Tibetan Natural Birth and Health Training Center
Prenatal care in Tibet
Summary
The center will provide safe, affordable, linguistically & culturally appropriate health services & health education and will serve as a training facility for community midwives & health educators.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Tibetan women and infants are at high risk for birth-related deaths. Because of lack of access to health care, finances, language barriers & health care infrastructure, the majority of births take place in cold environments without access to electricity or running water and often at high altitude. In some rural areas, an estimated 95% of Tibetan women give birth at home. In addition, vehicles are rarely available, roads often treacherous or impassible, language & cultural barriers alienating.
Activities
Tibetan mothers and children will have access to pre-natal care; labor & delivery support; postnatal care ; community midwife & health educator training; family health education; essential Tibetan & Western medicines; kits for safe home births.
Funding Information
This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.TibetanHealingFund.org)
- Project’s Homepage (http://www.TibetanHealingFund.org)
- Tibetan Natural Birth & Health Training Center (http://www.tibetanhealingfund.org/ourWork_birthCtr.php)
- Community Health Assessment (http://www.tibetanhealingfund.org/ourWork_CommunityHealthAssessment.php)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The Birth Center has the potential to be the cornerstone of a healthy Tibetan community. It can save lives of rural Tibetan women and babies and decrease the risk of disability caused by unsafe and unassisted delivery and lack of health education.
Project Message
Healthy and educated children are essential for having a better future, and healthy mothers are significant for bearing and nurturing the children. Tibetan Healing Fund works to achieve this dream.
- Dr. Kunchok Gyaltsen, President and Founder, Tibetan Healing Fund
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Marge Mansfield
Board Member
Tibetan Healing Fund
819 North 49th Street #105
Seattle, Washington 98103
United States
206-624-7966
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Tibetan Healing Fund
819 North 49th Street #105
Seattle,
WA
98103
United States
206.624.7966
http://www.TibetanHealingFund.org
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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 8, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
2008 Annual Appeal
By Tibetan Healing Fund - Tibetan Healing Fund Board Members, February 05, 2009 11:03 AM
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