Report on school students clothing supply.

 

Background

Tsultrim is a native Tibetan doctor invoving in development project proposed 100 friends in 2007 that there is a great need of providing clothings to students from poor families at village level schools in Tibetan areas of western China, at the same time Tsultrim presented photos of 26 school kids to 100 friends. The photos were taken by locals with consulting from the school teachers, village leaders, but there is lack of name record from them. So in Nov 2008 as soon as there was a hope for a small fund from 100friends, Tsultrim with local reliable Lhama, village leaders and school teachers re-selected 32 kids from poor families in Karnang primary school, and conducted the clothing purchasing, transporting and supplying of the project.

 

Implementation Steps

1.As soon as fund arrived in bank by Nov 3, Tsultrim exchanged it into Chinese Yuan in order to avoid further dropping of exchange rate.

2.Started selection of kids at village level and recorded the height of each kids.This took bit a long time since there was a big snow fall in that area and it needed to wait for some village leaders for involvement.

3.As soon as we got the record started purchasing of clothing in the capital (provincial level you get better quality clothing).

4.The 32 sets of [winter warm jacket and warm trousers(inside is camel wool)]clothing being transported to the capital of the prefecture (870KM distance).

 

5.The transporting agency couldn't reach the village on time since some time there is no cell phone signal, but after 4 days the Lhama went to the prefecture capital to get the clothings transported to the village level.(140KM both ways)

6.The next day, clothings distributed to each kids. The size were excellent and the kids were very happy.

7.Lhama returned to the prefecture capital for sending the photos from a internet service center to Tsultrim.

8.Reporting.

 

 

Budget

Tsultrim received $500 US$ from 100 freinds, it was 3,331RMB after exchanged.

 

32 sets of clothing cost 2,880RMB (90RMB x32sets) plus 480 for transportation to the village, and packing. In total it was about 3,360RMB(the extra 29 was paid by the Lhama).

 

Remarks:

Requesting people for sending photos from their printing shop, packing and transportation with private trucks it is hard to colect receipt so all are included in one receipt from the shop, which see here 3,360RMB.

 

Lessons learnt

1.With very small money can help lots of people in remote areas of China.

2.This year there was no enough money for good pair of shows for these kids but hope next year's winter they will have.