Can you help? Tibet-Cina

The living conditions in the villages of Central Tibet, at an altitude of approximately 4000 meters, are very difficult. The houses are simply constructed from mud bricks and have few windows to stop the cold from entering; there is no water, no electricity, no heating and basic necessities such as mattresses and covers are missing.
The main means of livelihood is subsistence farming on the mountainous terrain, but the harvests from this dry and hard earth are often not enough to last the family more than 6 or 7 months. This means that people have no excess produce to sell and so there is not even the smallest amount of money incoming to buy clothes for the children, or medicine when they are sick or even to buy scholastic materials.
The children have to pass the harsh Tibetan winters dressed in rags, with whatever they can find on their feet and are often unable to attend the local schools.
Thanks to the donations collected by the Association, help reaches all the children of the villages and money, clothes, winter jackets, shoes, school materials, sacks of rice, flour and seeds are distributed to their families. The arrival of this help is always met with great joy and festivities in the villages.
 

All these children live in villages in Central Tibet and are waiting to receive help: if you would like to help one or more of them please contact us (Procedure to open a Long Distance Adoption) as soon as possible.

Pasang Tsering is a little boy who is now one year old; in the photo he is in the arms of his mother. They live in the very poor village of Singma and the father is called Dorzin.

From the left: Pasang is about twelve years old, and if helped he will be able to continue attending school, in the only school of the region that teaches until the twelfth class; with him in the photo are his grandfather, his sister Lakpa Puti age nine – who until now, thanks to the incredible efforts made by her parents, attends school; his little sister Yanla who is six, and would like to start school this year and the youngest brother - five year old Tashi Wanla. Their father is called Chimey, and they live in the village of Ten.

Nima Tondup is seven years old, and it is time for him to start attending the village school, which was recently built with funds collected by the Association, but his family are very poor and they probably won’t be able to send him to school without help. His father is called Tenzin and they live in Nepu Village.

These two children are called Tsering, age nine, and Tsamchoe who is seven. Tsering already has a sponsor and attends school, whilst Tsamchoe hopes to be able to start school next year; their father is called Pempa Tsering. The parents of these children work very hard to farm their small piece of land, they do everything manually regardless of the hardness of the soil. They live in the village of Ten.

From the left, Pasang Tashi is the eldest child at nine years old; at his side are his brother Puntsok Dorje age eight, and his sister Lakpa Puti age six. These three children need help to attend school – without help they will be unable to do so because for their parents it is already difficult to give them enough food to eat.
In front on them are the two youngest children, Nima Pentok (the girl wearing a brown jacket) age five and Dawa Tashi, the youngest boy, who is age two. Their father is called Dorje and they live in Chak Village.

Donkar, on the right, is a three years old girl and her brother Pasang Tsering is five; the mother of these children is called Tsamchoe. They live in Ten Village and have an urgent need of help to provide them with basic necessities.

This baby girl is called Tsering Dolkar and she is in the arms of her mother; the father is called Chunzy and they live in the village of Dakshu.

From the left, in this photo are Puti, who is a girl of around four years (the ages are always approximate because there is no system of registration in these villages), and her younger brother Jampa Tashi who is just two. In the photo they are together with their father. They live in the village of Dhonnang.

This family (from the left) is composed of Tenzin Buti, an eight years old girl, her brothers Tenzin Tashi age seven and Nima Tondup age five, and the latest arrival is baby Rinchen Ngdoup who is just a few months old. The baby is in the arms of their father - Puntsok Wanla. They live in Dhonnang Village. The two elder children haven’t yet been able to go to school, and the hope of this family is that they will have the opportunity to do so as soon as possible.

The beautiful boy on the right of the photo is called Losang Tsering, he is around seven years old, just the right age to start school; beside their mother is the younger brother Sonam Wanla who is six. The name of this family is Deshar, and they live in Singma Village.

Topkye is a one year old boy and he is in the arms of his mother. His father is called Tashi and the family live in the village of Sagoe Gangchen.

This seven years old girl is called Dolma; she needs help to be able to start attending the small school in a nearby village that teaches until class III. Her father is called Wanla and they live in the village of Sagoe Gangchen.

This small girl is called Pempa Donla and she is around three years old. In the photo Pempa is in the arms of her grandmother who takes care of her when her parents work on their small piece of land. Her father is called Pentok and they live in Singma Village.

This baby girl in the arms of her mother is called Kelsang Choedron and is about three months old in this picture; her sister is called Pasang Puti and is three years old. The father of these two sisters is called Pela and they live in Ten Village.

These two brothers are called Puntsok Tsering, who is three years old and on the left in the photo, and Lakpa Tondup who is five. This family is also very poor and need help to be able to satisfy their basic necessities. The father of these two children is called Tashi Tondup and they live in the village of Singma.
 

These two children live in Sagoe Village; the eldest one, on the left, is called Tashi and is a five years old boy. His younger sister is called Dechen Choedon and she is three years old. Their father is called Puntsok.

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