Essential Oils to Improve Tibetans' Health
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Summary
Provide seed funding for an herb garden and essential oils that are used topically to treat disease and infection within a refugee clinic in India for 380 families and over 600 Tibetan children.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The Bon are a minority Tibetan ethnic group that fled to India when the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1959. They established a community in Dolanji, India on donated land. Today, 80 Bon families, 200-300 Indian families, and several hundred orphaned children live in Dolanji, India and rely on the clinic at the Yung Drung Bon Monastic Center for free health care. Survival is difficult in this remote area and these poor families have limited access to other health care facilities.
Activities
Essential oils have proven to be an effective complement to traditional Tibetan and western medical practices to successfully treat disease. Essential oils and bottles are needed to re-stock supplies. Seed funding is needed for an herb garden.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $300
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,000
Total Funding Goal: $3,300
Additional Documentation
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
The oils will be used to treat diseases of people in Dolanji. Clinic staff hopes to begin growing herbs and explore making these oils on site and selling them for income to support the clinic and this Tibetan community in exile.
Project Message
This project makes sure that the clinic will get the maximum medicinal use out of these donated oils, meeting the health needs of hundreds of children, men, and women.
- Toc Dunlap, Executive Director, Creating Hope International
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 13, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 21, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Snapshot (2008) of the Tibetan Health Project
By Alison Hendry - Administrative Assistant, August 13, 2008 05:33 PM
The essential oils health practitioner in Dolanji continues to use essential oils on Tibetan refugee patients that request it. The oils are particularly effective on wounds, sprains and muscle ailments. Because he now has so many oils, carpenters in the refugee community recently made a special cabinet to hold the essential oils. Having acquired some additional land, the monastery in the Tibetan community is planning on planting some plants in 2009 that can be used to make essential oils. The monastery also plans to plant plants to be used in Tibetan healing generally.
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