Shem Women's Group - empowering Tibetan women and their communities through grassroots development

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Cultural Preservation Project for Fudi Village
Project Manager: Samtsogye (Whitney)

This project is to re-constructing the prayer hall of Fudi Village. In addition, to buy 50 prayer wheels, Tangkas, Buddha Images, religious books for the prayer hall and fill in the half-empty clay images of the temple; to repair the leaking roof of the village temple and make a mini-path around the prayer hall wider, and widen the road underneath the prayer hall by embanking a 1000-meter-long and 10-meter-wide dam in Fudi Village.

Shem USA funded this project

Cultural Preservation Project for Xialadi Village
Project Manager: Padmatso (Bethany)

To strengthen Tibetan culture and teach younger generations about religion; strengthen community ties, provide a place for lay people and practitioners to worship and conduct rituals and practices, encourage daily exercise, and raise morale.

Shem’s private donors funded this project.

Cultural Preservation Project for Waku Village
Project Manager: HlamoTso (Gina)

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This project is to buy 320 m^2 of stainless steel sheet to repair the village stupa and protect local culture through preserving the village stupa as local tangible cultural artifact and to provide spiritual support to local people.

Asia Foundation funded this project

Cultural Preservation Project for Lurixi Tibetan Community
Project Manager: Gatubdrolma (Lillian)

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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

Cultural Preservation for Tawa Gongma Nunnery
Project Manager: Samtsogye (Whitney)

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Completing Tawa Gonmga nunnery’s new prayer hall, elevating the nuns’ status within the Labrang community, and validating and preserving the cultural practices of the oldest nunnery in the Labrang valley.

Kitty Makley funded this project