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Educating Tibetan Refugee Children and Youth

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Educating Tibetan Refugee Children and Youth

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Summary

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

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$27 - Provides 3 nutritious meals to 126 orphans and poor Tibetan refugee students.
$36 - Provides room and board at school for one Tibetan refugee for one month.
$50 - Provides books and school supplies to 10 students for one year.

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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. 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: $7,802
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $14,197
Total Funding Goal: $22,000

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

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

Creating Hope International

Organization

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 November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 2004

Latest Update from the Field

Update about Tibetan Bon Children

By Alison Hendry - Administrative Assistant, February 26, 2009 04:35 PM

As of February 2009, there were 212 Bon poor and orphan children attending the Tibetan School in the Tibetan Bon settlement in Dolanji, India and living in two hostels in the small village. 33 are girls and 179 are boys. Almost all of the students are from poor rural areas in Nepal where there are no schools so they attend the school in Dolanji, India.

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