly all Rdo Sbis residents are Tibetans.
Total beneficiaries: This women’s health training directly benefits approximately 160 people and will indirectly befit around 800 women in Rdo Sbis Township, as women who attended the training could pass what they have learnt at the health training to their mothers, daughters, sisters and friends.
Implementing organization/individual: Lumo Tsering (project manager), Sangmo (President Women’s federation), Zhoujia (Rdo Sbis Township Leader), Lumo Tsering (co-project manager) and Shem Women’s Group.
Contact Group: Shem Women’s Group
Funding source, amount, and date received: Lumo Tsering (Project manager) received 5,400 (80% of the project money) RMB from Shem Women’s Group on March 25th, 2010, and will receive 1,350 RMB after the project manager implements the project successfully.
Details of project activities
1. Found out the health problems by talking to Dr.Suonamtso from the hospital in 2008.
2. Developed project by attending an international training on education for sustainable development in Sweden.
3. Discussed the project with the County leader about where and for whom to hold the training.
4. Conducted informal interviews with some women (from?) about the health problems they have.
5. Contacted one of the health workers who used to work on health issues in the village to find out about common illnesses.
6. Contacted Dr. Woxiuji, who gave training to the village women.
7. Figured out the price of materials for the training.
8. Wrioe project proposal.
9. Funds are received on March 25th 2010.
10. March 26th, 2010, contacted County leader and the president of women’s federation to discuss the start date of the project.
11. Prepared announcement of the health training.
12. March 27th, 2010 went to the wholesale market to check the price and quality of the materials.
13. March 28th, 2010 went to Yiwu Market in Xining City to check the price and quality of the hygiene materials needed for the training and bought some of the materials.
14. March 29th 2010, went to the wholesale market to purchase some other materials and co-project manager Duojie Dorlma went to Yiwu Market to purchase hygiene materials again.
15. March 29th 2010, transported some of the materials to Xunwa Village in Xunhua County.
16. March 30th 2010, lunch time went to the wholesale market to buy rest of the materials again and transported them to project manager’s office.
17. April 2nd, 2010, transported the hygiene materials to project manager’s family.
18. April 3rd, 2010, hired a car and went to the Township government to hold the first day of the health training in Rdo Sbis Township governmental yard.
19. Interviewed some of the participants to see the impact of the project.
20. April 4th, 2010, went to Niamu Village to hold second health training for the Niamu Village women.
21. April 4th, went to Bai Zhuang Township to buy more hygiene materials.
22. April 4th, 2010, in the afternoon went to Wuman Village to hold third health training with Wuman Village women
23. Interviewed some of the village women and took pictures.
24. Write project final report.
Project Finance
| Receipts | Item | Donor Contri bution inrmb |
Local Contri bution inrmb |
Total cost inrmb | Donor Contri bution in rmb |
Local Contri bution inrmb |
Actual Cost in rmb |
Differences in rmb |
| #1 | Training Fee | 600 | 0 | 600 | 500 | 0 | 500 | +100 |
| #2 | #Transportation | 900 | 0 | 900 | 1200 | 0 | 1200 | -300 |
| Materials | 500 | 0 | 500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +500 | |
| Training Hall | 0 | 600 | 600 | 0 | 600 | 600 | 0 | |
| Receipt #3 | Hygiene Materials: soap, napkin, basins, toothpaste and tooth brush |
3000 | 0 | 3000 | 3188.5 | 0 | 3188.5 | -188.5 |
| Receipt #4 | Meals（both doctors and villagers） | 500 | 1500 | 2000 | 1000 | 1500 | 2500 | -500 |
| Receipt #5 | Deserts | 750 | 0 | 750 | 450 | 0 | 450 | +300 |
| Photos | 200 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +200 | |
| Appreciation | 100 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +100 | |
| Receipt #6 | Management Expenses | 200 | 0 | 200 | 460 | 0 | 460 | -260 |
| Management payment | 0 | 500 | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 | ||
| Total | 6,750 | 2,100 | 9,350 | 6798.5 | 2,100 | 9398.5 | -48. |
Note: For some costs, the project manager was not able to get receipts, because the shopkeepers in the township are not able to write. So some receipts are not formal receipts. Also because the training happened on weekends, the project manager decided to not have group photo and give photos to each participant, because in that way she needed to go to Xunhua again to distribute photos. Also the participants are very worried about their works when having the training, so project manager decided not to waste their time any more by taking photos. Therefore, there is no cost for photos.
Also, because of having no experience, project manager didn’t know it is better to provide participants some money since most of them don’t have money to eat lunch, so project manager decided to give each participant 5 RMB, so the meal fee is higher than the original budget.
The total donor contribution of this project is 6798.5 RMB and project manager paid the rest of the 48.5 RMB.
Delays, Difficulties, and Lessons learned
Delays
The starting date for the project was delayed for half a month, because when the project manger received the funds, the villagers in Rdo Sbis Township were cultivating their fields and it usually takes about 15 days for the whole township to finish the work. Considering it is their busiest time, project manager decided to wait until the villages finished cultivation. In that way, selected women can come to the training without needing to worry about their work.
Difficulties
In order to start the training earlier on Saturday morning, the project manager went to Xunhua County on Friday night after she finished her work, and it is about 4 hours from Xining City to the project manager’s home. So when the project manager arrived in the County town it was too late and there were no taxis, and project manager had to hire a very expensive car..
On Saturday morning, the project manager and the project co-manager went to the township to prepare the project before the training, like buying fruits, drinks and other needed things. However, the county leader didn’t show up until 11 am, which is one hour later than we scheduled, although the project manager contacted him very earlier to tell him to be on time, so the project managers and participants had to wait for long time to start the training.
Also originally, the project manager planed to have a female doctor who is very experienced with health training to facilitate this health training. However, because of their institute the doctor needed to go to Beijing and was not able to go to the training. The doctor helped the project manager to find another female doctor. Since it is her first time to facilitate training, she is not as active as the project manager expected. However, she did a great job with making the training plans and all important topics were presented at the training.
Additionally, in Rdos Township, there are two Salar (an ethnic group in China) villages and the county leader also announced the training to them. So there were five Salar women attending the training, however, they don’t understand Tibetan and hardly understand Mandarin. So there was a very big communication problem between the doctor and the Salar women. We had to speak Tibetan to all the participants, and ask the Salar women to ask questions after the training.
Changes
There were three small changes with this project. Firstly, according to the original plan, Doctor Woxiuji was going to facilitate this health training. However, she had to go to Beijing suddenly, and was not able to go to Xunhua for the training. So Doctor Woxiuji helped the project manager to find another doctor.
Originally, the project manager planed to have three days training in Rdo Sbis: first day in the township, second day in Niaba Village, and last day in Helongbu Village. In the actual project implementation, the County leader suggested that it is better to have two days training, because most of the villagers are busy with building walls and if project manager held the training for one village each day, then it would take lots of work time away from the villagers. So the project manager decided to have two days training instead of three days. So they held first training in the township for whole day, second training in Niamu Village for half a day and third training in Wuman Village for half a day.
The villages that the project manager originally planned to hold training in also changed, because when project manager was talking to many people regarding where could be the best place to hold the health training is, villagers said that most of the projects go to the villages that we originally planed because those villages are located beside the road. So for this training, the project manager decided to go to villages which are very remote and very poor, and Niamu and Wuman Villages are the poorest and most remote villages in Rdo Sbis Township. Although the road to these villages is not very good, this project would help these villages more than others.
Lesson learned
During the implementing of this health training project, one thing which the project manger learnt was that it is very important to meet the project target group personally, in that way it will be very clear about what they need and how one can help. Also by meeting with the target group, one can avoid misunderstanding, because the project manager and target group can always explain to each other and make sure they understand each other. The project manager went to the project location when she first designed the project and she communicated with the county leader clearly why this training is needed and how the government can help. However, she was not able to go home when the project was funded. So she contacted the county leader through phone and that is not good way of communicating, since the phone is sometimes unreliable. The project manager thinks that maybe that’s one reason why the leader was late for the training.
The project manager learnt from one of the officials that sometimes it is better not to contact the big leader directly, because they have lots of things to do and sometimes they would forget or will have no energy to focus on one thing. So he suggested project manager to contact the woman who is in charge of the women’s federation, in that way she can fully focus on the training and can help the project manger fully without being disturbed by other things.
Participants Name list
Rdo Sbis Township participants name list
Niamu Village participants name list
Wuman Village Participants Name List
Interviews
Dorlma Tso
Dorlma Tso is from Wuman Village, and is one of the participants of this heath training. Among all the women participants, she is the most active. After the training the project manager interviewed this woman for five minutes. The project manager mostly asked whether they had such training before and what does she think about women’s health condition in Wuman Village. She said that since Wuman Village is a very remote village in Rdo Sbis, they hardly receive attention from government. These kinds of training go to villages that are near the road. Also because they are very far from the township, when there is training in the government, women can’t go, because they need to walk, which takes them about 2 or 3 hours. She also stated that since their village is very remote, women don’t go to the hospital when they are sick, because it takes lots of time away from their work. If they feel really sick, then they will just take a short sleep. So it is very important for them to get basic knowledge about women’s health to prevent them from getting sick. The project manager asked this woman the ways of preventing pregnancy and she easily answered the questions. She said if we can do something then that’s good, but they can’t ask their husband to do anything. So the project manager had the idea that maybe they can organize health training for men next time.
Ayi NanmaJyi
Ayi Nanma Jyi is 81 years old. She said she has being living in this village for her whole life and has never had a chance to listen to such training. She said since they never had the chance to hear knowledge about women’s health, they don’t know whether what she knows is correct or not. This time she heard from the doctor that their way of cleaning after they went to the toilet is wrong. They did that for their whole lives, and didn’t know it is wrong until today. She laughed and said she can tell her daughter to do the right way from today. She also asked the project manager that if in the future they can still organize these kinds of training, she will ask her daughter-in-law to come since she couldn’t come this time. She said that women are doing all the works at home and never have time to take a rest, so if a women in the family gets sick then all the family members’ lives will be affected. So she said women need more doctors to teach them the health knowledge.
Tsomo
Tsomo married into this village a long time ago, and she said few people want to marry into villages like Wuman Village, because it is very remote. She said they even can’t get vegetables most of the time, let alone health education. She said “women never know how to take care their health, what they know work, work and work. Even though I didn’t catch any serious sickness, the small illnesses always bother me. I always have backache, and my lower abdomen is very painful during the menstruation period. What I do is just bear it, but today the doctor said all these small sickness create big problems. So I should more aware of my own health, if something happened to me, then what would my children do.” Tsomo answered with a very sweet smile. Then the project manger asked whether she knows how to prevent oneself from being pregnant. She didn’t answer these questions but became very red. So project manger didn’t ask her any more.
Letter of appreciation from the Government
The translation of thank you letter
Thank you letter
Dear Shem Women’s Group,
On April 3rd and 4th in 2010, Township Party committee, Township government, County women’s federation and your organization organized health training in Township Government, Wuman and Niamu Villages. The family planning advocator from 34 villages, the directors of women representatives in the Village, and Township women officials in total of 218 people participated the training. The project manager invited gynecologist Hua Sai Tso from Qinghai Tibetan Hospital to our township and passed on knowledge that is related to our daily life. They also provided some daily needs and living subsidy. This training enhances women’s health care knowledge and it created a strong foundation for women to have a healthy and happy life in the future. Therefore, on behalf of 3,617 women in Rdo Sibs Township Party committee and Township government would like to thank the leader and all members of Shem Women’s Group, especially project manager Lumo Tsering for your great work.
Thank you!
Xunhua County Salar Autonomous County Rdo Sbis Tibetan Township
April, 11th 2009 (Stamp)
The list of Receipts
Receipt # 1
Doctor Training fee 500 RMB
Receipt #2
Transportation fee: 1,200RMB
- Project manager Xining to Xunhua 100 RMB (50 RMB Xining to Xunhua +50 Xunhua to Home)
- Car Rent Fee: 400RMB/day*2days=800 RMB
- Doctor (Xining to Xunhua) 200 RMB: Doctor rented a car from Xining to Xunhua on Saturday morning
- Project manager and Doctor Xunhua to Xining 100 RMB
Receipt #3
Hygiene materials (towels, basins, toothpastes, toothbrushes, plastic gloves and napkin) cost: 917.5+300+480+480+40+150+245+576=3188.5 RMB
Receipt 4
Meal cost: The project manager and Doctor stayed in the project manager’s aunt’s home and ate there, so project manager gave 200 RMB to buy meat and vegetables.
Also considering that most women usually don’t have money in their pockets, the project manager decided to give each participant 5 RMB, so that they can have lunch in the afternoon. Also other women participants received 5 RMB each person, so in total it is 800 RMB. In total it is 1,000RMB.
Receipt 5
Desert fee: Project manger brought fruits, drinks, cookies, one time used cups and other needed materials which cost 150/training*3=450RMB. However, the shop keeper couldn’t provide a receipt, since she doesn’t know how to write and she even didn’t have a receipt book, so the project manager was not able to provide formal receipts for this cost.
Receipts 6
Project Manager Expenses: project manager phone bill 50 RMB + Shopping helper Phone Bill 20 RMB + Taxi fee 110 RMB + Food Fee 160RMB + co-manager transportation fee 20 RMB + project manager transportation fee 100(when she first design the project). In total 460 RMB
Note: For food fee, there are together 10 pieces of receipts and for taxi fee there are together 11 pieces of taxi fee, which the project manager used when she implemented the project. Also some of the taxi receipts are the ones taken from the bus station to the project manager’s office. Since there are lots of receipts for food and taxi there, the project manager only post one to represent them all.
Original Proposal
Brief Introduction of the Facilitator Doctor Woxiu Ji
Woxiu Ji is a Tibetan woman who graduated from Qinghai Tibetan Medical College in 2006 with a major in Tibetan medicine. Currently she is working at the Qinghai Tibetan Medical Research Center. She has being working on women’s health for a long time and has been invited to give a health training in Xunhua County before.
Brief Introduction for Organizer Shem Women’s Group (SWG)
Shem is a women’s group dedicated to empowering Tibetan women and their communities through grassroots development. We focus on increasing the well-being of people in impoverished communities by providing access to basic needs such as water, fuel, electricity, health care, and basic education. We fulfill our mission by training educated Tibetan women to design, implement, and manage sustainable grassroots development projects that will successfully alleviate the problems that their communities face. SWG has so far successfully completed 29 small-scale humanitarian projects in provinces all over the Tibetan plateau.
At the village level, while our projects fulfill basic survival needs for village women and their families, our project managers, educated Tibetan women, present villagers with strong female role models. The work of these young women raises villagers’ confidence in women’s abilities and encourages villagers to value women’s education.
At the university level, we offer discussion groups and workshops designed to empower educated Tibetan women, and we provide women with the resources and training they need to put their ideas into action.
Project location
Rdo Sbis Tibetan Autonomous Township, located in southwest Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province, is one of five Tibetan Townships in Xunhua County. The others are: Bis mdo (Wendu), Rkang tsha (Gangcha ), KA ring(Galeng), and Se chang (Xichang). There are 27 villages in Rdo Sbis Township, including two Salar, one Hui, and one Han village. Nearly all Rdo Sbis residents are Tibetans.
There are around 12,000 people in Rdo Sbis, a township in a valley surrounded by mountains. A road runs through the valley center between these mountains. Villages are located on either side of the road. Some villages are on the mountainsides; their fields are watered only by rain and such villages are called ri ma. Villages at the foot of the mountains and on the valley floor, called chu ma, have fields irrigated by the river.
These villages are agricultural villages. Local people grow barley, wheat, and potatoes on their land, which is irrigated five or six times every year between the fourth and sixth lunar months. Wealthy families owning 8 mu can sell surplus barley and earn about 800 RMB per year, since 1 mu of agricultural land can produce around 700-800 jin(350-400kg) of barley. However, most village families do not have this much land. Usually two or three households share about 8 mu of land between them. Such families can only grow enough barley for their own subsistence.
Villagers earn cash income from livestock; each family usually owns at least one cow. From the cow’s milk, villagers produce butter and cheese which is not eaten but sold to generate income. A family can earn about 600-800 RMB per year selling butter and cheese. Most households can make about 25 to 30 jin of butter and 30 jin of cheese annually. Also, villagers work as migrant laborers. Almost every able adult leaves the village in May and June to dig caterpillar fungus, a medical herb which grows in high altitude areas. In 2007, each caterpillar fungus could be sold for ten to fifteen RMB. During good seasons, each person can earn 2,000-3,000 RMB.
All money earned is spent on children who attend school and family costs such as New Year festivities, fertilizer, electricity, and other essentials. In total, the average family can make approximately 3,700 RMB in cash income per year, and they must spend approximately 3,500 RMB per year. This leaves the average family with 200 RMB in surplus income each year. If the family has students who are going to university then they need to borrow money from others to afford their tuition.
Why we need this training (Problems)
1> General understanding: Health issues are not taught in most of the universities and colleges in Qinghai Province, China, except in the Medical Colleges. As a result, university students and college students have very limited knowledge about health issues.
Also, it is culturally sensitive to talk about health problems related to sex or reproduction. Thus most Tibetan women and girls are shy to talk about those health issues openly even if they know they have some health problems. Even if they want to talk about their health problems, they do not have a safe space for discussing these health issues openly or discussing their problems with other women.
Moreover, there are very few Tibetan books, magazines and newspapers that talk about health problems, especially women’s health problems. So students have little access to general information about health. Those women who received school education have problems accessing health information; women who did not have access to education have even more difficulty accessing health information. Even if the village women had access to some health related books from the government, they still cannot understand them. These problems make it difficult for women to gain knowledge about health issues.
2> Problems identified by doctors and health workers: From talking to a woman gynecologist from the hospital we also know that most women never go to the hospital to check for gynecological diseases unless they are very sick. They wait until they are seriously ill to go to the hospital, and by the time they arrive their sickness has already become very serious.
Also, I talked with a foreign student who had worked on healthcare projects in Tibetan villages. While talking to the villagers, she found diseases like tuberculosis respiratory infections, constipation, vaginal infections and cervical cancer are quite common in the villages. She said, “Women get the illnesses I mentioned because they are unaware of vaginal hygiene and don’t regularly wash/clean the vaginal area. Also, never using toilet paper and the fact that their husbands don’t wash their genital area probably plays a role as well. I think villagers tend to not bother about sickness until it’s very serious, because of the cost of healthcare and the distance and difficulty of travel to a health clinic. I think it’s likely that women, even more than others, don’t pay so much attention to their health – they keep waking up early and working hard all day long even when they are not feeling well, and their illness must get very serious before they try to seek health care. I was also told during my interviews that sometimes women are reluctant to ask their husbands for money to seek healthcare, and sometimes husbands don’t care much about their wives’ health and don’t give them money to see a doctor when they are ill.” She said all this happens because village women know very little about their own health and hygiene.
3> What we learned from implementing a health training: Shem Women’s Group held our first health training in Xining with college students. Our hope was that these young women could go home and share what they learned from the training with their sisters and mothers. While holding the training, the doctor asked lots of questions related to women’s health and very few students, even adults, could answer the questions. The students from medical school also had difficulties with answering the questions. So from the training, we could see that women’s knowledge toward their own health is very limited.
4> What we learned from students: This year in 2009, Shem selected its 2009 members and in total we received 37 application forms and among them 20 students mentioned that the reason they want to take our development class is to learn how to write proposals, so that they could help the women in their villages who suffer from health problems. Those students are from different areas of the Tibetan plateau and more than half of the students mentioned something about health problem in their village. From these applications we can see that health is a big concern in many Tibetan areas.
5> Example of my own experience: My mother used to be farmer and worked in the field for most of her life. Because she lacked basic health knowledge, she often drank un-boiled water, especially when she was doing the harvest and was too exhausted to boil the water. Later, every time after she ate cold food (no matter what food) her lower abdomen started to protrude and feel very painful. Also, she said it was very difficult for her when she went to the toilet. Our family has been taking my mother to the hospital to see the doctor many times. She is diagnosed with a type of gyneopathy that is very serious. Even now, she must be very careful with what foods she eats and must eat a lot of medicine to control the illness.
Solution
We will provide a space for village women to discuss health issues and share each other’s knowledge about health openly. We will also invite Doctor Woxiu Ji from Tibetan Medical Hospital to give a training on health issue for those village women and teach the importance of caring for health problems. In addition, we will give each participant an assignment: to pass what they have learned from the doctor or from other participants to their daughters and other women who are not able to attend the training.
Project Goals
The overarching goal of the project is to provide health education in order to prevent diseases and improve the health conditions of local villagers, especially women.
The immediate goal of the project is to host a three-day health training in Rdo Sbis Township and another two villages 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.
Beneficiaries
Around 200 village women will directly benefit from the Health Training and these women will be asked to pass on what they have learned to other women they know, so many other women will also benefit indirectly through the 200 participants.
Government approval
On May 5th, 2009, I went to the township government office and by talking to the county leader Zhou Jya, I realized that the government also offered health trainings before, both in the government meeting hall and in individual villages. Their training was mostly about birth control. So the county leader said this is such a nice thing to do and said the government could provide necessary support, like providing a meeting hall for the training, and also make announcements about the training time. I am very happy that they could provide such support, because with government’s help, villagers will be more cooperative.
Gender equality
The project will be implemented and managed by a young Tibetan woman, and this health training will be offered for women. So this training will benefit about 200 women directly and other women will also benefit indirectly since those women who participated in the training could share their new knowledge with them. Also I, the project manager, as a young woman, will manage the project and serve as a role model for women in the village. Hopefully, this will work to change village women’s attitudes toward sending their daughters to school and will encourage the village women to rethink their ideas that boys are always successful than girls.
Brief concept of training
1. Basic knowledge about women’s common health problem like tuberculosis respiratory infections, constipation, vaginal infections and cervical cancer.
2. The importance of caring about and for women’s health problems.
3. The methods of preventing gynecological disease.
The Steps of Project
1. Found out the health problems by talking to Dr.Suonamtso from the hospital in 2008. (Done)
2. Developed project by attending an international training on education for sustainable development in Sweden. (Done)
3. Discussed the project with the county leader about where and for whom to hold the training. (Done)
4. Conducted informal interviews with some women about the health problems they have. (Done)
5. Contacted one of the health workers who used to being working on health in village to find out about common illness. (Done)
6. Contacted Dr. Woxiuji who will be giving training to the village women.( Done)
7. Figured out the price of materials for the training (Done)
8. Write project proposal. (Done)
9. Funds are received.
10. Meet the county leader and women leaders to discuss the start date of the project.
11. Prepare announcement of the health training.
12. Purchase the materials for the training in Xining.
13. Hold the training.
14. Take pictures and interview the village women about the impact of the project.
15. Send final report to donor.
Detailed Schedule:
This project will be held for five hours each day during three days in winter time
First Saturday, invite two women from each village to attend the training in Rdo Sbis Township government meeting hall. Introduce the common health problems and the importance of caring about women’s health problems in the morning. Use the afternoon to share methods for treating common women’s health problems.
The second Saturday, hold training in Helong Be village with the women in that village. Use two and half hours in the morning and another two and half hours in the afternoon to talk about the health problems and care methods.
The third Saturday, Hold the training in Ning ba Village, and use five hours to talk about the health problems and preventitive methods.
Note: The government leader told me that there are two women in each village who are in charge of women’s affairs and women’s health, so if we invite these women to the training, then they will most likely pass what they learned from the training to other women. The government is providing a small salary to these women in the village, so they have the duty and responsibility to attend every meeting and training announced by the government.
Also we are holding two individual trainings in two villages. Firstly, these villages have a meeting hall that we could use for training and, secondly these two villages are somewhat bigger than other village. Therefore, if we hold a training in these two villages, then more women will get benefits from the training.
In addition, this training will be held in the winter time, because it is the time during which women can have more to rest, and could attend the training without worrying about their housework and other duties. Women are always busy during other seasons, because they need to work in the fields and sometime they even need to leave the village to earn cash for their family.
Detailed Budget
| tem | Price per item in RMB |
Number of items |
Donor Contribuion | Local Contribu ion |
Shem Contribu tion |
Total cost in RMB |
| Training Fee | 200 | 3 | 600 | 0 | 0 | 600 |
| #Transportation | 150/ person for 2 people |
3 | 900 | 0 | 0 | 900 |
| Materials | 500 | 0 | 0 | 500 | ||
| Training Hall | 200 | 3 | 0 | 600 | 0 | 600 |
| Hygiene Materials: napkin, soap , basins, toothpaste and tooth brush | 3000 | 0 | 0 | 3000 | ||
| Meals（both doctors and villagers） | 500 | 1500 | 0 | 2000 | ||
| Deserts | 250 | 3 | 750 | 0 | 0 | 750 |
| Photos | 200 | 0 | 0 | 200 | ||
| Appreciation | 100 | 0 | 0 | 100 | ||
| Management Expenses | 200 | 0 | 0 | 200 | ||
| Management payment | 0 | 500 | 500 | |||
| Total | 6,750 | 2,100 | 500 | 9,350 |
Donation requested from the donor in Chinese Yuan: 6,750rmb
Note: transportation fee is for the project manager and the doctor to go to the project location from Xining. The health training will be held on three different days, so we need to go from Xining to the project location three times.
Photos of the project
The project manager Lumo Tsering talkS to the Township leader about the heath training in his office.
She will be one of the participants of health training in Rdo Sbis Township, because she is one of two women in each village who are in charge of women’s affairs and women’s health, so she will be invited to attend the training.
Map of project Location
