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Second-Hand Clothing for Impoverished Villagers
Project Managers : Tsomo (Faith), Gawangjyid (Maybelle), and Rinchentso (Ava)
Distribute second Hand clothing to impoverished villagers across the Tibetan Plateau. Improve the quality of life for the poorest of the poor.
Cindy Tan and friends donated the clothing for this project
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What? Second-Hand clothing distribution
Who? Impoverished villagers of Xiamei Village, Yehe Vallige, Xunwa village Qinghai Province.
Photos of Project Implementation:
Xiamei Village
Her name is Domaji. She is 65. She has one son and now she lives with her son and daughter-in-law, and their two children. All of them are farmers, and they only have 15 mu of fields. Their income is 1,000RMB per year. If Domaji's son doesn't go out to do some small work, they do not have any cash income. They can only grow enough wheat, barley, beats, and potatoes in their fields for their own daily supply. Actually they don't have any money.
This is their house, all made of clay. (Outside)
(Inside)
Her name is Wa gu. She is 74. She lives with her youngest son; the man on her right is her eldest son. He does not live with her. He lives with his daughter who is standing in the middle. His name is Nanjia. He is 46 years old. He is a farmer. His wife died many years ago. His daughter's name is Dare Zhoma, She is 12. Their family only has one small field, so Nan jia often goes to the county town to do some small jobs.
The man on the right is La hua. He is 40. He does not have any job, and he rarely comes back home. He is always spending time in the county town. Although his mother has a small amount of land, no one is working it. So their family only live on the money which the government gives them. They are very poor.
Their house gate (outside)
Their house (inside)
Wu gu, her son Nan jia, and Nan jia's daughter, Dare Zhoma
Yehe Village
The people of Yehe village gather together and hold the clothing they received.
Dorji Dorma is 67 years old. Her husband died after long illness when she was 38. After her husband's death, her only son and daughter-in-law started to disrespect her. The daughter-in-law didn't talk to Dorji Dorma and even sometimes scolded her and didn't give food to her. The villagers discovered this terrible treatment and some elder villagers went to their house and tried to persuade Dorji Dorma's son and daughter-in-law to respect her and get along well with her. During the discussion, the son and daughter in law did not say anything. The next morning they left and never returned. Dorji Dorma cannot work the land by herself, so during the last 29 years, she hasn't had enough food to eat, or any warm or nice clothes to wear. Luckily some kind-hearted villagers gave food and clothes to her. When she got her second hand clothes, she said, “I'm very glad to receive these clothes. Now I have clothes to wear until my death, they won't wear out before then. Thank you very much to the owner of these clothes and to all the people who are involved in doing these kind things for people like me.”
The second boy from the left is Sangchan Norbu; he is nine years old. When he was three months' old, his father beat his mother violently and kicked them out. He and his mother lived with his mother's family for one year. After that, his mother married another man and left him behind. He stayed in his aunt's family. His cousins are rude to him and look down on him, but he has to stay there because he doesn't have anywhere else to go. He doesn't get clothes to wear like the other children in that family. Sometimes he doesn't get food to eat, but he can't get food from the other families. If they realize that he begged for food from another family, they will definitely beat him. Hence these clothes solved one of his big problems.
Lhamo's mother died last year when the villagers were digging a ditch, and she was crushed under a big rock. Her father lived with a woman worker in the county town and left his two young daughters behind at home. Lhamo's elder sister is twelve years old. That twelve year old girl is supporting both her and her sister. They plant wheat with the help of other villagers. However, one of their big problems is clothing, because they can't earn enough money to buy clothes. Lhamo is delighted to receive these clothes.
Xunwa village
Lhamojia is woman whose husband died when she was thirty-five years old. She has four children: three boys and one girl. One of her sons and her daughter are students in Qinghai Normal University, one son is a waiter at Xunhua hotel, and one son stays with her. Because of the tuition of the two students, her family condition is not very good.
Lhalang Tsairang is a thirty-four year old man whose wife contracted a terrible disease. They need a lot of money to treat his wife's disease, but he cannot go out to work and earn money, because he needs to take care of his two children and do housework. So he has no money to buy warm clothes, or pay school tuition for his two sons.
Rinchen is a fifty-year-old man with only one son. Unfortunately his only son is handicapped and cannot walk. His wife refuses to go out and work, and refuses to work in their home. Rinchen is the only man who works at home instead of earning money outside. Therefore his family condition is not good
Daiji is thirty years old. She was kicked out of her home because when she was twenty-five years old she was raped by stranger and became pregnant as a result. All of her family members thought that the rape was her mistake. Sha was kicked out of her home and she gave birth to a baby boy by herself. Unfortunately after only one month her son was died. Now she lives alone.
Tsairang is a twelve-year-old boy. When he was ten, his father died from a disease. To try to cure his father, his mother sold all the cows and sheep, but after that his father died and his family was left with nothing. Tsairang has two sisters and one brother. Tsairang is the oldest child and needs to take care of his siblings and help his mother to do housework. Because of his family's poor conditions, he cannot go to school.
List of recipients:
Xiamei Village
Yehe Village
Xunwa Village
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