ACHIEVEMENTS
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2015 Beneficiary: A little boy’s heart wrenching story in Lhasa, Tibet
A Tibetan man protested on 10th March 2008 during the National Uprising Day against the CCP rule in Tibet. The next day the para-military army were coming to arrest him. He was proud of what he had done and did not run away.
His mother was informed that he had convicted a crime against PRC and accused him of being a separatist and part of Dalai Clique. The police officer told her to come alone at 5am on 16th March to advice her own son. She replied “I am old and I cannot come alone”. However, they said If you want to see your son, then you must come alone.
Next day when she went to police station at 5am, the police officers were waiting for her. They took her in a car to a remote area, outside of Lhasa. On arrival, she was given a few minutes to talk to her son and that this will be their last conversation.
She begged to the officer and said “I am old, please spare my only son’s life and execute me instead”. The officer replied “You don’t have much time left to talk”. She was crying tremendously and her son looked up to her and said “Mother, you should be proud of what I have done, I have stood up for freedom and justice for the Tibetan people”. That was his last words.
Within a few minutes, while the mother was still trying to understand what had happened, she heard gun shots and saw that her son was executed along with 6 other Tibetan youths. The police officers threatened her to not speak about what happened today, other wise she will face the same faith.
She is devastated and now is left to raise her grandson on her own. Since this incident 8 years ago they haven’t received any benefits from the local government.
We secretly came to know about this little boy’s heart wrenching story and we decided to support him.
2017 Beneficiary: We have helped the Nagajuna Boarding School to raised fund for their school (We were able to raised $3,580 Net which we hand it over to Mr. Gyaltsen Yeshi (School Principal)).
The school is founded by Mr Yeshi Gyaltsen from Pokhara Nepal. His mother expired when he was five and his father expired a few years after that. His father's friend sent him to India to Tibetan Home school and completed his year 10. He received higher education at Drepung Loseling Monastic University in South India. After he graduated he taught for eight years as a volunteer at Drepung Loseling Buddhist cultural school. In 1994 he joint Mount Kailash School in Pokhara, Nepal. In 1999 he made pilgrimage to Muktinath in Mustang. There he saw many poor people, he met with them and they told him that for a long time they did not have a good school for their own culture. Their children from the age of maybe nine years were working as shepherds. Their plight made him sad, he left the Mount Kailash School and decided that with the help of his wife, his friends and his own savings, he would set up a small school to provide education, shelter and clothing for these neglected children. On 4th September 2000 he opened the school with 7 poor children and 3 staff members. Currently, The school has 136 students, of which 6 students were sent to India for further studies.
Nagajuna Modern Boarding School was founded in a rented three story house with nine rooms, three bedrooms for the children, two for classes, one for staff, a kitchen, storeroom and a small office. The school teaches three languages, Nepali, Tibetan and English. Science, Social Studies and math are conducted in English. The monthly expenditure, by Western standards $ 2584 per month to cover food, salaries, house rent, clothing etc for 115 people seems incredible.
The head teacher Mr. Lama has a unique requirement process to populate the school. Each summer he walks for twenty days through the Himalaya Mountains around Mustang, visiting the villages. In consultation with the village chief, he takes needy orphans and poor children, and then walks back through the mountains, starting to teach the new recruits already about for instance the value of education.
The school s funded partly with money comes from sponsors, and partly with the money that comes from selling Tibetan jewelry in a shop run by his family. 75% of the earnings of the shop goes directly to the school.
Nagajuna Modern Boarding School was founded in a rented three story house with nine rooms, three bedrooms for the children, two for classes, one for staff, a kitchen, storeroom and a small office. The school teaches three languages, Nepali, Tibetan and English. Science, Social Studies and math are conducted in English. The monthly expenditure, by Western standards $ 2584 per month to cover food, salaries, house rent, clothing etc for 115 people seems incredible.
The head teacher Mr. Lama has a unique requirement process to populate the school. Each summer he walks for twenty days through the Himalaya Mountains around Mustang, visiting the villages. In consultation with the village chief, he takes needy orphans and poor children, and then walks back through the mountains, starting to teach the new recruits already about for instance the value of education.
The school s funded partly with money comes from sponsors, and partly with the money that comes from selling Tibetan jewelry in a shop run by his family. 75% of the earnings of the shop goes directly to the school.