Reports

Barrier Wall Project for Yatong Village
Project Manager: Tashi Hlamo (Charlene)

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To build a barrier wall 350m long, 1.5m high, 0.8wide and 0.5 on top for the 200 people of Yatong Village, blocking the floodwaters from the river, and protecting the village’ houses and monastery. As a result, living conditions and children’s school attendance will be improved.

Funds needed: $6,794 (43,136 rmb)

The German Embassy funded this project

Thaxi Hlamo(Charlene) is from Waluo village, Jialaxi Township, Narong County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. She is recently working towards an Associated degree in English at the Qinghai Normal University Nationalities Department English Training Program.

What? To build a barrier wall (307m long, 1.5m high, 1m wide and 0.8m on top) for Yatong village and Aga monastery.

Who? Yatong village and Aga monastery, located in Jialaxi Township, Narong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province (China)

Photos of project implementation

Here the truck driver transports stones from Gelu, located two kilometers from the village. The cost of transportation to the village is 15RMB.

As seen above, before building the wall there was nothing to protect the villagers’ houses and firewood from floods.

The first thing workers and local people started doing was to dig the foundation of the barrier wall. They dig about 0.8 meters above the water level.

There were about 35 people, both workers and local people, who collaborated on building the barrier wall each day.

The monk seen above on the picture, Qingli jiangcuo, is the second leader of Aga monastery and the manager of this project He is responsible for the supervision and completion of the project.

Above is shown the place were the cement is stored. 700 bags of cement were bought from Zhiyang，which took two days to get to the village.

Tsering is the first leader of Aga monastery and one of the project managers. He always begs food from the villages in Jialaxi Township to help the oracle-healers on the village. On the picture he can be seen helping to load the 700 bags of cement on the truck.

Here is a part of the barrier wall already built.

As the foundation was built, we discovered that the terrain where we dig on was rotten stone and sand, so it was not stable enough to build a barrier wall on it. Thus, mixed cement, sand and gravel was put in place.

Two trucks of gravel were brought from Honglong xi to help stable the foundation.

Here the mixed cement, sand and gravel are already set up to make the foundation stable.

Here working on building the foundation of the barrier wall. Sometimes it is necessary to use dynamite to dig in.

Sometimes the conditions of the terrain made it difficult for workers to excavate.

The barrier wall starts here, leaving the river into the left side.

This is a part of the barrier wall, one third of the construction already built.

This is another view of a part of the barrier wall already constructed.

Here the barrier wall is already more than ten meters long.

Workers setting the base of cement and sand.

Once the barrier wall was finished, monks of the Aga monastery spend a whole day helping to remove the stones from the river with the purpose of expanding the riverside.

Here the monks had already finished removing the stones from the riverside.

Project Summary

Project title: Barrier wall for Yatong village

Project goals: to build a barrier wall 350m long, 1.5m high, 0.8wide and 0.5 on top for the 200 people of Yatong Village, blocking the floodwaters from the river, and protecting the village’ houses and monastery. As a result, living conditions and children’s school attendance will be improved.

Location of the project:
This project is located in Aga monastery in Yatong village. Yatong village is in Jialaxi Township, Narong County, and Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Yatong village is 13 km from Narong County town.

Total beneficiaries: 17 households and a monastery of about 200 people will benefit from this project.

Implementation organization/individual: Tashi Hlamo (Charlene), Kenqing Tsering, Qingli Jiangcuo, ERji Hlamo and Shem Women’s Group

Contact group: Shem Women’s group

Funds received: Source, Amount, and Date Received

The German Embassy gave 43,100RMB on March 12th 2007.

Details of project activities

Originally planned project activities

Have a meeting with the three leaders of the project: Tsering, Chos las Rgyl` tso and Erji Hlamo. Together, we will arrange the time and hire some other villagers’ trucks in order to carry the stones, sand and cement.
Hire 2 experienced truck drivers from another village to carry stones, cement and sand. The cement and sand will be purchased from Narong county town, which is 13km from the village. The stone will be purchased near the village.
Hire skilled workers in our Narong county town to start construction work.
Supervise the process of the project.
Complete the project.
Interview local children, men and women and monks for a final report.
Take pictures for a final report.
Write the final report.
Send the final report with all pictures and receipts.

Activities realized in the framework of the project

1.April 21^st 2007: Held a meeting with the village leaders, the villagers and the monks of the monastery in order to discuss when the work would start. Trucks were hired in order to transport the stone, sand and cement.

2. April 25^th: The monastery leader, Kenqian Tsering and the villager Duoqu bought 700 bags of concrete from Zhiyang and they transported it to Xinlong.

3. April 27^th: A truck driver, Alu from Jiari village, was hired to transport the 700 bags of concrete to Yatong village with 17 local people.

4. May 13^th: hired 3 truck drivers from our Jialaxi Township to transport stone to the village.

5. June 2^nd: The 3 truck drivers transported 270 small tractors of stone to the village within 14days.

6. June 3rd and 4^th: 7 trucks of sand were transported from Mofang gou to the village，finishing the sand transportation.

7. June 12^th: The local leaders went to Narong county town to buy the materials of the project.

8. June 17^th: 2 trucks of gravel from Honglongxi, located 15 km from the village, were transported.

9. June 27^th: The contract between the engineer and the leaders of the village and monastery was signed to guarantee the quality of the barrier wall.

10. June 28^th: The local people and the skilled workers diverted the river into one side because it was more convenient for them to dig the foundation of the barrier wall.

11. June 29^th: The local people and the skilled workers started to dig the first part of the foundation of the barrier wall, covering an area of around 140 meters long.

12. June 30^th: The local people and the workers finished digging the first part foundation of the barrier wall which would be around 145 meters.

13. July 1^st: The workers and local people started to build the second part of the foundation of the barrier wall.

14. July 11^th: The local people and the skilled workers finished building the first part of the barrier wall with 145 meters.

15. July 12^th: The local people and the skilled workers started to work on the second part of the barrier wall.

16. July 19^th: The local people and the skilled workers finished building the second part of the barrier wall, which would cover around 97 meters.

17. July 20^th: The local people and the workers started to work on the third part of the barrier wall, which would cover around 65 meters long.

18. July 24^th: At this point the barrier wall was finished.

19. July 25^th: The manager Kanqian Tsering and the committees paid the wages to skilled workers and the engineer (a total amount of 7280RMB)

20. July 26^th: A meeting was held with local people (monks, men, women and children) to discuss the final report of the project.

21. July 27^th: Interviews were held with local people and leaders about the project.

22. August 5^th: The local committees wrote a thank you letter to the German Embassy.

23. July 7^th: All monks replaced stones and removed things from the river for a whole day.

24. September17th: Began writing final report.

Project Finances

Original Budget
Receipt #	Item	Donor Contribution in RMB	Local Contribution in RMB	Total cost in RMB
#1#,2,#3	cement	24,500	910	25,410
#4	sands	2,660	910	3,570
#5,#6	stones	7,200	3,600	10,800
#7	gravel	0	0	0
#11	Skilled workers	8,100	0	8,100
#8	Water buckets	150	0	150
#9	hoes	136	0	136
#9	spades	240	0	240
#9	Digging tool	150	0	150
	Meal fee	0	2,700	2,700
#11	Local workers	0	2,400	2,400
#10	Fire wood cooking	0	195	195
#11	Cook for workers	0	300	300
	Project Management expenses	0	150	150
	Project Management payment	0	500	500
Total		43,136	11,665	54,801

Actual Budget
Receipt #	Donor Contribution In RMB	Local Contribution in RMB	Total cost in RMB	Difference (Between original and actual budgets) in RMB
#1#,2,#3	23100	1500	24600	+810
#4	2100	2100	4200	-630
#5,#6	10800	4050	14850	-4050
#7	0	1600	1600	-1600
#11	7280	0	7280	+820
#8	150	60	210	-60
#9	136	48	184	-48
#9	240	0	204	+36
#9	150	75	225	-75
	0	0	0	+2700
#11	0	7800	7800	-5400
#10	0	120	120	+75
#11	0	520	520	-220
	0	343	[1]343	-193
	0	500	[2]500	0
Total	43956	18716	62,636	[3]-7835

Notes:

[1] Shem women’s group paid this money

[2] Shem women’s group paid this money

[3] 7835 rmb was from local people

Changes made in the original project proposal and budget

•A. Gravel

In the original proposal, we did not plan to buy gravel but when we were digging the foundation of the barrier wall we noticed that the place were the foundation was going to be built, at about 20 meters deep, rotten stones with sand was found, making the place very unstable to build a barrier wall. Therefore, we had to buy two trucks of gravel from Mongfang gou, located at 13 kilometers from the village. We placed mixed gravel with sand and cement under the foundation of the barrier wall before we started building it so it became stronger and stable to lift the barrier wall on it.

•B. Transportation of sand and cement

In the original proposal, we planned that the transportation of each truck of sand would be 130RMB but the cost of transportation went up. The cost of moving each truck of sand was 300RMB. The cost of cement transportation was the same as the sand, because both were transported from the same place in Mofang gou (our Narong county town), which is 13 meters from the village.

C. Workers’ wage and the price of stone

We originally planned the worker’s wage to be 15RMB per day and each skilled worker’s wage to 27RMB per day, but the workers’ wage went up and we paid each skilled worker an average of 35RMB per day. Each worker was paid 30RMB per day. Also we estimated a 20RMB for each truck but the price of stone went up and each truck of stones ended up costing 40RMB.

D. Length of Barrier wall

Our original plan for the barrier wall was calculated to be 350m long, 1.5m high, 0.8m wide and 0.5m on top, in order to prevent flooding, but we ended up building a barrier wall with 307meters long, 1.5m high, 1 m wide and 0.8m on top.

The length of the barrier wall is 43meters shorter than planed because we calculated that one meter of a barrier wall would need two bags of cement and about a truck of stones and one truck of sand for a barrier wall with 50meters. Actually, the first part of the foundation of the barrier wall was made of small rotten stones with sand and it was not stable enough to build a barrier wall on it. To make the foundation solid each meter of the barrier wall needed about 6 bags of cement and two and half trucks of sand. Also, it was already mention that the price of the stones went up. Due to all these factors, the materials were enough for us to build a barrier wall with 307 meters long. We also collected about 7700RMB, which was more than we original planed (this is shown in the detailed budget). The width of the barrier wall is 0.3 wider than originally planned.

Delays, difficulties, and lesson learned

Delay
On March 2007, the project was funded by the German Embassy but it was delayed for about two and half months because at that time all the villagers were very busy plowing their fields. After the villagers finished plowing, the season for picking caterpillar fungus started and the villagers went on digging for caterpillar fungus as quickly as they could. Caterpillar fungus is one of the main sources of income for the village. In addition, at that time the project manager was in the school and having classes. It would take a long time to do the project and the project manager would miss a lot of classes if she left for the implement the project. Therefore the project was delayed.

Problem encountered in the course of the project implementation
Actually we successfully completed the project, but the most difficult thing we encountered during implementation of the project was about those factors mentioned earlier, which affected the planned budget, getting short of money in some areas. After buying the materials for the barrier wall, no money was left for the workers. It was really difficult to ask the villagers to collect money. However, the villagers were willing to pay money for the project because they know how important the project is for them and the community.

Lessons learned
Once the project is over, I learned that some people in the village had changed their negative stereotypes towards women and most people had already started to change it. Because before doing the project nobody had asked me to write proposals for them even though they needed help. They thought that I was a girl and I was not able to do something important like men could do. However, after I did this project many other villagers came to me and ask me to help them organize projects such as running water and solar panel. So I realized that this project had helped to change some people’s negative stereotypes towards women and had learnt to respect them.
Another thing I learned when writing the budget was the importance of forecasting into the budget any price variation on the materials that were planed to be bought. I learnt that budget is very important for people who write project proposals and we should very be careful when we are making budgets.

Interviews

1) Qingli jiangcuo On July 27th, Tashi Lhamo went to Yatong village and interviewed the second leader of the monastery, Qingli Jiangcuo who is 36 years old. There are three people in his family, his old father, mother and himself. He told me that one night last summer it rained so heavily that the river rose very high, causing damages due to the flood. Unfortunately, at that time there were only old people in the village as the young people were digging caterpillar fungus. Qingli put all the old people into one safe house and he stayed up for the whole night, looking over the people and their belongings. However, from now “I do not need to worry about the floodwater anymore and our villagers have happy and safe lives under the companionate German Embassy’s help”. From the bottom of his heart he says thanks to the German Embassy.

2) Erji hlamo
On July 27^th, Tashi lhamo went to Erji Hlamo’s house and interviewed her. Erji Hlamo is 31 years old and lives with four members of her family: her father, husband and two children. She told me her house is located very near the river so the floods damaged her house twice and they had to repair it. Every year it is really difficult for them to rebuild the house. Now that a barrier wall was built thanks to the German Embassy she will not need to rebuild her house anymore. She says she can save the money to send her kids to school. She is very thankful to the German Embassy.

3) Tsomo

On July 27^th, Tashi Lhamo also interviewed Tsomo, a 23 year-old woman. She said that with the barrier wall, she does not need to worry about the flood and rebuild her house anymore. She also said that she will never forget the German Embassy’s kindness and she said thanks many times during the interview

4) Drodrung

On July 27^th, Tashi Lhamo interviewed a man named Drodrung who is 24 years old. There are three people in his family, his wife and one-year-old baby. He said that when he married his wife they had no parental support, so they had no place to go and that is why they came to Yatong, where they live in poor conditions in a small, ramshackle house. The monastery leader told them they couldn’t live there during the summer because the flood would damage all their belongings. However, now that the barrier wall is built under the help of the German Embassy his family can live in the village for many years and he is really happy about it. He wished the best to the German Embassy.

5) Qenqing Hlasto

On July 27th, I interviewed Renqing Hlasto, she is 72 years old and she was a healer-oracle. She has no any children and she lives alone in her house. She told me the floodwater can cause many disasters, bringing down our houses and belongings. A few years ago one of her friends was drowned. Sometimes she could not keep her tears rolling down from her eyes when she was telling me the problems. Whenever the summer rainfall comes they worry a lot about the floodwater. Now that the stable barrier wall is built, it can protect the villagers and their belongings from the floodwater. They do not need to worry about the flood. She thanks a lot the German Embassy.

Letter of appreciation

Translation of thank you letter

Immeasurable appreciation toward your kindness

Dear German Embassy staff members:

Our Yatong village (Aga monastery) is in Jialaxi, Narong County, Ganzi prefecture, Sichuan province. We used to worry about the disaster which was brought by the river floods during summer. We really felt unsafe to live in our homeland for many years. Fortunately, by your foundation’s generosity, kindness and helpfulness, we got saved since this barrier wall project started. From Tashi Lhamo we received 43,136 RMB to save our and many other people’s lives and to make us feel safer and more comfortable to live in our villages.

We feel that the money was spent reasonably and usefully. We made and bought every single material with its receipt. Because of your help our villagers don’t need to repair their houses any more with their limited income, instead they can use the money to buy daily needs and to send children to school. In this way, our children will get more chances and possibilities to attend school to bring up their own and local community’s future. Also, the monks will not need to fix their houses any more since this project stopped the floods that used to damage them.

Both our villagers and monks appreciate your infinite help. We can say nothing else but “Thank you very much.” Your support for this project has helped to improve the life of 17 households and a monastery of about 200 people.

From all of us, we send the best wishes for your following days and future work. Hopefully, this collaborative work can be a precedent for future cooperation with Tibetan communities.

Receipts

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Original Proposal

Project Location
The project is located in Aga monastery in Yatong village. Yatong village is in Jialaxi Township, Narong County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Yatong village is 13 km from Narong County town.

Project Background
Aga monastery is in Yatong village in the south of Jialaxi Township, near Jialaxi River. Aga monastery, though small in size with 107 monks, has a deep and long history. Built more than three hundred years ago, it houses many ancient artifacts. There are seventeen households surrounding the monastery. These 17 households together make up Yatong village. Aga monastery is the most ancient monastery in Narong County.

Yatong is actually classified as neither an agricultural village nor a nomadic village. Therefore, most households own no land and have no livestock. The village has 4 single men and 2 healer-oracles. In addition, there are 8 households, which were moved near the monastery from nomadic areas. In 1998, there was a heavy snow lasting seven days. Thus, most of these households’ livestock died from starvation. There are also three young couples who, since they married without parental support, had no place to go and so came to Yatong to eek out a living in poor conditions in small, ramshackle houses.

Population
There are approximately 70 people in the village. There are 31 men, 25 women and 14 children. In addition, in the monastery, there are 107 full monks and 21 young monk-acolytes. The monks are from different villages in Jialaxi Township. The youngest monk is 12 years old and the oldest monk is 76 years old. The majority of the monks are 30-45 years old.

Education
In terms of monastery residents, there are 107 monks in the monastery. Almost all of these monks have no formal schooling. Only 18 of the 107 monks attended school before they entered the monastery. 89 of the monks have never received any non-monastic education. .

As for the non-monastic Yatong village residents, there are 9 school-aged children, but none of them are going to school because their parents cannot afford their tuition fees and the nearest school is 5 kilometers away. It would be very hard for them to go to school and return home on foot every day.

Cash Income
Most of the monks in the monastery make barely enough money to support themselves. The cost of clothes, medicine, and electricity per person per year is about 650 RMB. Fortunately, they do not need to pay for fuel or water. They fetch water from Jialaxi River, near the monastery. The average monk is able to make about 650 RMB per year.

The monks of Aga earn their living in three ways. First, they earn up to 60 RMB by begging every month in the surrounding villages. Second, when there is an opportunity, they can earn about 10 RMB and 1 kilogram of noodles per day for chanting in people’s houses. Third, monks who are over 50 years of age must depend on their families.

The government provides tea leaves and salt to 6 unmarried villagers who are without children. The government gives each healer-oracle or single person 350 RMB per year for their tealeaves and salt. However, this is not enough for their annual needs. Fortunately, the leader of the monastery helps them beg for tsamba, butter and flour from surrounding villages in Jialaxi Township. The leader of the monastery gives each healer -oracle or single person about 30kg of tsamba, 10kg of flour and 2kg of cheese every month. The Villagers go out and work to earn money. Men and women both go to construction sites to carry baskets of earth on their backs. Through this work, each woman can earn 20 RMB per day and each man can earn 25 RMB per day. Some women rent other people’s fields so as to be able to plant crops, giving back half the barley they grow to the property owners as rent. The average cash income is approximately 1,400 RMB per person per year, which the villagers use to maintain their houses and to buy clothes, food and other supplies. This amount is not enough since each family actually needs about 3,500 RMB for adequate necessities every year . Since they have no land and no livestock, their lives depend only on this meager cash income.

Agriculture
The monks themselves don’t have any fields. Their families are in one of the several villages of Jialaxi Township. These families support the monks by giving food, clothes and building houses for them. A rich family has about 8 mu of land with which they can earn 3,000 RMB per year. And a poor family has about 3 to 4 mu with which they can earn about 1,000 RMB per year.

Herding
Some of the villagers raise livestock. The families located nearby the monastery each own, on average, 4 cows, 1 bull and 2 female yaks. From the cows and female yaks they have enough butter and cheese for themselves, but they have no extra butter or cheese to sell. Monk’s families similarly have about seven animals per family on average, while the monks themselves have no livestock at all.

Weather
Four seasons a year is normal, but summer and autumn come with almost daily rainfall in Yatong village. Thus, in summer and autumn, Jialaxi River floods over every year. The flooding is a disaster for the monastery and village. Floodwaters rush through the residents’ houses, causing damage and destruction. In fact, a healer-oracle named Dengzi Dorlma drowned in the flooding of 2002. In the winter, the weather is very cold but the villagers are able to obtain wood to make fire.

Project Goals and Benefits

The overall goal of the project is to improve the safety and living standards of the villagers and monks. The immediate goal of this project is to build a barrier wall, 350m long, 1.5m high, 0.8m wide and 0.5m on top, in order to prevent flooding.

Problems
Flooding
Every summer, Jialaxi River rises and it turns a brownish color. The flood damages all the monks’ belongings, including some scriptures, books, clothing, statues, and even their houses. Flood waters damages villagers’ clothing, food and other belongings. The floodwaters can also take lives. For example, as mentioned above, on the night of July 4 th 2002 the flood took the life of Dengzi Dorlma and destroyed her house. The floodwaters rise one second and recede the next. Therefore, the villagers are unable to determine how to protect themselves from flooding before the floodwaters arrive. Sometimes the water level swells at daytime, and sometimes it swells at nighttime when people are sleeping.

High Stress
Because of the frequency of flooding all the villagers and the monks tend to worry a lot and are unable to sleep at night in summer. Especially on rainy days they know that the flood might come. So some people don’t sleep all night long to watch the flood and to prepare to run away. Also as the flood has destroyed the villagers’ families and destroyed or damaged all their property, their lives are extremely difficult. So the residents of this area are under a lot of stress.

Economic problems
P arents in Yatong village have no money to send their children to school, as the flood periodically destroys all their things. Thus, both parents and children have to go out and look for jobs to earn the money to survive. Though the parents get some money from work they have to use it to reconstruct flood-damaged houses and basic necessities. Therefore at this time the village’s parents have put the education of their children out of their minds as an impossible goal. In addition, it is difficult for them to get enough food as they have nothing left after the floods. Each family has been spending more than 2000 RMB per year rebuilding their houses.

Health
Because of every year the flood comes and the villagers are not able to completely rebuild their houses, in winter they live in extremely poor conditions. So often the villagers are very cold and the children are likely to get serious illnesses. However, when this happens, of course, they have no money to buy medicine and see doctors.

Benefits

If a barrier wall is built, 200 people will benefit from the project. Because the dam can block floodwaters from the river, it can protect the village and the monastery from the floods. Therefore the people will be safe and the floods will not destroy their houses and belongings. Their conditions will improve and they needn’t spend their money rebuilding their houses each year. In addition, with a barrier wall, people will no longer die from the flood.

As p arents will not need to spend their money rebuilding their houses, they will be able to use that money to send their children to school. Therefore the village’s children will be able to attend school and will have the chance to improve their future opportunities.

The money the villagers will save from not needing to rebuild their houses, about 2000 RMB per year, can also be used to buy daily necessities such as food and clothes.

With houses that are not continuously damaged and in need of repairs or rebuilding, the village children will be less likely to get cold and sick. In addition, money saved due to the building of a barrier wall can be spent on medicine.

Beneficiaries
200 people will directly benefit from this project

Gender equality
I am the first woman from my hometown taking charge of an endeavor of import to the village. People have been surprised that I am taking on this endeavor, especially the men in my hometown. Since women have a low position in the culture of my home area, most people believe women are unable to do such things. So, if this project is successful, there will be the added advantage that the villagers will get rid of their idea that women are only good for housework. Also, the female members of my hometown will be encouraged by my example.

Governmental support
On March 9th 2006, Tsering (the leader of the monastery) and Chos las Rgyl `tsho (the second leader of the monastery) met with Songga Lima, our county leader, to discuss this project. Songga Lima decided to give us the permission to do the project.

Sustainability
This project is very sustainable, because all the villagers and monks will benefit from this project for the long-term. T he monks and the villagers will be responsible for the sustainability of this project. They will pay for maintenance of the barrier wall after the project is completed. In addition, the leader of the monastery Kanqian Tsering already contacted Boss Li who is from Narong county town. Boss Li is a good constructor and he has a lot of experience with architecture. He was responsible for the completion of Dengguang Square in our county town in August 2006. Boss Li promised Tsering to bring his skilled workers to Aga monastery (Yatong village) to establish a firm dam. We will sign a contract with them so that after the dam is completed, we managers will oversee it and if we think it is not well built, we can ask them rebuild it at no extra cost. They live in our county town and will be required to do as we ask.

The steps of the project

Hold a meeting to discuss urgent needs and gather information for project proposal (already completed)

Meet with Kan Qian Tsering who is the leader of the monastery to discuss detailed plans for a dam. (Already completed)

Meet with the villagers and the monks and let them choose three work committee leaders (already completed):

One is the leader of the monastery, Qian Tsering.

One is the second leader of the monastery Chos las Rgyl `tsho

One is a woman who has more education and experience than other women in the village, Erji Hlamo.

Write project proposal. (Already completed)

Have a meeting with the three leaders of the project Tsering, Chos las Rgyl` tso and Erji Hlamo. Together, we will arrange the time and hire some other villagers’ tractors in order to carry the stones, sand and cement.

Hire 2 experienced tractor drivers who are from another village to carry stones, cement and sand. The cement and sand will be purchased from Narong county town. It is 13km from the village. The stone will be purchased near the village.

Hire skilled workers in our Narong county town to start construction work.

Supervise the process of the project.

Complete the project.

Interview local children, men and women and monks for a final report.

Take pictures for a final report.

Write the final report.

Send the final report with all pictures and receipts.

Timeframe
Time line: From the time that the proposal is approved, this project will take approximately 36 days.
1 day: Hold a village meeting.
8 days: Transport stones from nearby village.

5 days: Purchase sand and cement to transport from county town.
1 day: Purchase small materials and transport from our county town.
20 days: Build the barrier wall.
1 day: Hold a second village meeting to clarify responsibilities of dam committee and announce completion of project.

Detailed Budget

Item	Price per item RMB	Number of items	Donor Contribution RMB
Cement	35rmb/ per bag(1bag=50kilograms)	700 bags	24,500
Sand	380rmb/ per truck	7 trucks	2,660
Stone	20rmb/ per tractor	360	7,200
Skilled workers	27rmb/per day/per person	20 days15 people	8,100
Water buckets	5rmb/per bucket	30 buckets	150
Hoes	17rmb/per hoe	8 hoes	136
Spade	20rmb/per spade	12 spades	240
Digging tool	30rmb/per digging tool	5 digging tools	150

Total Cost for Donor			43,136

Local Contribution

Item	Price per item RMB	Number of items	Local Contribution RMB
Cement Transportation fee	130rmb/per truck	7 trucks	910
Transportation fee for stone	10 rmb/per tractor	360 tractors	3,600
Transportation fee for sand	130 rmb/per truck	7 trucks	910
Workers	15 rmb/per day/per worker	20 days8 people	2,400
Cooking for workers	15rmb/per person	20 people	300
Food for workers	3 meals per day3 rmb/per meal/per person	20 days15 people	2,700
Firewood for cooking	65 rmb/per tractor	3 tractors	195
Management fee			500
Management expenses	Photocopy, develop the photos, and phone call		150
Total Contribution			11,665

Photos

Villagers to rebuild their houses and prevent floodwaters from reaching their homes use the logs in the picture.

Jialaxi River and the households located beside the river.

A neighboring village

This is a healer-oracle’s home, close to the river. She is named Tsechen Zhouma

This is a diagram of the barrier wall that we plan to build