also raised and sent to India for the sponsorship of monks and nuns in monasteries throughout India.  

The Blue Book Project:

The Tibetan Solidarity Alliance Blue Book project was initiated in 1997 to solicit annual contributions from individuals who each receive a Blue Book. Patterned after the Tibetan Freedom Movement Green Book which facilitates annual giving by Tibetans to support the work of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), annual contributions of Blue Book Project participants are recorded in their books and funds raised are sent directly to the CTA to use at their discretion for their most important projects. 

In 2002, the Tibet Fund sent $37,716.11 from the Blue Book Project to the CTA .

Funding from Foundations and Private Donors:

The Tibet Fund continues to actively seek funding from foundations and private donors to support additional projects to help the Tibetan communities in exile. These include:

* Assistance to the Ngoenga School for Handicapped Tibetan Children: Opened in March 2000 with seed money donated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this is the first and only school of its kind for disabled Tibetan children. Through the generosity of The Workplace Campaign,The Namaste Foundation, Ms. Polly Yau and other individuals, the Tibet Fund has helped build covered footpaths to make it easier for wheelchair bound students to move around the school grounds. Additional funding was provided for construction of staff quarters and a dining hall.  To be completed by the summer of the year 2003, this project is estimated to cost $48,617.23.

 		   

 

* Land development and Irrigation Canal Renovation in Jampaling Tibetan Settlement, Helitar, Nepal.
To assist one of the poorest Tibetan settlements in Nepal to improve their agricultural production, the Tibet Fund provided $14,327 for the renovation of a canal to divert water from the Khola River into the settlement. This will provide the water necessary for irrigation as well as for community and individual vegetable gardens in the settlement. Funding for this project was made possible by a generous contribution from Ms. Judith Cosper.

* Construction of a Home for Elders, Kathmandu, Nepal.
With funding from the Flora Family Foundation, in 2001 the Tibet Fund provided $65,000 to the Snow Lion Foundation to construct a home for elders in Kathmandu, Nepal. Due to construction delays and other problems, the original budget proved to be inadequate and the Tibet Fund had to again approach the Flora Family Foundation for an additional funding of $20,000. Construction is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2003.

* Drinking Water Projects in four Tibetan Settlements in India:

Mainpat: The Tibet Fund provided a total of $102,229.02 to bring safe drinking water to the residents of Mainpat Settlement, one of the poorest of the Tibetan settlements in India. Bore wells and overhead water tanks with built-in filtration mechanism and a piping system, which is connected to every household, were installed in each of the seven camps. The project, initiated in 2000 with funding from the Flora Foundation, Ms. Polly Yau and Mr. Hsu-Chen, was completed in 2002.

 

  

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