The Rigdzin Foundation – a volunteer organization - is already more than 10 years involved in setting up educational projects in the East of Tibet. For the village of Junyong, in the region Sershul, it now seeks the funds to pay for school desks for the 360 students of the elementary school, so they no longer need to sit on the ground.
Sershul is the highest, coldest, poorest, least developed and most remote region of the whole of China. In an area as large as the Netherlands there live but 65000 inhabitants, who traditionally travelled with their herds across the vast fields. Government measures increasingly forced them to move to cities and sell their cattle. Because they have no education and do not speak the Chinese language, they lose their livelihoods and have difficulties in surviving. 85% of them is illiterate and only speaks Tibetan. The average annual salary is € 500.
The school in Junyong is the only bilingual Chinese – Tibetan school in the region. There is no public support for private schools such as this project and the government does hardly do anything for the Tibetan people. The local population itself asked for help with this project. They provide for the the costs of operating the school, but are unable to finance the school desks, which is why we seek assistance to help them.
180 school desks cost € 13500 - € 75 each. (Reason of the relatively high costs is that the materials are expensive because it is a very remote area.)
Sershul is the highest, coldest, poorest, least developed and most remote region of the whole of China. In an area as large as the Netherlands there live but 65000 inhabitants, who traditionally travelled with their herds across the vast fields. Government measures increasingly forced them to move to cities and sell their cattle. Because they have no education and do not speak the Chinese language, they lose their livelihoods and have difficulties in surviving. 85% of them is illiterate and only speaks Tibetan. The average annual salary is € 500.
The school in Junyong is the only bilingual Chinese – Tibetan school in the region. There is no public support for private schools such as this project and the government does hardly do anything for the Tibetan people. The local population itself asked for help with this project. They provide for the the costs of operating the school, but are unable to finance the school desks, which is why we seek assistance to help them.
180 school desks cost € 13500 - € 75 each. (Reason of the relatively high costs is that the materials are expensive because it is a very remote area.)
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