Reports

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

Kleisath’s Family donated clothing for this project

Project Manager: HlamoTso (Gina), Waku village, from Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua County, Qinghai Province. And she is working an Associate degree in English Training Program, Nationality Department of Qinghai Normal University.

Project Location: Waku Village, Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province, China.

What: To distribute Second-Hand clothing in order to improve the living condition of the poorest families in Waku village.

Brief Description of Implementation:

This project implemented during the May 7th to May 8th 2007. Many of the young people in Waku village go out for work, most people dig caterpillar fungus and few people work for construction works and earn family income. Some families locked their door and went out to work. So the project manager gave some of the clothes to their relatives according their family member, and let the relatives give the clothes to them when they return to home and sign finger prints for them. Also some children are at the school at that time so I didn’t get the all the receipts’ and pictures. For the students, their parents helped them and signed finger prints. Almost nineteen people got benefit direct from the project. The books in the box, in my home area almost no one can read these English books so I put them in Shem Office.

Photos of the beneficiaries:

Her name is Xiaji. She is sixty years old. She is a single as well as a handicapped woman. This is her house and she lives with her only son and her son can’t go far place to earn money. Sometimes she needs to do housework when he went out for some village work. She walks on her knees and do some housework such as clean the furniture and feed pig.

Liguo is fifty-six years old and she couldn’t do any heavy tasks because she got backache. They have three children and all sent to school so her husband can’t go out for work a lot. The couples endure hardships to earn some money for school payments by herding other families’ livestock and also by weeding other families’ fields.

Aomujay is forty-one years old and she needs to do everything in her family. Her husband is sick and can’t do any physical works except herding livestock. Their house is quite small and one corner of the house was collapsed last year. So their family moves to another place, which is very near from the Waku village, and start to build a new house. She has two children, a fifteen years old son and an eighteen years old daughter. Both of her children are attending school, but this year is the difficult year for the family because her family starts to build another house so sometimes she keeps her daughter at home for the whole weeks as her helper. Aomujay really needed the help from her daughter for building another house, but she also really worried about her daughter’s study. Now she is in a difficulty situation.

Tashi is forty-nine years old and is a housemaster in the family. His eighty-seven years old father is sick in the bed. He has two daughters and the younger one attended school, but this year his younger daughter stopped school and both of his daughters go out and dig caterpillar fungus (a medical herb). So the sweater in his hand is for his daughter. He is taking care for his sick father at home by doing housework.

Lhakuo is the woman who holds the child on the left. She is thirty-two years old and she never attends school. She has three daughters. The girl she held is her youngest daughter and named Tserangji. She is four years old, and the little girl in the front is Tserangji’s old sister. Her name is Limao Drolma; she is seven years old and starting school. Lhakuo needs to do almost everything in the family, because she gave birth to three daughters but not a son. So she hasn’t any positions or power in the family. The woman in the middle is Limao. She is a widow and needs to take care of everything in the family. Her two daughters are attending school. Do the housework and care the livestock without any helper is quite difficult for her. Also she sent the two daughters to school. On the left is a nun called Gaysong Tsomo. She is thirty-eight years old and newly became a nun. She got married for three times but all were UN-succeed marriage as she got arthritis. Her only son is also dead sudden and then she became a nun. They all come from different families.

Kaygay Bum is forty years old, and head of the family. He has three children, two daughters and a son. He sent all the children to school and always run out for work to raise family. His wife got immunizations several years ago. After that she is isn’t healthy enough, and very easy to get tired, easy to get cold so she couldn’t do any heavy tasks. He needs to do the most things for the family. He took those clothes for his two daughters, because they are at Township school during May 8th.

Zhuolo a is thirty-seven years old woman and her job is to take care of three children, these two children, also she carries another baby on her back and taking care for her eighty-nine years old sister in-law. There are eleven people in her family and none got any paid jobs, and only one student in her family. Zhuolo is carrying heavy tasks to feed the family, so she is very busy at the most of the time.

This son is taking cared by this woman named ZhaxiDeva. He is one and half years old now. His parents went out to work and earn in come. So his parents ask for this woman to raise him until they come back. They newly married and just start a family so they are in hard situation in this year.

List of recipients:

Thank you Letter

Translated Thanks Letter

Dear Kleisath’s Family

My name is HlamoTso, and my English name is Gina. I am from Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua County, Haidong Region and Qinghai Province. I am currently a student and completing an associate degree in English and Tibetan from English Training Program, Qinghai Normal University, China.

I had received two boxes of second-hand clothes through Shem Women’s Group that you sent from your family and I have successfully distributed those clothes to around twenty poor families in Waku village. Comparing with other families in Waku village, the families I chose were in a greater need of help. Giving clothes was one of the most kind way to help their difficult life. So we gratefully say thank you very much to you. The families who got help from your family are very happy. And meaning while, we all wish everything is going well with all of your family members.

Sincerely

From: Waku Village

May 22nd, 2007

Tashi Delek!