Project Manager: Gatubdrolma (Lillian)
To provide a well-protected religious center for the area, and repair and protect the Temple and water powered prayers as cultural heritage.
The Royal Netherlands Embassy Funded this project
Gadouzhuoma (Lillian) -is from Hezuo City, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and Gansu Province, China. Currently, studying in English Training Program, Qinghai Normal University for her associate degree, majoring in Tibetan and English.
What?
Repair the 18 water powered wheel prayers.
Repair the walls of the Temple
Repair the external walls that surrounding the Temple.
Who? Lurixi Village, Mari Township, Zhuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province.
Photos of project implementation
A repaired wall of Temple.
A repaired external wall.
Repaired stairs to the Temple, which is not included in project proposal and budget, but the villagers volunteered for the work.
A repaired external wall.
A repaired prayer wheel.
Many other repaired prayer wheels.
Project summary
Project title: Cultural Preservation Project in Lurixi Tibetan Community
Project goals: To provide a well-protected religious center for the area, and repair and protect the Temple and water powered prayers as cultural heritage.
Location of project: This project is located Zhuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous prefecture, Gansu Province, PR, China. The village is about 90km away from Hezuo, the capital of Gannan Prefecture.
Total beneficiaries: In total about 309 people will benefit from this project.
Implementation organization/individual: Gatubdrolma(Lillian), Lurixi Village committee with 6 people and Shem Women’s Group.
Contact Group: Shem Women’s Group
Funds received: Source, Amount, and Date Received
The project manager Gatubdrolma(Lillian) received 13,800RMB donation from Royal Netherland Embassy in July, 2007.
Details of project activities
Originally planned project activities:
Project Activities:
Step 1. Get ideas from local people and gather information of their condition and project by holding some meetings. The project manager has chosen 6 people, including two community female members to form a local project committee to be responsible for the sustainability.
Step 2. Asked experts and experienced workers about the workers payment, design and potential risks.
Step 3. Went to the local market to get basic ideas about the price of different items and materials.
Step 4. Took pictures of site and the parts where the project is supposed to take place. Interview some of people who will benefit from the project.
Step 5. Make budget and write applications.
The above 5 steps are done already.
If the project is funded
Step 6. Implementation of the project.
1) Contact and decide a reliable company about the materials and sign contract for its guarantee of quality.
2) Ask the local project committee and villagers to buy materials and deliver it to the project site. Meanwhile, ask villagers to be ready for upcoming work and responsibilities.
3) Make a detailed and organized working schedule for the whole project to make sure the project is finished on time.
4) Implementation
There are three main activities in this project:
Repair the collapsing three sides of the temple walls by building them back up with bricks.
Repair the outside walls of the temple, which are falling apart.
Repair the water powered prayer wheels with new bricks, planks and tiles.
Step 7. Take pictures and make a plaque acknowledging the donor.
Step 8. Interview some of the beneficiaries and gather some information to measure the effectiveness of the project on people’s lives. How it changed people’s living conditions and their attitudes and understandings.
Step 9. Write a detailed project final report including thank you letters, photos, interviews, project activities and report of the benefits of the project.
Step 10. Submit the final report with photos and receipts.
Activities realized in the framework of the project:
1. The project manager had a meeting with local villager representatives and discussed about problems and solutions.
2. In May 2006, the project manager designed the project.
3. The project manager did research on the project and materials needed for the project in local market.
4. In May 2006, the project manager took pictures and interviewed local villagers.
5. From May to December of 2006, the project manager was writing project proposal and did the budget with help from Shem Tibetan Women’s Group
6. In July, 2007, the project manager received 13,800RMB from the Royal Netherland Embassy.
7. The project started in July, 2007 right after the money being transferred to the Village committees, and it lasted mid August, 2007. The project manager was not in the field at the time, but the project needed to start right away, and needed to purchase materials such as cement, and planks in order to start with. So the project manager discussed this issue with the project committees, and decided to send 1/5 of the money to buy things, and get started before it is too late, before the harvesting season. There will be less people who can contribute time working on the project if the harvesting season started.
8. The project manager took pictures and did interviews in mid- August 2007 in Lurixi Village and started working on the final report.
9. The project manager finished the final report on October 10, 2007.
Project Finances
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Original budget |
Actual budget |
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Receipt # |
Item |
Donor Contri |
Local |
Donor |
Local Contri |
Total |
Differ |
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1 |
Tiles |
1,584 |
0 |
1,584 |
0 |
1,584 |
0 |
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1 |
Planks |
900 |
0 |
900 |
0 |
900 |
0 |
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3 |
Bricks |
475.2 |
0 |
5,226.8 |
0 |
5,227 |
+0.2 |
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4,752 |
0 |
0 |
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2 |
Ceme |
720 |
0 |
1,404 |
0 |
1,400 |
+4 |
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360 |
0 |
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324 |
0 |
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5 |
Sand |
2,750 |
0 |
4,400 |
0 |
4,400 |
0 |
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1,650 |
0 |
0 |
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4 |
Pay |
2,000 |
0 |
3,800 |
325 |
4,125 |
-325 |
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1,800 |
0 |
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Pay |
0 |
400 |
0 |
400 |
400 |
0 |
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0 |
1,000 |
0 |
1,00 |
1,00 |
0 |
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Adminis |
0 |
800 |
0 |
800 |
800 |
0 |
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Manage |
0 |
500 |
0 |
500 |
500 |
0 |
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Manage |
0 |
450 |
0 |
450 |
450 |
0 |
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Total |
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17,31 |
3,150 |
17,31 |
3,4 |
20,7 |
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A translation of the names in EnglishLurixi Village Household Namelist:
1.Zhoujiekar 2. Sangguo 3. A lou 4. Sambo 5. Daogao 6. Yem Tashi 7. Peba Xiu 8. Dangtso 9. Zhoujia Xiu 10. Mina 11. Daitso 12. Tuotso 13. Daojee Dongzhib 14. Loushi 15. Tserang 16. Nimaotso 17. Lamao Xiu 18. Tashi Tsedan 19. Lamao TashiChangguo Village Household Namelist:1. Renqin 2. Zhouxiu 3. Niangyang 4. Angjel 5. A bu 6. Keshun 7. Fengyin 8. Qinshun 9. Ma Tserang 10. Zengyin 11. Tserang 12. Fuseng 13. Luosang 14. Baoshen 15. Baoxiang 16. Wenzong 17. Yim Tserang 18. Senglin 19. Renqin 20. Wenchen 21. Bedma 22. Guodi 23. Heyin 24. Lamao 25. Wendi 26. Zixiang 27. Liujiadi 28. Gayin 29. Paba 30. Linxiang
Delays, Difficulties, and lessons learned
Delays
We delayed the date of final report for about a month. There are several reasons to contribute to the fact: 1) the project manager was busy with her study, and did the final report once, but turned out to be badly damaged for some reasons, being corrupted by some technical problems. 2) The project did not get to start until the villagers actually got the money, and it was until mid-July that the villagers got the money from the manager. The project manager did not give all the money together to the village committees, but gave them according to the process of implementation, such as distributing money for cement, and all those materials first. The project manager held back some money until she was on the filed from August; she was able to supervise the project implementation and financial expenses as well. It is always important to build a strong relationship with village committees, since sometimes the project manager is unable to be on the field, the trust-worthy village committee has to shoulder some responsibilities as well. Since the project is addressing needs of village, and village committees were chosen from people with good reputation and some other criteria, they are in most cases are responsible.
Difficulties
1. Transportation of materials had been a problem because of the road construction in the village. The government was building a road to Lurixi Village, and they damaged the original road, and bridge, made tractors unable to move through to the village to transport the cement and sands.
2. Project manager was not able to be in the field all through the implementation. The project manager Lillian Gatubdrolma was working in Xining city in Qinghai province, which is about 450km away from the project site, and she couldn’t go back and be on the field all the time. This may affect the implementation of the project and likely no one would be in charge of that, may have greater chances for the project to fail, but the village committees were responsible and highly engaged with the work, which made the project successful.
3. Lack of labor to help with the construction. Many adults’ men were out doing paid work, since they serve a major work force in the original proposal; the project has been somehow affected. However the village committee was able to get more volunteers, elder, children and women all participated in the project implementation.
4. The change of the implementing process. Before in the original proposal, the project manager included 5 experts paying according to the amount of the work they do, but the actual situation turns out to be that the experts insisted on paying daily, and we found it is more expensive this way. However, the project manager and village committee had no other choice at the moment, so reduced the number of the experts, and so the project spent 320.8RMB extra money more than it is budgeted.
Lessons learned
1. If the project is not going to be funded in a short time, and it’s taking longer period to be funded, the project manager should always update the budget with the actual local market price, and labor price. So this way, this will reduce the loss of villagers, when the cost is beyond their local contribution.
2. It is better to have a good trust worthy village project committee both formed by different gender. Those people should be selected as prestigious, hardworking and responsible, so they can help the project manager for the implementation since they got those understanding of local situation, and may be able to order the villagers to work, and convince them more easily if there is a problem. Also they can be on the behalf of the project manager to observe the project, and supervise work of workers.
3. Resourcefulness is very important. When the road does not allow tractor and vans to go through and transportation problem became a major difficulty for the project, then we depended on local resource such as mules, donkeys and yaks to transport the cement, etc. And we asked local villagers to help us load and unload sacks of sands, etc.
4. The project manager, when she is doing the final report, it is better to keep many copies of that, so when a file is damaged, she can still use other saved files. This way, effort of work will not be lost because of those uncertain factors.
Interviews
Caidan Norbu (b. 1970) is one of young adult who goes out to earn money each year in Lurixi Village. He said he grew up in this village, and his children were sent to school to receive education which he never had the chance to do so. He remembered all those people from nearby village came together, and discussed about the issues in the villages, solve deputies or pray for good fortune in this holy Temple. His mother is a strong believer, who prays everyday, and who does turning the prayers everyday. He insisted his mother not going to pray near the Temple since the bricks are falling off, and he was worried she will get injured. Now he can just let her go, and let her spend whole day there praying with those other elders.
Danzhitso (b. 1935) is the grandmother of project manager who is living in this village, who also spent her entire life in this village, and experienced how things changed in the past, how everything is so different from what it used to be. She said at old times, all the villager gathered together perform dancing and singing at New Year near the holy Temple, and now every family got TV, they do not come out, and they forgot their culture. Young people do not pray and chant, they thought it is a waste of time, but elders still do, they turn the prayers, and chant, and circumambulate the prayers and temple to wish all the beings good luck, and all the best. Her son does not want her to go over near the prayers and temple cause those old construction are falling apart, and was not in a good shape. Culture and religious center has been forgotten by all new generations, but elders still insisted on their beliefs. They are now much happier that people start to consider the importance of religion and culture they have.
Zhaxi Caidan (b. 1950) is one of the residents in Lurixi village, who happened to experience two different lives. The life with stronger beliefs, and now less devoted to religion and culture. There is no course offered in primary school in Lurixi village, and nearby schools as well. Children get to learn Chinese, which they are not native for that, but required. Children have no means to learn culture beside through their elder generations and those cultural heritages. He said it is very important to preserve those spots and construction for future generations for them to remember who they are, and not forgetting the history, religion and culture.
Letter of appreciation
Scanned letter in Tibetan
Translation
Dear Royal Netherland Embassy:
Thanks very much for your help with this cultural preservation project. It has been a great fortune of us to receive help from you. Lurixi village is not very remote, but yet the government is too busy to pay its attention to us in last years. But this year, they started to build a road in the village, because they wanted to explore the tourism, and cultural aspect of the village, to attract more tourists. In the past, the village remained as poor, and had many problems with food, water, livestock and children’s education. There is no end to the problems, but we still feel the importance sof our culture and beliefs. Elder people have strong sense of keeping the tradition and wanted to circumambulate the Temple and prayers everyday. We had no money for the repairing work, but we wanted to do something. Thanks for making our wish became true, and with the ever turning prayers, we wish all the best luck to all the members in your organization.
Thanks again!! Tashi Delek!!!
Lurixi village
Receipts
We were unable to get official receipts, because if we demand for official receipts, those businessmen will charge higher price for us, which is beyond our budget. Also those skilled workers are not from government or any company, they are from local area and they can’t provide an official receipts as well.
Receipt 1: 1,584 tiles, 1RMB/ per tile. The subtotal is 1,584RMB.
50Planks, 18RMB/ per piece, the subtotal is 900RMB.
Total: 2,484RMB.
Receipt 2: Cement 4 tons, 350RMB/ per ton, total: 1,400RMB.
Receipt 3: Bricks 9,860 pieces, 0.53RMB/ per piece, total: 5,227RMB.
Receipt 4: Payment 25 days, 55RMB/ per day, 3 skilled experts. Total: 4,125RMB.
Receipt 5: Sand, total: 4,400RMB.
Original Proposal
Project Location
Lurixi Tibetan Community, Mari Township, Zhuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, PR. China. This village is about 90km away from the Hezuo City, the major city of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province.
Population
1. This project will benefit two villages, Lurixi and Changguo.
The population in Lurixi Village is 129 people. 47 men, 56 women and 26 children (under 17)
The population in Changguo Village is 180 people. 64 men, 78 women and 38 children (under 17)
The total population that would benefit from this project is 309 people . Among them, 30% of the people are over 50, 26% are under 17 and the remaining 34% are between 17 to 50 years old. 55% of the total population is women.
2. This project may also benefit 5 adjacent villages with more than 1,400 people and at least 300 pilgrims a year.
Education
Throughout the history of the village only one person has ever received an official job. 90% of the adults can’t read or write. There are about 34 school-aged children in this village, but only 80% of them attend school from primary to high school. The remaining 20% of the children stay at home. Although the government announced a policy of free tuition, schools in rural areas still collect money from the children, which make it difficult for some families to send them to school. Also, some families need children to help with herding or to do some housework. Finally, the primary school is far away from the village, about 15km, while the middle school is in the county town, about 45km away.
Cash income
The average person in this village makes 150 RMB per year by selling extra farming products (beans) and a limited number of livestock (sheep, yaks, butter and wool) .
Taxes
There have been no taxes since last year. In the past, people used grain and some money to pay for their livestock and farmland. An average family needed to pay 200-300 jin of grain and around 100 RMB.
Agriculture
The total number of farmland one family owns depends on the number of family members recorded when the village divided the land many decades ago. In the two villages, the biggest family might have 12 mu of farmland while the smallest might have about 4 mu. They grow wheat, rapeseeds and beans, with the highest yield of wheat being about 500 jin.
Herding
Not all the families in this village own livestock. Those that do own livestock have anywhere between 5 and 45 sheep. Only 9 families own more than 12 sheep and there is one family that owns 21 yaks. The average family has about 7 sheep and 1 yak.
Weather
There is no clear change between spring and winter. Cold weather lingers for about 5 months, requiring people to wear heavy clothing. Since the farmland is all in the mountains, they depend heavily on rain. In 2006 the land suffered from a severe drought, which greatly affected farming output. One year the rapeseed crop dried out and in 2006 some of the land only generated 200 jin of grain per mu. This forces people to spend money on food that would otherwise be provided by farming.
Project Goals
The overarching goal of the project is to establish a well protected religious center and preserve cultural heritage
The immediate goal of the project is to r epair village temple and water powered prayer wheels
Problems
The Cultural and religious center of lurixi is in danger of disappearing. This cultural center consists of one main Temple, with more than 600 years of history, and 18 water-powered prayer wheels above the sacred stream. It has traditionally been the center for 7 Tibetan villages from the adjacent areas – with a population of more than 1700 people. People gather here many times a year to carry out religious rituals and discuss important events. People also gather here to pray for good harvests, happiness and peace.
Lack of money to repair the collapsing walls of the main temple. Before 1949, monks from Zhuoni Tibetan Buddhist Monastery had been in charge of taking care of this Temple and the water-powered prayer wheels. There was a big forest used only to cover the expenses of repairing the temple and water-powered prayer wheels. However, this tradition did not continue after 1949 and the people have had to solve the problems themselves. Although the Temple was rebuilt in 1996 from a limited source of money collected from local people, its walls were made of dirt and after ten years of wind and rain damage, cracks are beginning to show. The Buddha statues and old Tangkas are also in danger of being exposed to the elements and the building’s dilapidated condition makes it dangerous for use by elders and pilgrims.
The exterior walls around the Temple are in terrible condition. They were made out of dirt and are falling down so that livestock can easily run into the temple and trample the things inside the walls, such as the Sang Platform where people burn offerings during auspicious days.
All 18 of the water-powered prayer wheels, built on the sacred stream, are in urgent need of repair. They were built decades ago and it has been a long-time tradition for elders and pilgrims to come and circumambulate them. Now, however, they are almost falling apart. The wind, rain and birds have damaged the religious scriptures inside the prayer wheels.
Solutions
Repair the collapsing three sides of temple walls with bricks. This will prevent elders and people who are circumambulating the Temple from getting injured and prevent the Buddha statues and scriptures inside from getting damaged by wind and rain.
Repair the outside walls of the temple, which are falling apart.
Repair the Water Powered Prayer Wheels, using new bricks, planks and tiles. Reduce the damage by rain and wind to the scriptures inside.
Through the three main activities above, villagers can expect to see the water-powered prayer wheels turning all year round. Also, people will continue to benefit from the existence of the Temple and the water-powered prayer wheels.
Benefits
a. About 1,700 people from 7 villages will have a place to carry on religious rituals and continue their customs. It would also provide a space to gather everyone together to solve problems and pray.
b. Elders can circumambulate the Temple and Water Powered Prayer Wheels without worrying about getting injured by the collapsing walls of the Temple.
c. It will preserve this cultural spot for next generations so all the traditional customs and rituals may carry on.
Interviews
Zhaxitso (b. 1956) is an ordinary Tibetan woman from Lurixi Village. “Young people are always busy making money and farming, but we should be repairing the Temple or the outside walls. If you circumambulate, you can see the scriptures exposed to the sun and rain. We need money to fix it, but since the forest is forbidden for us to cut down to generate money we have difficulties funding such a project. We do not have a way to make money, but we cannot leave those water-powered prayer wheels falling apart.”
Zhijica (b. 1954) was born in this village and has lived in this village for his life time. He voluntered to help me to do the budget and tell me the story of this village. Later he said he can not imagine oneday, younger generations in this village no longer believe in their clture and they do not know their roots and identity. He said once people from outside came to this village very often, and now the number is decreasing, even during important religious rituals. He said this temple and water-powered prayer wheels are so significant to people here and it is part of their life!
Dingzizhaxi (b. 1949) is an important person in this village since he had been the village leader for many years. He is one of the people who asked me if I could help this village looking for funds to repair ruined walls and prayer wheels. If the temple and prayer wheels can remain unchanged and in a good condition, people will constantly come to this village as a cultural center and it could bring all the people from this area together as we used to be. Not only that we elders can circumambulate the temple and prayer wheels at leisure time. Young people can keep this tradition for longer time and our culture and customs will never die.
Gender equality
This project will help empower local women by enlisting their participation in project implementation. Because the project manager is a local woman, it will also raise awareness among locals of women’s capabilities as community leaders.
Women will participate in all level of project implementation, collecting local contributions, and providing unskilled labor alongside local men during construction.
This project will give the project manager practical and real training on doing research in local area, observing living conditions and organizing local villagers such that project implementation is successful. It is such a large project that its implementation will hopefully cause local people to think about females in a different way, maybe reducing some of their old prejudices against females.
Governmental support
The project manager met with the township leader, Libum, and he agreed that the project would be wonderful for the community and offered his support.
The steps of the project
Step 1. Got ideas from local people and gathered information on their conditions and needs through community meetings. Chose 6 people, including two local women, to form a local project committee responsible for sustainability.
Step 2. Collected information from experts and experienced workers about the workers salaries, project design and potential risks .
Step 3. Went to the local market to visit several businesses and ask about the prices of different items and materials.
Step 4. Took pictures of site and the places where the project is planned to take place, interviewed some of people who will benefit from the project.
Step 5. Wrote budget and project proposal.
The above 5 steps are completed already.
If the project is funded
Step 6. Implementation of the project.
1) Choose a reliable company from which to purchase construction materials and sign a contract which guarantees quality.
2) Buy materials with the local project committee and villagers and deliver them to the project site. Prepare villagers for upcoming work and responsibilities.
3) Make a detailed and organized working schedule for the whole project to make sure it is finished on time.
4) Begin Construction:
There are three main activities in this project:
Repair the collapsing three sides of the temple walls by building them back up with bricks.
Repair the outside walls of the temple, which are falling apart.
Repair the water powered prayer wheels with new bricks, planks and tiles.
Step 7. Take pictures and make a plaque acknowledging the donor’s contribution.
Step 8. Interview some of the beneficiaries and gather some information to measure the effectiveness of the project on people’s lives. How it changed people’s living conditions and their attitudes and understandings.
Step 9. Write a detailed project final report including thank you letters, photos, interviews, project activities and report of the benefits of the project.
Step 10. Submit the final report with photos and receipts.
Timeframe
This project will be completed within two months at the most.
| Amount of Time | Activities | Implement | Potential Challenges or Risks |
| 5 days | Pile bricks around the prayers wheels | 5 skilled workers | No |
| 5 days | Change the wood planks around the Prayer Wheels | 5 skilled workers (same people as above) | No |
| 5 days | Put tiles upon 18 water powered prayer wheels | 5 skilled workers (same people as above) | No |
| 15 days | Repair the Temple walls, build the walls with bricks | 3 skilled workers | No |
| 15 days | Repair the temple exterior walls | 5 local villagers and 3 experienced workers | No |
Budget
Donor Contribution
| Item | Details | Requested Contribution from the Donor |
| Bricks | 1 square meter=120bricks40 square meter= 4800bricks= 1 side of the wall3sides*4,800bricks*0.33rmb/per brick | 4,752 |
| Cement | 2 tons*360rmb per ton | 720 |
| Sands | 50cubes*55rmb per cube | 2,750 |
| Payment | 120square meters *20rmb per square meter | 2,000 |
| Sands: | 30 cubes*55rmb=1,650rmb | 2,010 |
| Cement: | 1 ton*360rmb | |
| Payment: | 600rmb (3experts*10days*20rmb/ per day)Local villagers: 400rmb(5people*10days*8rmb/per day) | |
| Cement | 18 prayers*18rmb per sack | 324 |
| Planks | 18*50rmb per prayer | 900 |
| Bricks | 18prayers*80bricks per prayer*0.33rmb per brick | 475.2 |
| Tiles | 18 prayers*88tiles per prayer*1rmb per tile | 1,584 |
| Payment | 18 prayers*100rmb per prayer | 1,800 |
| 17,315.2rmb |
Local Contribution
| Item | Details | Local Contribution |
| Payment | 120square meters *20rmb per square meter | 400 |
| Payment: | 600rmb (3experts*10days*20rmb/ per day)Local villagers: 400rmb(5people*10days*8rmb/per day) | 1,000 |
| Administrative fee | Including transportation, hotel cost for people who are buying the materials. | 800 |
| Management fee | 500 | |
| Management expenses | Phone call fee, photos and transportation fee, etc. | 450 |
| Total | 3,150mb |
Total project cost
| Donor contribution | Local contribution | Total Cost in RMB |
| 17,315.2RMB | 3,1 50RMB | 20,465.2RMB |
Sustainability
The earlier ideas of this project came from local people about two years ago, when village elders mentioned that they really need such a project to be supported. From February of 2006, I started gathering information and photographs that might help inform the donors. In May of 2006, I visited local markets to find out reliable prices for the materials that must be purchased. I asked different skilled workers about the money that would have to be paid, asked the villagers what has to be done to complete this project, what are the local contributions and local involvement that could be promised. I asked what are the potential risks and the predictable project influences and effects and how important this project will be to the people who will benefit from it. Combining all the suggestions and information, this proposal was developed based upon actual local people’s needs and requests. I speak on behalf of my local villagers.
This is project is sustainable, because it is related to cultural heritage and the local villagers will form a project committee with about 10 capable people (both male and female) to manage its upkeep.
The donors are expected to reserve the right to visit and inspect projects at any time. The village project committee, as well as the local villagers and I will be responsible for maintaining the project after it has been implemented. If there are any unexpected costs or expenses for repairs, the villagers and villager leader agreed to pay for it.
Additional Information
This project must be implemented in summer when it is easy to do construction and the weather is good but also before the busy harvesting period. It is impossible to do this project in the winter since the weather is cold. The project must be completed at one time, not in several installments, so we need a block of two months time when the weather is good and the villagers are available to donate their labor.
Additional information for the manager, Gadouzhuoma (Lillian)
2003-applied 25 solar cookers from Canada Fund 2003 Solar Energy Project managed by Fred.
2004-applied 120 solar cookers from Canada Fund 2004-2005 Solar Energy Project
Worked as a co-manger on Canada Fund 2004-2005 Solar Energy Project with two other students, the project is valued at 420,000RMB
2005- applied 156 solar cookers from the Canada Fund 2005-2006 Solar Energy Project.
Worked as the manager of Canada Fund 2005-2006 Solar Energy Project. The project is valued at 420,000RMB.
2002-2006- I have completed six second-hand clothes projects to six different rural Tibetan communities in Gannan Prefecture of Gansu Province.
Photos
The ruined Temple stairs that people are unable to repair due to their limited annual cash income.
A ruined Water Prayer Wheel that has endured decades of rain and storm. It is falling apart and the written prayers within are almost exposed. The tiles and bricks it is built upon are falling down as well. This project will help to repair the 18 water prayer wheels.
The exterior walls of the Temple in Lurixi Village are falling apart. Using the bushes is the only way for the villagers to avoid the livestock entering and destroying the inner constructions like Sang Platform although it really does not help much. The villagers really hope some donors to help them.
This is the temple rebuilt during 1996 before the forest prohibition, and the villagers provided most of wood needed for this construction and now it is impossible for them to do the same thing. Except for the front side of the temple, three sides were made out of dirt and they are about to collapse and fall down. During leisure time, villagers, especially village elders, come and circumambulate the temple, we are afraid one of those people will be injured one day if the walls collapse and fall down. Not to mention the temple being ruined
This is another ruined water prayer wheel in Lurixi Tibetan Community built upon the sacred stream where giant salamanders live.
Diagrams
The General Picture of Lurixi Village and Five Parts of the Project
Repair the ruined water powered prayer wheels.
Repair the outside walls of the temple.
Repair the temple walls.
Map of Zhuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Prefecture, Gansu Province. 