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To supply water system to the Kangmo Monastery’s monks to improve their living condition.

The The Royal Netherlands Embassy Funded this project

Hlamo Tso is from Waku Village，Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province， P.R.C. She is currently working towards an Associate’s degree in English with the English Training Program at Qinghai Normal University Nationalities Departme

What? Supply clean and potable drinking water for 45 monks’ households in Kangmo monastery.

Who? Kangmo Monastery, Wendu Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province

Photos of project implementation

As shown in the two pictures above, the community is measuring the distance from the monastery to the spring. They are all very happy to participate in the community project.

Here locals are counting the number of people from each village who will be able to work during the implementation. Working together they all shared their work experience and knowledge.

Here they are discussing about the payments and expenditures for digging around the spring and the fees for the construction of water boxes.

The picture above shows the process of purchasing the PVC pipe.

The three pictures above show the moment when the iron bars and metal tubes are being purchased.

The monk is covering the valves and three-way pipes with white lacquer

The monks divided into two groups when digging the ditch. Here is the first group digging in an area far from the Monastery. Their major concern during the project identification was over how to get funds for purchasing the materials. Once this was provided with the support of the Royal Netherlands Embassy, they were all motivated to contribute with their own work labor. They all found the work quite easy, and no one in the group missed a day of work.

Above, volunteers from the village help the monks to dig the ditch. Everyone was really collaborative; they helped each other whenever confronted with a difficult task.

This is the place where the water box was constructed. Some workers stayed here day and night to look after the materials used for the water box. A total of two water boxes were built along the dig as a mechanism to access the water tube in case problems would arise.

Here, one of the workers is checking the foundation of the water box before the construction begins.

Monks hired these armor plates and steel poles from town factory for constructing the water box.

The picture shows the structure of the water box in construction.

To consolidate the walls of the water box, we covered them with a layer of cement and then waited until it would dry up to finish the rest. In this picture, the Monks are helping some workers to set up steel poles and wooden panels to cover the water box structure to protect it from the rain until the cement dries up.

Here it is one of the water box already finished. From this part of the dig we can access the water tubes to check and control for any problems.

Interviews

The picture above shows the project manager HlamoTso(Gina) together with the monks who have been responsible for the project. This picture was taken once the project was over. They are very happy that the project had been successfully implemented.

This picture was taken just after the water box was completed. At this time, we did several tests to make sure that everything was working. The water ran strongly and powerfully making all the monks and locals happy.

I interview Song Gyamtso and one of his students. The student said that he now could spend more time reading books instead of carrying water from the river valley every day. (The structure above was built for every household; underneath there is an outlet to the water tube)

 

In winter the water tab will freeze, therefore the structure was designed in a way that the monks can also get the water directly from the tube which can be access though an outlet underneath.

Tuden Xirao is planning to wash his towel with clean water. During the interview, he said: “Now I can use plenty of water to wash my stuff without worrying of running out of it.”

These three monks build up this board and wrote down the message shown above. They said: “We should remember this wonderful accomplishment in the monastery, especially TheRoyal Netherlands Embassy” .

Project Summary

Project title: Running Water for Kangmo Monastery

Project goals: The overall goal of the project: Improve the living conditions in the monastery. The immediate goal of the project: Supply water system for 45 households of monks’ in Kangmo monastery.

Location of project: This project is located in Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province. The monastery is in the southeastern part of Xining (the capital city of Qinghai Province). It is approximately 300 km away from Xining.

Total beneficiaries: All the 60 monks in Kangmo monastery directly benefit from this project and around 2,457 people from five nearby villages receive indirect benefits. The villagers will no longer need to carry water for monks during New Year or festivals. Being a task relegated to women, this project has helped to take out some their burden.

Implementation organization/individual: Hlamotso (Gina), Gaydan (The second manager of the monastery) and Shem Women’s Group.

Contact Group: Shem Women’s Group

Funds received: Source, Amount, and Date Received

The Royal Netherlands Embassy funded this project for a total of 65,582rmb, which is to be given in two installments, 80% of the funds at the beginning of the project and the other 20% once the project is finished and the final report completed.

On July 11^th, 2007 the first installment for the amount of 52,465rmb was received.

Details of project activities

The originally planned project activities

1. Collect information regarding the basic needs for the monks. (Already completed.)

2. Visit Jirmey, who is a kind of leader in the monastery. Also discuss the project with Songyal Jamtso, Gaydan and Sandan to make sure they agree with and support this project. (Already completed.)

3. With the above group, visited the spring, which is sustainable and will supply the monastery with its new water source. (Already finished.)

4. Discuss the project’s needs with Lijia Tsairing (who has completed three water projects in Xunhua areas). (Already completed.)

5. Contact the firm’s leader to get specifications and prices for all of the materials. (Already finished.)

6. Receive funds.

7. Water project committee is established with the participation of monks. This committee will be composed of eight people - two men, five monks and Lhamotso (Gina). (Already done).

8. Contracts are signed with the water project committee. Monks prepare sand and stones for the construction of the water tanks. (Already done)

9. Purchased iron bars and cement (from a Xunhua Factory).

10. Build the water tanks.

11. Monks dig the ditch.

12. Purchased Plastic pipes from the Lanzhou City Plastic Factory. The other materials like valves, spigots, connectors and bricks will be bought from the Xunhua Factory.

13. The running water pipe line is buried in the ditches.

14. Water is piped to 45monks’ household courtyards.

15. Establish a sustainable management plan. This will involve choosing five members who are responsible and have good reputations within the monastery by a meeting. These members will manage the system for a set period of time, and will then choose a new committee for the upcoming years.

16. Document the success of the project, and interview the monks and take photos

17. Write final report

18. Send the final report with photos and receipts.

Activities realized in the framework of the project

1. Funds were received on July 11^th, 2007

2. Water project committee was established with the participation of monks. This committee was composed of nine people - four men, four monks and Lhamotso (Gina)

3. Hold meeting and discussed the purchasing materials and place.

4. Contracts signed with the water project committee.

5. Monks prepared sand and stones for the construction of the water tanks.

6. Purchased iron bars and cement (from a Xunhua Factory)

7. Monks dug the ditch.

8. Purchased plastic pipes from the Lingxia City Plastic Factory the other materials like valves, spigots, connectors and bricks were bought from the Xunhua Factory.

9. The running water pipe line was set up along the ditch

10. Purchased bricks from county town.

11. Water was supplied through pipes to the 45 monks’ household courtyards.

12. Hired 17 outside people to dig near the spring

13. Built the water boxes

14. Established a sustainable management plan. That involved choosing five members who would be responsible and have good reputations within the monastery. These members manage the system for a set period of time, and will then choose a new committee for the upcoming years.

15. Document the success of the project, and interview the monks and take photos

16. Write final report.

17. Send the final report with photos and receipts.

Detailed budget

		Original Budget			Actual Budget
Rec eipt #	Item	Do nor Con trib uti on in rmb	Lo cal Con trib ut ion in rmb	To tal co st in rmb	Do nor Con trib ut on in rmb	Loc al Con trib uti on in rmb	To tal co st in rmb	Diff ere nce (Be twe en ori gin al and ac tual budg ets)
1	Cem ent	3,300	0	3,300	3,520	0	3,520	-220
2	Pipes, spigots, connec tions, valves, metal wire, screw	58,632	0	58,6 32	50,397	0	50,3 97	+8,235
3	Bricks	3,650	0	3,6 50	4,390	0	4,390	-740
4	Tran spor tation fee	0	0	0	0	1640	1,640	-1,640
5	Hired pay ment	0	0	0	7,100	0	7,100	-7,100
6	Wel ding	0	0	0	124	392	516	-516
7	Water test fee	0	0	0	28	0	28	-28
	Proj ect man age ment expe nses	0	70	70	0	869.4	(1)869.4	-799.4
	Proje ct man age ment paym ent	0	500	500	0	500	(2)500	0
	Total	65,582	570	66,1 52	65,559	3,401.4	68,9 60.4	(3)-2, 009

Notes:

Total donor contribution for the project is 65,582rmb. The first installment (80% of the total contribution) was received on July 11^th for the amount of 52,465rmb. Having finished the project, the actual expenses assigned to the donor contribution amounts to 65,558.6rmb, therefore the money to be reimbursed is 13,093.60rmb. Only 80% of the funds were available for the project, so after the digging was over, there was not enough money to purchase the cement and bricks (we paid half of the brick fee) and to clear the payments for the water boxes workers and outside workers who worked round the near spring. So I owed the money from the workers and in case I also borrowed some money from one of my middle school teacher.

(1)Shem paid the project management expenses.

(2)Shem paid the project management payment.

(3)The local people paid an overcost of 2,009rmb excluding the project management expenses and payment.

List of recipients

The name list of all the monks in Kangmo Monastery

Gaydan jaymay	PangTso	Danchi	Zongzhi	Gele
Lengzhi	RengchinJaytso	Jeemay	Huaidanjaytso	Gedanjaytso
Nima	Tuden	Tserangbaidan	Luosanghuaidan	Wozhi
Jaymei Xierai	SonanRaijay	Luozhisangbo	GaydanDorjee	Kaizhidorjee
jaytso	Danchijaytso	Sangjeejaytso	Tudanxirai	Chuqong
Zongzhi Raijee	Raijay	Jiantso	Xeirai	Yeshi
GaysangNorbu	Tudenxianba	Geden	TudanJyatso	Jaiyangmulan
ZhibaDongzhi	Sandan	Mulan	XiraiPangtso	Luodan
JeemeiPangtso	Jaymai	Danzeng	Gedenjyatso	Jyamaisuoba
Zongzhijaytso	Gaydan	Luosang	Zhiba	Suoba
Pangtsonorbu	Luozhijaytso	Gongque

Delays, difficulties, and lesson learned

Delay of activities

There were several reasons that delayed the implementation of the project. First, because this was first time for me to implement a running water project and I lacked experience. The first thing I had planned was the digging and after this was finished and the pipes were already set on the ditches, we realized about the water boxes. It took us one more week to find the workers and experts as well as the metal tools to construct the water boxes, so this affected the motivation of the monks and some of the workers.

Second, the weather conditions during the construction of the water box made the work harder for both monks and workers. Because it rained a lot during the implementation, it affected the quality of water boxes and did not get a chance for the cement to dry-up so the project was delayed again and almost wasted almost ten days. We had to wait until the weather got nice and sunny before we could begin constructing the water boxes.

Third, our team’s lack of experience in project planning caused the purchasing process to be a little time consuming because at times we forgot to buy some materials and this required us to go back to the factory again and again. This took three more days.

Lastly, another problem we faced during the implementation of the project was finding people to dig near the spring because locals had a strong belief that if we destroyed the springs, the water deities would get angry and could cause people to lose their life; because of this no one wanted to work near the spring, even though they were getting paid. In addition, the monks lacked ways of communicating with outsiders such Salar people or Chinese so we spent almost two weeks to look for people who were willing to work for this construction work.

Therefore the whole project took one month longer than what I planned in the original project proposal due to the reasons above.

Difficulties encountered when implementing the project

The weather caused many difficulties and delays. It is very hard to dig in rainy days because it causes problems transporting the materials, and more days are wasted on it.

The weather was very unpredictable so we had to finish the digging as soon as possible, otherwise it could be dangerous for both people and livestock. An old monk fell down into one of the ditches and he nearly passed away. To reduce this risk we (the project community) planed to ask for help from local villagers, that way we could finish digging quickly in sunny days and cover the ditches soon. They all agreed at first, however when we divided the work for each village according to the number of households they were lot of conflicts and disagreements between the leaders. As a girl, I founded it really hard to solve the conflicts among them; even if I said something it would be useless. This situation made me feel really bad; after all everyone saw me as the person in charge of the project.

Luckily, this conflict was solved by assigning numbers to certain areas according the quality of soil (sometimes it’s easy to dig and sometimes it’s rocky) and then we let the leaders picked up randomly a paper with one of the numbers. Then, according to the number the leader had picked villagers had to work on that area.

During the construction of the water box, we hired the armor plates and steel poles from the town factory; however, the time available to use them was limited because another community needed it to build a stupa. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t allow us to finish the work within the timeline and we had to delay our work until the weather improved. During this time the factory kept asking for the materials again and again. At that moment, we felt helpless.

Another difficulty was the fact that only 80% of the funds were available for the project, so after the digging was over, there was not enough money to purchase the cement and bricks (we paid half of the brick fee) and to clear the payments for the water boxes workers and outside workers who worked round the near spring. Here it is very hard to owe and borrow money from others. Especially difficult is to ask workers to wait for their payments.

Lessons learned

Throughout the implementation of the project, I acquired experience on dealing with different people. I also had to convince others and try to make them come to terms; for instance, I had to try to make village leaders, factory and workers to agree to wait for the payments for a while. After all this, I felt more confident to negotiate with others and come to agreements. Also, I learned some strategies of how to make decisions.

I also learned that self-confidence is a key factor for project managers, especially female managers, because most people have negative stereotypes towards women and think that we are unable to do something important like men. Actually, women can also do something important, but we need confidence in order to keep pursuing our goal even when others doubt about us. Now, some people’s opinions toward women have changed since I implemented the project. Especially because the project was located in a monastery and is highly respected by locals, people think that doing this was a great improvement.

Now that the project is finished, I can go back to the things that were done in the process and learn from mistakes. If I were to do it again, the first thing I would plan to build would be the water boxes. After all this, I feel more confident to do any other running water project.

Changes and Variations from Original Project (Beneficiaries, Budget, Activities, Time frame)

One of the things that differed from the original proposal was the number of beneficiaries. During my visit to the project site in the identification phase, I identified 43monk households but by the time the project was funded the number increased to 45. Therefore, changes were made to the original plan. Also, there was some variation in the price of materials, some increased while others went down during the time

of implementation. This is one of the reasons for which the original budget changed. Also the factory changed because of the distance from home to Lingxia is closer and I found out that the prices were more reasonable there than Langzhou factory. Another change is that it rained a lot during the implementation; it affected the quality of water boxes and did not get a chance for the cement to dry-up so the project was delayed again. We had to wait until the weather got nice and sunny before we could begin constructing the water boxes. So the project took longer than 50days.

Scanned letter in Tibetan

The translation of Thank you Letter

Dear Royal Netherlands Embassy:

With compassion, you improved the water condition for all the monks in the monastery. Now, we do not need to worry about the water condition nor the difficulties of carrying water from long distance.

With your help, we are able to use the clean water and thus the monks are able to spend more times on studying in the monastery. For all this, here, we are expressing our appreciation to you!

We wish the best for all of you!

From:

Monks of the Kangmo Monastery

10/10/2007

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Original Proposal

Project location
Kangmo monastery is located 14 kilometers southeast of the administrative center of Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province. This monastery has 43 households with 57 monks. All residents are Tibetan and most come from Zhoung Ku, a town consisting of seven small villages. Some monks come from other places in Wendu Township. Zhoung Ku is in a valley surrounded by mountains and is located 12 kilometers southeast of the WenduTibetan Township’s administrative.

Population
In Kangmo monastery there are 14 monks who are over sixty years old ,and there are 27 monks who are age twenty to forty. There are 16monks who are six to twenty years old and total in Kangmo monastery there are 57 monks.

Education
Most of the monks over sixty speak only Tibetan. Although they have a thorough knowledge of Tibetan, they have received no formal education. The middle-aged monks are bilingual, and can speak Tibetan and Qinghai’s Chinese dialect. Some of them also know some English words. The youngest monks from six to ten years old are staring to learn Tibetan at the monastery.

Cash income
Most of the monks in Kangmo monastery have barely enough money to support themselves. They don’t receive any backing from the government; and the villagers, with their small incomes, are not able to lend much support. On average, each monk can earn approximately 650rmb each year. They earn cash performing religious rituals, mostly during the winter. Some of these rituals include: funerals, chanting scriptures for a bride before her wedding and Nangney (fasting).
One monk’s yearly living expenses, including fuel, medicine, salt, clothes, and electricity, are around 430rmb on average. In the winter, local families invite monks for rituals, so they eat with the family who invited them. In other seasons, however, they usually make breads, cook noodles for themselves. Each monk also must spend about 120 rmb for the Tibetan New Year celebration because they have many visitors during this time.

Agriculture
The monks have no land to plant crops. Though most of their families have small un-irrigated farms, the monks at the monastery get very little support from them. Usually each family might contribute 100kg of flour and 5kg of oil every year. Almost every monk’s family owns 6-10 mu (Chinese unit of area mu (1/15 of a hectare) of land. The village lacks mechanized tools, so fields are plowed using mules or horses. Other activities such as weeding and harvesting are done by hand and are thus strenuous, time consuming.
Wheat is the village staple, which is used for self-consumption (bread, noodles) and to pay the government’s tax levies. Other crops include barley, rapeseed, potatoes, and beans. On average, the land belonging to each household can produce 520 kg of wheat, 200 kg of barley, 100 kg of rapeseed, 460 kg of potatoes and 50 kg of beans in each year. Much of the agricultural work is the duty of women. Agriculture in the village is difficult because:

1. Drought is common. And when drought strikes, crop yields are low
2. Fields that are not irrigated are difficult to cultivate
3. Irrigated land is very limited
4. Sometimes hail destroys crops
5. Difficulties in farming mean that villagers rarely have spare food or money with which to support the monks at the monastery, let alone themselves.
6. Animal disease. (Animals have died from lung cancer and infectious disease)

Herding/livestock
Village families also raise livestock. There are 10 livestock ( such as goats, sheep, mules, donkeys and horses)in each family on average. The grass areas are not fertilized well because villagers have dug for medical herbs. Eventually, these areas were destroyed due to excess digging. Some thieves from other communities also attack villagers. Other problems villagers have in herding and tending to these animals: Conflicts between Tibetan communities over grazing areas.
In some years, heavy snow causes the death of many young animals and female animals.
Death of livestock from natural causes. For example, in the summer of 2003, it thundered into the flock of sheep at the mountain and killed 240 sheep, and lacked weeds in spring and winter.

Weather
Local people keep a constant fire burning in their stoves for almost six months of the year because it is cold. Previously, monks used firewood from the forest nearby to cook and heat their homes. Recently the government has banned collecting wood from the forest, so monks must spend 180 rmb on fuel per year now because of the cold weather. Also it is drought and that causes problems for growing crops.

Project goals
The immediate goal of the project is to build running water system for 43 households of Kangmo monastery monks, in Wendu Tibetan Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province.

The overarching goal of the project is to supply clean, secure and dependable water for the monks.

The need of the project
This monastery consists of 57 monks within 43households. Access to drinking water is difficult for villagers. In recent years drought has been common, so the water resource where the monks get water as usual have been very limited. A river near the monastery is the only water resource for the monastery, but the water from river is dirty by the livestock and the villages live upper-reach of the river. During the spring and summer, the water is dirty with dung and swimming, which influences the monks’ health, also the flood. During winter, the river dries under the ice that makes hard for monks. So the monks have to beg the water from other families in Dangkha village, which located 2 kilometers away from the monastery. Getting water is the hardest of the household chores. Also it’s very hard to ask families for water many times because of local people have strong belief that if you carry the blank buckets to enter the family, it’s a kind inauspicious omen so they wouldn’t happy about this. Then it’s a difficult task for them like harvest. The monastery is located higher place like on top of a small and the river is below, so they need to climb to reach the monastery with the big buckets of water. Sometimes they injured from getting water especially for the old monks, in situation like raining or frozen time. For e.g. A’ke Luosang the oldest monk in the monastery, one of his rib was broken when he carrying a plastic pipe of water on his back. He stepped on the iced road and slipped down and broke his rib.

The problems

Dirty and less water
Other villages who live upside of river and the livestock step or swim into the water polluted it with yak dung or the garbage as old clothes, shabby shoes, and plastic stuffs from the people who live upside. The river has frozen under ice during the winter and the water also dried up under ice. A small spring, which is beside the river near the temple, is also dried up as the river drying. So the water is very less during the winter. Mostly the water has dried during the New Year time, and again the monks can’t have relaxes during the New Year. It’s just like harvest for them. Because of Less water in the winter they cannot use more water on washing, as clothes, vegetables. Especially form June 15th to Auguest1st they can’t produce cleaner water for them during the ritual that hold for 45 days in the autumn. Again they need to spend four more hours to beg the water from other families in Dangkha village, which located 2 kilometers away from the monastery. The water from the river is dirty in summer and autumn. Because it’s raining season, and more floods, so they also need to beg for water.

They are greed on water and not use more on washing clothes, vegetables as well. Sometimes because of limited time they get dirty water from the river put for a while, and let it become a little clean, and then they use it for drinking water instead of go far village or begging water. So it affects their healthy as lung cancer and stomach.

Monks need to worry about the young monks study
The young monks need spend more time during winter and spring due to shortage of water. Because they need to spend four hours on carrying water per day that they couldn’t do morning practices.

Injury
In winter, the snow melted on the road and froze. The way from river to Kangmo monastery is slope, so it’s very dangerous for monks to walk on it especially for the old monks who haven’t disciples. During the raining season, because of road is slope, so it’s very easy to slip down with full buckets of water. For example, A’ke Luosang who is the oldest monk in the monastery, one of his rib was broken when he carrying a plastic pipe of water on his back. He stepped on the iced road and slipped down and broke his rib.

Benefits

1. Improve health conditions with secure water.
Clean, reliable water will improve the monks’ health. They will be able to wash their homes, food, clothes and bodies more regularly. Diseases would also spread less quickly among the monks.

2.The young monks will have more time to spend on their studies.
The young monks won’t need to spend hours each day fetching water for the monastery’s needs. They will have four extra hours daily in which to study. They will be able to use this time to join in morning ritual practices, read more scriptures and study educational books. Their quality of education will improve and elder monks will no longer have to worry as much about the younger monks’ futures.

3.Reduce the risks involved in fetching water.
The monks won’t need to traverse the dangerous path to the river or spring whilst carrying water buckets on their shoulders. They will be able to use water at any time, regardless of the season or the weather conditions. Injuries associated with fetching will have been prevented.

Gender equality
In Wendu Tibetan Township in Xunhua County men and women alike, believe that women are inferior. There are many systems in place in the village that discriminate against women, from unequal work practices to religious rituals. From June 15th to August 1st, a ritual takes place within the monastery which specifies that women may not enter the monastery complex. For 45 days they are not allowed to even venture near it. Another example can be seen in the general preference for monks leading rituals in family’s houses, rather than nuns. Even though both monks and nuns practice the same religious ceremonies, the nuns are seen as inferior. If this project is funded, then there is a high possibility that the community’s perceptions of women will be better.

Village people will see that a woman can successfully design, manage and implement a much needed development project. An important message will be sent to the community at large. I have seen this transformation after other successful projects, including a solar cooker project in my local area. At this time, people said that young women such as me were actually better at getting things done than any man. I believe that through this project, people’s perceptions of women could change, and that it would be understood that women and girls could make genuine and substantial contributions to their communities.

Just before the New Year and during the June festival that holds in the monastery, prepare more water for the monks is often women’s task. They can’t enjoy during the time and need to carry more water for the monks and the visitors or guests. The villagers and few nuns already use the running water under government’s help, so local people don’t need to fetch water. However, because the monastery does not have access to the running water, local women still need to fetch water for the monks during the monastery festivals and rituals. Monks couldn’t get any help from government because government said it’s not their responsible to help monks. If this project is happened this way local women can get benefit through this project and they can enjoy during festival and their burden would be lighten.

Project Steps

1. Collect information about the basic needs for the monks. (Already completed.)
2. Visit Jirmey, who is a kind of leader in the monastery. Also discuss the project with Songyal Jamtso, Gaydan and Sandan to make sure they agree with and support this project. (Already completed.)
3. With the above group, visited the spring which is sustainable and will supply the monastery with its new water source. (Already finished.)
4. Discuss the project’s needs with Lijia Tsairing (who has completed three water projects in Xunhua areas). (Already completed.)
5. Contact the firm’s leader to get specifications and prices for all of the materials. (Already finished.)
6. Receive funds.
7. Water project committee is established with the participation of monks. This committee will be composed of eight people - two laymen, six monks and Lhamotso (Gina ). (Already done)
8. Contracts are signed with the water project committee. Monks prepare sand and stones for the construction of the water tanks.
9. Purchased Iron bars and cement (from a Xunhua Factory).
10. Build the water tanks.
11. Monks dig the ditch.
12. Purchased Plastic pipes from the Lanzhou City Plastic Factory . The other materials like valves, spigots, connectors and bricks will be bought from the Xunhua Factory.
13. The running water pipe line is buried in the ditches .
14. Water is piped to 43 monks’ household courtyards.
15. Establish a sustainable management plan. This will involve choosing five members who are responsible and have good reputations within the monastery by a meeting. These members will manage the system for a set period of time, and will then choose a new committee for the upcoming years.
16. Document the success of the project, and interview the monks and take photos
17. Write final report
18. end the final report with photos and receipts.

Time frame(In total the project needs almost 50 days for its completion.)

1 day: Establish project committee by holding a meeting.
2 days: Sign any contracts with the project committee.
10 days: Villagers prepare sand and stones for water tanks.
3 days: Purchase iron bars and cement (from Xining).
4days: Purchase plastic pipes (from Lanzhou city in Gansu province).
3 days: Purchase all remaining materials in Xunhua.
20 days: Running water pipe line is buried in the ditches.
10 days: Water is piped to the households’ courtyard.
1day: Hold meeting with the project committee.

Detailed budget
Donor contribution

Item	Number of items		Price per item rmb		Total rmb
Cement	11 ton		300 rmb/ ton		3,300
Plastic pipe 6pa # 50	2,000 m		10.1 rmb/ meter		20,200
Plastic pipe 4pa # 75	200 m		14.26 rmb/ meter		2,852
Plastic pipe 6pa # 32	1,700 m		5.5 rmb / meter		9,350
Plastic pipe 6pa # 25	4,200 m		3 rmb /meter		12,600
Valves 75mm	1		205 rmb		205
Valves 50 mm	1		125 rmb		125
Valves 32 mm	3		110 rmb / each		330
Valves 32mm	9		6 rmb/each		54
Iron bar #12	900 kg		6 rmb/ kg		5,400
Iron bar #14	500 kg		4.48 rmb/ kg		2,240
Iron bar #6.5	120 kg		4.3 rmb / kg		516
Bricks	14,600		0.25 rmb /brick		3,650
Connections (metal wire, screw)	200 kg		7 rmb per kg		1,400
Pipes, spigots, connections, valves. Total: 65,582rmb Local contribution	3,360.

Item	Price per Item rmb	Number of Items	Total rmb
Transportation fee for stones	40 / truck	7	280
Transportation fee for sand	35 / tractor	4	140
Labor	10 / day / person	47 people50 days	23,500
Management expenses	Phone calls, photocopying, mail and developing photos	70
Management fee	500
Total local contribution in cash: 24,490 rmb

Total project cost

Donor contribution	Local contribution	Total Cost in rmb
65,582rmb (8, 468.8 dollars)	24,490rmb	90,072rmb

Project Sustainability
The monastery will take care of the drinking water system and repair any damage in a timely manner. The monks have access to workers who have the necessary skills to repair such damage, as they will be involved in the entire process of this project.

Governmental support for the project
The local government believes that water, electricity and roads are the most important needs in the area. They gave their support to the project when a village secretary discussed it with Duojitai and Jaymay (the monastery manger).

Additional information
Lhamo Tso is from Waku village and she has managed some projects in Qinghai province and Sichuan province.In 2002, Lhamo Tso implemented and monitored (on a volunteer basis) a 3,900 rmb solar cooker project for Waku Tibetan Village , which was supported by Canada Fund.In 2003, Lhamo Tso did second hand clothes projects for Wahu, a local village. She chose the poorest families in the village. After families received clothes, they signed with a fingerprint.From August to December in 2005 Lhamo Tso worked for Green Kham, a grass-roots development organization based in Ganzi Prefecture , Sichuan Province. She helped the organization to evaluate their projects and translated proposals.

Photos

This picture was taken on the August 12th, 2006. Here the young monks are shown fetching water from the river, which is a time consuming, awkward task.

This is the spring that is sustainable during all the seasons, and where we plan to get the water from. It’s about three kilometers away from the monastery.

Jiemey (a leader at the monastery) and Songyal Jamtso visit the spring, which is three kilometers away from the monastery.

The monk is carrying two buckets of water on their shoulders.

There is another monk who is carrying two buckets of water on their shoulders.

Teacher Lorsang’s two students are carrying water to their home.

Project location ( Xunhua County )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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