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Tibetan Healing Fund

Seattle, Washington

Cause Description:
Tibetan Healing Fund supports primary healthcare and basic education for rural Tibetan children and their families in Qinghai Province P.R. China. Tibetan Healing Fund improves health and education by acting as a catalyst for community-based training, education and development initiatives. Projects Include: •Children's Fund: Supplying the necessary financial means for rural primary school children to attend school. •Tibetan Education: Supporting bilingual and bicultural education. •Teacher Training: Creating a much needed opportunity to study teaching methodology, lesson planning and the principles of child-centered education. •School Improvement Projects: Proving a warm, dry and safe learning environment for rural Tibetan children and their teachers. •Community Midwife Training: Training local women in prenatal, deliver and postpartum care. •Women's Health Materials Development and Distribution: Producing and distributing culturally and linguistically appropriate health education materials for rural women. •Tibetan System of Midwifery Care: Creating a new system of midwifery care that successfully combines aspects of Tibetan medicine and culture with Western interventions. •Tibetan Women’s Health Center: Tibetan Healing Fund is seeking funding to build the first and only birthing center specifically for ethnic-Tibetans. This facility will serve as a birthing center for the areas 250,000 ethnic-Tibetans as well as a training facility for rural health workers and health educators.

Type: Human/ Social Services
Listed on iGive since: October 2005
iGive members supporting: 3

Website: www.tibetanhealingfund.org

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