past grants (2007)
education grants
- Association for International Solidarity in Asia
- Purpose: To renovate 2 classrooms in the Scipa village school and the village community hall, to construct a dry toilet (out house) for school, and to purchase basic equipment, educational materials and toys for the school.
- Location: Scipa Village, Degé County, Kardzé Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
- Amount: 2,885.81 USD
- Term: 2007
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Champa Kunchok
- Purpose: To construct a primary school in Diangu Village.
- Location: Zhuwo Township, Kardzé Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
- Amount: 2,368.23 USD
- Term: 2007
- Driru County Primary School
- Purpose: To purchase 20 computers to be used for computer instruction.
- Location: Driru County, Nakchu Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Amount: 14,504.93 USD
- Term: 2007
- Geshe Kelsang Norbu
- Purpose: To support 6 students for 4 years at the Tibet Medical College in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Location: Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region
- Amount: 15,137 USD
- Term: 2007-2010
- Kelsang Tibetan Traditional Medicine School
- Purpose: To construct 30 dormitories and one cafeteria for students at the Kelsang Tibetan Traditional
- Medicine School.
- Location: Malho (Henan) County, Malho (Huangnan) Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
- Amount: 102,100 USD
- Term: 2007-2008
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Dropen Tibetan Medical School
- Purpose: To rebuild a playground and purchase physical education equipment for the school’s 100 orphaned students.
- Location: Tawo Town, Machen County, Golok Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
- Amount: 10,834.60 USD
- Term: 2007
- Jiajia Village Primary School
- Purpose: To purchase teaching materials and supply clothing & food to students.
- Location: Jiajia Village, Dehe Township, Bayen (Hualong) County, Tsoshar (Haidong) Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 2,013 USD
- Term: 2007
- Jiayi Primary School
- Purpose: To construct a bathroom and cafeteria.
- Location: Daotanghe Town, Kungho County, Tsolho Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 14,450 USD
- Term: 2007
- Jiayi Primary School
- Purpose: To purchase 50 cafeteria tables, 30 benches for cafeteria, and 40 bunk beds.
- Location: Daotanghe Town, Kungho County, Tsolho Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 3,148 USD
- Term: 2007
- Pakpa Kyab
- Purpose: To purchase performance cost-umes for students in the Basiba class at Vocational School No. 1.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 10,372.34 USD
- Term: 2007
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Peltsek Tibetan Ancient Text Research
& Study Institute
- Purpose: To support 8 students at Tibet University in Lhasa for 4 years.
- Location: Lhasa/Lasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region
- Amount: 26,532 USD
- Term: 2007
- Qinghai Special Education School
- Purpose: To provide scholarships for 35 Tibetan students for 2 semesters and to print study related materials.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 7,142 USD
- Term: 2008
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Reshui Township Comprehensive
Primary School
- Purpose: To purchase Tibetan-language books for the school library, as well as a disinfector and deep freezer for food.
- Location: Zhama Village, Reshui Township, Dulan County, Tsonu (Haixi)
- Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 1,858.50 USD
- Term: 2007
- Shelkar Preliminary Primary School
- Purpose: To build a village-level kinder- garten in Shelkar Village.
- Location: Shelkar Village, Zhikatsé Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region
- Amount: 3,059.21 USD
- Term: 2007
- Tibet Education Forum Editorial Office
- Purpose: To publish 3,000 Tibetan and 3,000 Chinese copies of issues 4 and 5 of the Tibet Education Forum.
- Location: Barkham Minority Teacher Training School, Barkham (Ma’erkang) County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province
- Amount: 8,283.48 USD
- Term: 2007
healthcare grants
- Association for International Solidarity in Asia (ASIA)
- Purpose: To preserve the Tibetan medical tradition through the reconstruction and equipping of Troru monastery‘s Tibetan medical college, which will then enroll & train 40 students.
- Location: Jomda County, Chamdo Prefecture, TAR
- Amount: 160,011 USD
- Term: 2007
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Atröl Könchok Tsering
- Purpose: To construct a greenhouse for cultivation and research of medicinal plants.
- Location: Gyegu Town, Yüshü County, Yüshü Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 8,369 USD
- Term: 2007
- Chamdo Tibetan Medicine & Astrology Research Institute
- Purpose: To publish and distribute 2,000 copies of the book, Big Bone Disease Prevention and Treatment in Traditional Tibetan Medicines.
- Location: Chamdo Prefecture, TAR
- Amount: 3,324.47 USD
- Term: 2007
- Lowo Dechen Clinic—
Khenpo Karma Tsultrim
- Purpose: To expand the clinic at Lowo Dechen Monastery in order to provide better medical care to the local population.
- Location: Gertsé County, Ngari Prefecture, TAR
- Amount: 2,394.08 USD
- Term: 2007
- Dr. Lanke Jia
- Purpose: To produce a Tibetan-language health education radio program for 26 weeks.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 11,742 USD
- Term: 2007
culture grants
- Association for International Solidarity in Asia (ASIA)
- Purpose: To restore murals in the old temple of Galenteng Monastery.
- Location: Degé County, Kardzé Prefecture, Sichuan
- Amount: 99,531 USD
- Term: 2007
- Drangchar Magazine Editorial Office
- Purpose: To purchase one computer for the publication of Drangchar Magazine, a literary magazine which publishes short stories, poetry, and essays by Tibetan writers.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 1,160 USD
- Term: 2007
- Drangchar Magazine Editorial Office
- Purpose: To train twenty-three editors from the editorial offices of Ngawa Tibetan Research Magazine, Daser (Moonbeam), Ganggyen Metok (Snow Flower), Tibetan Education, Tibetan Folklore, Drangchar (Light Rains), Gangchen (Snowland) Youth Newspaper, Qinghai Tibetan Law Newspaper, and Qinghai Science Newspaper.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 9,973 USD
- Term: 2007
- Gangchen (Snowland) Youth Newspaper Editorial Office
- Purpose: To purchase one computer for the publication of Gangchen (Snowland) Youth Newspaper.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 1,160 USD
- Term: 2007
- Garden for Culture
- Purpose: To publish 1,000 copies of the annual issue of the Tibetan-language magazine Garden for Culture.
- Location: Mindrölling Monastery, Dranang County, Lhokha (Shannan) Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region
- Amount: 789 USD
- Term: 2007
- Kham Cultural Heritage Preservation and Development Association
- Purpose: To transcribe and perform final editing of a collection of audio materials related to oral folk traditions.
- Location: Dartsedo/Kangding County, Kardzé/Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province
- Amount: 13,381 USD
- Term: 2007
- Kham Cultural Heritage Preservation and Development Association
- Purpose: To collect and publish 100 illustrated stories for children.
- Location: Dartsedo (Kangding) County, Kardzé Prefecture, Sichuan Province
- Amount: 4,453 USD
- Term: 2007
- Laso Magazine, Editorial Office
- Purpose: To purchase 2 computers, 1 laser printer, and 1 scanner for the publication of Laso Magazine.
- Location: Tsö (Hezuo) City, Ganlho (Gannan)Prefecture, Gansu Province
- Amount: 3,260.04 USD
- Term: 2007
- Ngakmang Institute
- Purpose: To publish 1,000 copies each of The Collected Writings of Zuhchang Cheyang Toden Dorje, The Collected Writings of Dege Jigme Kelsang, The Collected Writings of Khaja Degan Rigzen Dujong, and The Collected Maps and Pilgrimage Guides of the Ngakmang of Amdo.
- Location: Xining City, Qinghai
- Amount: 18,506 USD
- Term: 2007
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Peltsek Tibetan Ancient Text Research
& Study Institute
- Purpose: To create an electronic version of a compilation of the Kagyu Lama‘s writings.
- Location: Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region
- Amount: 56,765 USD
- Term: 2007-2008
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Upper Tratsang Village
- Purpose: To build a temple to house a prayer wheel (mani khang).
- Location: Chumar Township, Bayen County, Tsoshar Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 3,881.15 USD
- Term: 2007
- Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
- Purpose: To create 40 web-accessible outlines of significant works of Tibetan literature.
- Location: New York City, New York, USA
- Amount: 35,000 USD
- Term: 2007
- Tibet Education Forum Editorial Office
- Purpose: To publish 3,000 Tibetan and 3,000 Chinese copies of issues 4 and 5 of the Tibet Education Forum.
- Location: Barkham Minority Teacher Training School, Barkham County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province
- Amount: 8,283.48
- Term: 2007
- Tibet Heritage Fund
- Purpose: To support the sustainable preservation and social rehabilitation of Leh Old Town.
- Location: Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir Province, India
- Amount: 24,000 USD
- Term: 2007
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Lower Tratsang Village
- Purpose: To build a temple to house a prayer wheel (mani khang).
- Location: Chumar Township, Bayen County, Tsoshar Prefecture, Qinghai Province
- Amount: 3,856 USD
- Term: 2007
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Yuthok Yönten Gönpo Center
- Purpose: To conduct literacy training, Tibetan cultural education, and training in Tibetan traditional handicrafts.
- Location: Degé and Pelyül counties, Kardzé Prefecture, Sichuan Province
- Amount: 80,724 USD
- Term: 2007-2008
