Gaden Relief Projects
Helping to preserve Tibetan culture in India, Mongolia and Tibet
India

Zangskar Project Reports

Gaden Relief has been funding nunneries in Zangskar since 1991, with the assistance of Professor Kim Gutschow, Lecturer in the Departments of Anthropology and Religion at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Kim Gutschow visited Zangskar every year between 1989 and 2002, while she or Field Officer Lauren Galvin have managed projects there every year since 2006. So far Gaden Relief has disbursed more than $75,000 of financial and technological assistance in the form of appropriate technology, passive solar constructions, greenhouses, compost toilets, solar lanterns, smokeless stoves, and other means of supporting the nuns' ritual and scholarly activities.

Since 1991, sponsorships and individual donations from individuals who reside in Canada, United States, Europe, and Australia, have provided a lifeline to over 100 nuns in the region who live at the poverty line in this region. Please consider making a donation today using the link at the bottom of the page.

Selection of Recent Reports and Letters to Donors

2009 Project Report
2008 Needs Assessment
Project Report in April 2008 Newsletter (PDF)
2007 Needs Assessment
2004 Letter to Sponsors
2001 Letter to Sponsors
2000 Letter to Sponsors
1999 Letter to Sponsors

All Zangskar Project photos on this site are by Kim Gutschow, Zangskar Project Coordinator.
© Kim Gutschow. All rights reserved.

 
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