Reports

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

Kleisath’s Family donated clothing for this project

Project Manager
Sonam Doomtso(Vicky) is from Gang village, Duilong county, Lhasa city, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. She is currently working on getting an associated degree in The English Training- Program, Nationality department of Qinghai normal university

What? Second-Hand clothing distribution to Gang village

Who: Impoverished villagers of Gang number1 Village, Gang number 2 Village, Neqong village of Tibet.

Brief Description of Implementation
This project was implemented from August 9th to August 10th, 2007. This project is to give to the clothes to the poor family and poor communities in your local area, so that it can help little on their life conditions and save their money for the clothes. Many of the parents and adult people went out to harvest and only some children and old people in the house. Some of the people went to do the construction work in different areas and they could only come back during very late in the afternoon. That time the children were having holiday, so they are responsible to take care of their family house. The clothes I have received were mostly for the adult, but there were also T-shirt and other smaller clothes for the children, so I gave the smaller clothes to the children and bigger clothes for the adult. There are also some very warm clothes, I did give those clothes to the older people, because I think old people’s body is weaker than the younger and they can getting warmer from these clothes, for this point, I did give the warmer clothes to the older people and the rest of the clothes were given to the adult. In average, each person got three clothes. Because of this, I didn’t get enough pictures of the adult. I went to their house during night when they finish their daily work and asked fingerprint from them. Almost 24 people got benefit direct from the project.

Photos of Project Implementation

Gang number 1 village

Her name is Yangzhuo. She is 35 years old, and has a daughter who is a middle school student. Her family members are farmers and they have only 14 mu (equivalent to 2.33 acres) of land. In some seasons, because the weather, they can only get just enough wheat and barley for their subsistence, so they don’t have anything left to generate an income. They only got few acres of land, so they can’t produce many products from the farm; because of this, the family condition is not very good. Besides, they have to send their daughter to school which makes it even more difficult to the family.

Gang number 2 Village

Her name is Barmalamo and she is14 years old. She has never attended school because her family is too poor. She is not able to read a single letter form the book. Her family sent her away to work at the age of 9. Now she works in a cloth shop, where she can get 200RMB per month. In her family there are six more children, some are already married and some are staying at home. None of the other children have a job, so the family subsistence depends on their small land and her little salary. Her father got a problem in his leg and it is not recommended for him to do any work. Most of her family income comes from her and her mother.

Neqong village

This little girl is Lazhuo and she is 13 years old and her family members are also farmers. She has no mother and she has two older sisters and two younger brothers. Her mother died when she gave birth to the last child, so the father alone takes care of all the children. One of her sisters is married and the others are at home. She has never been to school. Because of her poor condition, she started working when she was 10 and now she works as a nanny, taking care of a child in a rich family. Her father has to take care of all the children and that is a hard task for him. Also, they don’t have a lot of land and it makes their life more difficult.

Interviews of beneficiaries

Gang number1

Meiduolazen is 56 years old. Her husband died when she was 30. After her husband’s death, the entire family had to depend on her alone. She is also responsible for taking care of her father and mother. She has to take care of the small land and her children. She wanted to send her children to school, so tried very hard to earn some money. She had sent her daughter and son to school for 3 years, but after that there was no way for her to find money to support all her children. She felt really bad about it, and she thought that whenever there would be a chance for her to get money she would certainly send her children to school. Now her older daughter got married to a boy whose family is a little rich and they get little help from them each year, but it is for sure not sufficient. Her one true wish is to send her children to school.

Gang number 2 villages

Mimayangzong is 31 years old. She is a farmer and she has 4 children. One is married and the rest are at home. Her family has 15 mu (equivalent to 2.5 acres) for agriculture, which is not really enough for the whole family. Her husband has some problems with his leg and she can only do a little work for the family. This makes the family condition even more difficult. She is sending one of the children to school and they are having difficult time with her tuition.

Garzang is 42 years old. He is a farmer and he has 3 children, one is in Xian University and the others are at home and helping the family. They only got few land, so they can’t cultivate lot of products. Their son has to pay a lot for the school, and that is very difficult for the family.

Zhomaji is a 26 years old woman, and has got two children. After the second child, her husband left her and she doesn’t know where to find him. Her children are still very young and she has to spend most of her time taking care of her children, thus she hasn’t much time to find a job. Sometimes she would leave her children at her parent’s home to go and earn some money, but her parents are very old and they can’t take care of the children. Since she has never been to school it is even harder for her to get a good job.

Neqong village

Tashidawa is 33 years old and has been married for 5 years. He works as a farmer but has not enough land for subsistence. His parents died when he was very young and left him no land. He has no sisters or brothers. Later with villagers help, he got married and had 2 children. He’s never been to school and so hasn’t his wife, so it is very hard for both them to earn money.

Bema is a 40 years old woman and has got 5 children. Her family got only 7 mu (1.16 acres) of land, which is not enough for her whole family. She is sending two of her children to primary school, but she and her husband have difficulties to pay the cost of tuition. One of the children is married and the rest still depend on the little land they have.

List of recipients
Finger print of Gang number one, two and Neqong villag

List of names

Thank you letter

Translation of the thank you letter

Today we (Gang village) received clothes from student Doomtso of Shem group. Those clothes are very helpful for to the poor families in my village, they have really benefited from these clothes and we feel really thanks for doing that. We would never forget your kindness and loving heart. We hope you can also help us in the near future.

2007.8.10

From Gang village