Health Education Among the Ultra-poor

Summary

To improve health among the school children in the Surmang catchment by advancing health education progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

There are over 300 children in this region who attend primary school. Their families are nomads and farmers who make less that US14¢/day. The schools are unheated and have broken windows and mud floors; no soccer pitches, no basketball courts. Are attended by children who have no soap, toothbrushes, one set of clothing.

Activities

Provide stoves, repair windows, install floors; install soccer and basketball courts; blackboards, desks chairs, pencils, notebooks, winter clothing, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap. Comm. Health Workers teach health ed., visits by Surmang's docs

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Decrease in chronic upper GI problems; Decrease of tooth loss due to infection, lack of early detection. Decrease in iodine-deficiency through regular examination. Decrease in flu-type virus due to lack of clothing and heat

Project Message

"We can have a big impact on the health of these very poor people by teaching them when they are young, when the teachers are their own people. We can influence public health education by example."
- Phuntsok Dongdrup, Clinic Director, Surmang Foundation

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Lee Weingrad,
Founder
13536 Gold Hill Rd
Boulder, CO 80302
United States
888-439-9991 x 101
Email:

Project Sponsor

Lee Weingrad

Organisation

Surmang Foundation
13536 Gold Hill Rd.
Boulder, CO 80302
United States
+8610 6456 0929
http://www.surmang.org

Learn more about Surmang Foundation and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in China and can also be found under Health.

For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 07, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 25, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

A Year of Living Generously

By Lee Weingrad - CEO, Surmang Foundation, June 11, 2010 12:03 PM

first use of new classroom

The 3 Modi Schools are located in the Yushu Prefecture, a 100% ethnic Khampa Tibetan region of China. This place is part of the ultra-poor region of China, where the farmers and nomads earn less than US14¢/day. We had thought about extending health education to the children of Modi, but when we first saw the condition of the schools, we realized that it was impossible to teach the children hygiene when there are mud floors and walls; when they sit on tree stumps instead of chairs; where windows have no glass.

As a result of the generosity of the patrons of Globalgiving, as well as the PTA Charity Bazaar of the Western Academy of Beijing, and Nike (China) in one year we were able to:

+put in wood floors, ceilings +add desks and chairs +add double-paned windows +contribute new down jackets +give pencils, notebooks, crayons +feed the 10 or so children who don't have enough to eat +tile the outside of the buildings +give each child toothpaste, and a toothbrush +add a new yak-dung burning stove

The result is that the children are proud and energetic learners. In fact the three schools have become the pride of their communities. In the future we plan on adding a shower and toilet as well as a football (soccer) pitches.

Thanks Globalgiving!