Educating Tibetan Refugee Children and Youth

Summary

Help 50 Tibetan Bon children and youths access primary through post-secondary education. progress report read updates from the field

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	£17 - Provides 3 nutritious meals to 126 orphans and poor Tibetan refugee students.
	£22 - Provides room and board at school for one Tibetan refugee for one month.
	£31 - Provides books and school supplies to 10 students for one year.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The Bon are a minority Tibetan ethnic group that fled to India when the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1959. In 1968, the Bon established a community in Dolanji, India. Today, the 80-family community has two children’s hostels, school (to the 10th class), a health center and community farm. The students in the Bon community come from Tibet, Mongolia, India, Nepal and Bhutan. The students are either refugees from Tibet or do not have the opportunity for higher education in their home country.

Activities

Creating Hope International is working with the Bon to make primary through post-secondary education possible for the community's children and youths. This project will help 50 children and youth live at a dormitory and attend school for 1 year.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £9,458
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £1,741
Total Funding Goal: £11,199

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Education will improve the opportunities of these young people and the standard of living for the entire community. Some Tibetan students who have benefited from past scholarship programs have returned to Dolanji as leaders and health workers.

Project Message

One Tibetan refugee girl completed primary school, went to college, and studied nursing at a Mission Hospital in India. In 2004, she returned to Dolanji to work in the Bon health clinic.
- Geshe Lhasay Tenzin, accountant, Yungdrung Bon Monastic Centre

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Toc Dunlap,
Executive Director
Creating Hope International
P. O. Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
313-278-5806
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Project Sponsor

Creating Hope International

Organisation

Creating Hope International (CHI)
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
http://www.creatinghope.org

Learn more about Creating Hope International (CHI) and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Children.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 06, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 01, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

More Room and a New Class at School

By Toc Dunlap - Executive Director, December 06, 2011 08:56 PM

In November, I visited both the boys’ and the girls’ hostels at Menri Monastery in Dholanji. There are now 204 boys and 45 girls in the hostels. As the number of children has increased, the hostels have grown in size. The boys’ hostel now has a new wing for storage of clothes, bedding, and food and also has three extra rooms for art and extracurricular classes, as well as office space for the monks who are looking after the students. The play area, which needed to be reconstructed after heavy rains caused part of the play area to slide down the hill, is now under use by the boys and a basketball court has been added.

In the hostel for girls, rooms are now completed and a railing has been added to the staircase for safety reasons. Anticipating even more students, a new addition for rooms is under construction.

The school for the children now has an 11^th grade class which means that students can now complete the 11^th grade without having to go to another city and pay tuition. There are presently 30 students in the 11^th grade class.

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