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Hebertpur: With funding from the Clear Water Project, the Tibet Fund provided $13,978 to the Tibetan Settlement in Herbertpur for a drinking water facility. Orissa: Again, with funding from the Clear Water Project, the Tibet Fund provided $7,527 to the Tibetan Settlement in Orissa for a project to bring safe drinking water to its 800 residents. The project will enable water to be pumped from dug wells to overhead storage tanks and from these tanks, to each family’s courtyard. Ladakh: The Clear Water Project also contributed $5,000 towards the drinking water project of Sonamling and Changthang Tibetan Settlements in Ladakh. * Bringing Technology to the Tibetan Community in Exile: The benefits of new technology in all aspects of community and personal life are evident and the Tibet Fund began to seek resources to help bring these benefits to the Tibetan community in exile.
The Salesforce.com/ Foundation responded to the Tibet Fund’s request for assistance, providing the entire funding to establish computer labs in 8 Tibetan schools in India and Nepal. Tibetan students in these schools are learning basic computer skills as well as more advanced graphic programs to create school magazines and create and update their own website. In addition, the use of email and the internet has opened up a whole new horizon to these students. The total cost of the Project is $100,000
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Salesforce.com/ Foundation and the Flora Family Foundation jointly funded another project to link the Tibetan settlements by e-mail. So far 33 office staff have received training and hardware has been installed in 28 settlements and welfare offices.
The benefits of this project are nothing short of amazing. Where it would often take weeks to communicate via mail, these groups are now able to communicate instantly by email. The total cost of the project is: $71,378 It is planned to bring the internet to the remaining settlements once the general telephone infrastructure improves in some of the more remote settlements in Arunachal, Orissa, Mainpat and Bhandara have improved. * Two Tibetan schools at Jampaling and Tashi Palkiel in Nepal: received $9,346.00 from Tibet Fund’s long time friend, Peggy Day to purchase books and computers. With assistance from Ms. Day, "Room to Read," a non-profit organization that facilitates education in poor Asian communities, helped establish computer labs and provide training in these two schools. * Staff quarter at Gangchen Kyishong: The CTA provides housing to their Tibetans staff members because their salaries are quite low. However, over 70 staff members without CTA housing have had to live in rented quarters and pay rents in excess of Rs. 1000 a month. This has caused financial problems to many so the CTA has had to construct additional housing in Dharamsala. The Tibet Fund contributed $ 44,068 for construction of a two-story building for 14 family staff quarters. * Public Toilet facility: Dharamsala draws thousands of visitors, particularly when His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives religious teachings. There are, however, no public toilets in the area and this has caused severe sanitation problems. In order to alleviate this problem, the Department of Home approached Tibet Fund for help with construction of a complex of toilet facilities near the Thekchen Choling Temple, site of the teachings by His Holiness. In 1998, the Tibet Fund provided a grant of $28,000 for this purpose but construction was delayed for several years because the necessary permits were not received from the local government. The delay resulted in increased costs and at the |
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