Reports

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

Some American students donated these clothing for this project

Drolmatso is Askyid Village, Ruorgai County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and China. She graduated with associate degree in English and Tibetan from English Training Program, Qinghai Normal University, Currently, she is working as a project associate consultant for VID in Qinghai Province.

What: To provide Second-Hand clothing to the poorest families in Askyid Village in order to improve their living condition.

Project Location
Askyid Village, Ruorgai County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China

Brief Description of Implementation
The project was implemented on February15th of 2008. It was the time that the weather was extremely cold in Asyid Village and also the time for the villagers to celebrate Losar. According to those villagers’ custom, people would wear new clothes for Losar, especially children. Therefore, those poor and big families were in difficulties of buying both clothes and food for all their family members. I took that chance and distributed the clothes to the poorest families among Askyid Villagers Firstly; I talked to our village leaders about the second hand clothing. And then we chose the poorest families according to their economic situation and how many members does each family have. Finally, we took clothes those families and distributed to them. They were really enthusiastic toward this project, especially children.

Photos of the beneficiaries

Her name is Droltso; she is twenty-eight years old. She has five children. An unfortunate thing happened to her last year, her husband died because of thundering. Now she is alone to take care of five children. Her family condition is really poor, but she is trying her best to send her children to schools to get education. As she said knowledge is really important for children in the future, she was happy to contribute herself to them. When she received those clothes she was really happy and felt thank you to those donors. She said this can save a lot of money and also her children can be warm in such cold weather. She was saying that she was not good at talking, but from bottom of her heart she feels thanks very much for these kindhearted contributors.

Her name is Tseji, she is sixty-five years old. Same as all other villagers she is a nomad and her life was accompanied by milking, herding, and doing all other house works. In addition, there was a big tragedy come upon her when all her children were very young, that was her spouse was passed away. She had to take all her responsibilities to raise her children and give them a feeling of existence of a family that other children were having. She said every year when it was New Year her family had to find different ways to borrow money from other people buy the basic needs. She said to buy clothes it really costs a lot of money, and she now got so many grandsons and daughters they often demand clothes for the New Year. However, “we are really lucky this year to receive such warm and good clothes from warm hearted people. So thank you very much!” said she.

List of recipients

Thanks letter

Translated thanks letter

Dear American students,

Thank you very much for your great contribution that we received your clothing on February of 2008.We really felt lucky to receive such great clothes in such cold weather. This helps us to save our money and improve our living condition. As our living condition and we really have difficulties of spending much money to buy clothes. However, this time we received these clothes and we really appreciate this contribution.

We want to say thank you very much to those people and we would remember them. We wish everything goes well with them and I will always chant scriptures for their great Karma. Once again thank you very much.

From all Asyid Villagers

February 25^th 2008