• Built a guest house and community hall for the Mainpat settlement, India
  • Purchased a tractor for the cooperative society of the Mainpat settlement, India
  • Built a community hall for the Lingtsang Settlement, India
  • Built a Settlement Office and Guest house at the Bhonpo Settlement, India
  • Construction of staff quarters at Gangchen Kyishong, India
  • Supported project to transfer audio/visual material in the Library for Tibetan Works and Archives to digital format

Programs Inside Tibet:

As Tibet Fund evolves, we continue to evaluate our programs and identify new opportunities in which every penny of donor support will reach the most needy. To This end, the Tibet Fund Board has attempted to address urgent problems among the Tibetans in Tibet through the Khawachen (Snowland) Assistance Program (KAP). KAP has provided assistance in the areas of education, health, and economic development to address issues of malnutrition, high infant mortality, inadequate medical services, illiteracy, and a lack of vocational training and job opportunities, especially in some of the more remote and rural areas which rarely receive aid to work. Below are some of KAP’s project highlights in the year 2001:

Surgical Eye Camp:

To help reduce the high incidence of blindness caused by cataracts, the Khawachen Assistance Program supports traveling eye camps in Tibet. These eye camps have provided of Tibetans in the remote nomadic regions of Tibet. In 2001, with support from KAP, a traveling eye camp restored sight to a total of 233 cataract blind patients.

    


Chushul Orphanage:

KAP financed the building of an orphanage outside of Lhasa, called the Chushul Home. The orphanage is home to 18 children, and the KAP provides yearly support for maintaining the orphanage and its children.

Training for Tibetan Professionals in the United States:

Since 1997, KAP has brought a total of 31 Tibetan scholars and students to the United States to obtain training in various fields, including English language, international development, business and health administration, and computer science. Participants in this program obtain first hand knowledge of the American people and culture, as they improve their English language skills. They also have the opportunity to teach Americans about the Tibetan culture and way of life. Furthermore, they return to Tibet with the skills and capabilities to enrich their local communities. In 2001, nine students arrived in the United States.

English Language and Computer Training

Program in Dhartesdo, Tibet:

KAP has launched a new English Language and Computer Training Program in Dhartesdo, capital of the Kandze Autonomous Prefecture, where Tibetans make up approximately 40% of the total population of 130,000. Students selected to participate in this program have completed at least the 9th grade, and are required to take an entrance test in the Tibetan language. The program supports 30 Tibetan students annually, who will receive training for one academic year, in English and Computer Science. They will also have the option of taking additional courses in Tibetan language, Tibetan culture and law, as well as in Chinese. Like the English Language Training Program in Beijing, this program provides invaluable skills for the Tibetan population, which has such limited access to higher education. It is our intention for the participants in this program to be able to serve their communities in positions of leadership.

 

  

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