Funds Disbursed
September, 2008
$1000 to Vance Walstra of Portland, OR, an Omprakash Volunteer Grant recipient, to enable him to volunteer at Helping Hands in Cusco, Peru, during spring 2009.
$3000 to pay for three months’ salary for the three teachers and headmaster at the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls.
June-July-August, 2008
$16,140 to cover all costs of the Omprakash Book Distribution Project in India, during which over 200,000 recycled children’s books were distributed free of cost to schools and libraries throughout the country. Please click the link for a full breakdown of project expenses, as well as photos and additional details.
$500 to support the Traveling Librarian by helping her buy and deliver books for two school libraries in north India.
July, 2008
$15,046 to enable Project Why to continue paying classroom rent, teacher salaries, and other operating costs as resources and energy begin shifting towards establishing Planet Why, an eco-friendly guesthouse staffed and maintained by students and graduates of Project Why schools. The income generated by this guesthouse will cover all operating costs of Project Why, thus enabling the project to continue offering education and employment to some of Delhi’s neediest. We are proud to continue supporting Project Why as it moves towards total sustainability without sacrificing its commitment to environmental stewardship. Roughly one-third of this donation was made possible by Microsoft, Inc., as part of its matching-grant program. Learn more about the Project Why budget>>
$250 to provide additional support to Ravi Aluganti’s mobile library in Andhra Pradesh, India– one of our partners in the Book Distribution Project. These funds were used to buy 40 metal trunks that can be used for book storage at the 20 government schools included in Ravi’s mobile library program.
$312 to provide additional support to the Project Why Library, another beneficiary of our Book Distribution Project. These funds were used to buy metal shelves and trunks to hold books at each of Project Why’s seven satellite tutoring centers.
June, 2008
$25,000 to help the Louisiana-Himalaya Association (Lha) buy a new headquarters building in Dharamsala. This new building contains a library that will be open to the entire community, and also gives LHA more space to conduct its language and computer classes. What’s even better is that this new building will also make LHA entirely self-sufficient and sustainable for years to come: the building will hold several locally-owned businesses, and the income from these businesses will cover all of LHA’s yearly expenses.
$750 to help Sarah Doyle pay for travel and living expenses while volunteering in summer 2008 at Children Better Way in Liberia.
$1000 to Sarah Zellweger, recipient of an Omprakash Volunteer Grant, to help her pay travel and living expenses while volunteering in autumn 2008 at Pragya School in Nepal.
May, 2008
$300 to buy art supplies for Helping Hands school in Cusco, Peru.
$800 to Neary Khmer to enable the organization to continue its work in Kampong Khleang stilt village, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
$2000 to Sarah Adamak, recipient of an Omprakash Volunteer Grant, to help pay her travel and living expenses while volunteering in autumn 2008 at DEPDC in Thailand.
April, 2008
$40 to buy books for Helping Hands school in Cusco, Peru. Click here to learn more about Helping Hands and to see photos of the purchased books.
March, 2008
$200 to Xom Dua (Vietnam) to enable
30 children to receive daily lunch for an entire month and to pay two teachers’ salaries at the Nha Trang school.
February, 2008
$1,000 to Neary Khmer for the purchase and distribution of 90 home water filters to poor villagers in Khnong Phnom Commune, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
January, 2008
$2,500 towards paying annual salaries for the three teachers and one headmaster at the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls in the Golok region of Tibet (Qinghai Province, China).
December, 2007
$900 (IRS 35,000) to pay for electrification of the Domkhar learning center in Domkhar Dho, Sham, Ladakh (north India). The Domkhar learning center is supported by Health-Inc. (www.health-inc.org) and educates 120 students from pre-primary to Grade 12. It is one of the locations where Health-Inc. is implementing its innovative Love2Read program, featuring curricular materials designed for cultural relevance and printed in the Ladakhi language.
$2,134 (IRS 82,500) to pay a Ladakhi publisher to print books designed by Health-Inc. to be distributed to Ladakhi schools involved in its Love2Read program. Learn more about the partnership between Health-Inc. and Omprakash>>
November, 2007
$539 to begin supporting a school-lunches program in the impoverished area of Lubangwe, Zimbabwe. Working with a representative from the A&K Global Foundation (http://www.akglobalfoundation.org), we hope to provide families with staple food supplies and enable the village school to guarantee a nutritious meal for every child every day. Learn more about this project>>
$6,000 to support the new Women’s Center at Project Why (www.projectwhy.org) in New Delhi, India. This money will cover all operating costs for 6 months. Learn more about our involvement with Project Why>>
$2,000 to enable Neary Khmer, a health-education NGO in Cambodia, to purchase 200 water filters and distribute them in the village of Kok Daung. Learn more about Neary Khmer>>
October, 2007
$8,804.70 to Project Why (www.projectwhy.org) to cover all expenses for one year at two schools in the slums of Delhi, India. A total of 177 students attend these two schools. Please note: due to banking fees, the sum $8,804.70 is slightly higher than the actual operating costs of the two schools.
$10,000 to the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust to help pay for a new after-school center in the Thandoluntu area in the township of Guguletu, near Cape Town, South Africa. The center’s operating costs, estimated to be about $25,000, annually, include co-ordinator and teacher salaries, learning materials, and food and transport for students. Learn more about our involvement with the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust>>
June, 2007
$3160 to purchase one year’s worth of school materials (stationery and teaching reference books) for the 445 students at RAWA’s nine orphanages in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
$1850 to purchase one year’s worth of school materials (stationery, textbooks, and teaching reference books) for the 58 students at a RAWA school for Afghan refugees located in Peshawar, Pakistan.
To learn more about these donations, visit www.rawa.org/orphanages.htm or read about our Partnership with RAWA>>
May, 2007
$6435 to support construction of a library at the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls,located in the Golok region of Qinghai Province in China (Tibet). Established in 2006, the Golok Sengcham Drukmo Home for Girls is a privately-funded branch of the local government school, and aims to give special attention and support to underprivileged girls. The library that we are supporting (construction began on June 7, 2007) will be open to all students at the government school, and to other community members as well. To learn more about this project, visit www.trahelpsgirls.blogspot.com.
$500 to support the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)– an organization that promotes women’s literacy and empowerment in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sixty-five dollars is enough to hire one teacher for a month. Check out www.rawa.org and www.afghanwomensmission.org
September, 2006
$5000 to construct new classroom building at a small primary school near Aba, Tibet (Sichuan Province, China).
August, 2006
$6000 to establish Vocational Carpentry Class at a vocational secondary school near Lhasa, Tibet.
These funds paid for 39 tools and six-month salary for two teachers. During its first year, the class was taken by 58 students. The classroom is a functioning workshop that gives its students a marketable skill, provides a service to the local agrarian community, and also raises money that the school can use to pay scholarships for poor students.
June, 2006
$222 to pay embassy fees for Tibetan monk in Kathmandu.
$300 to subsidize facial surgery for Indian man in Dharamsala.
July, 2005
$292 to ship eighty pounds of donated paperback books to the LHA library in Dharamsala.
June, 2005
$1038 to pay eye surgery for Tibetan monk who otherwise would have lost his vision.
$400 to buy needed mattresses for the Mother Teresa Home for the Dying and Destitute in Delhi.
$507 to pay the year’s rent for the LHA medical-treatment room in Dharamsala.
February-April, 2005
$337 to help three different Tibetan refugees cover health and immigration fees.
$442 to pay one-year college tuition for Indian student.
$400 to buy a water-cooler and purifier for the Mother Teresa Home for the Dying and Destitute in Delhi.