Creating Hope International (CHI)

Creating Hope International is presently helping to support the education of 461 Bon boys and girls in three centers in Dolanji, India. The centers house the children and provide food and clothing with support from donors around the world. The students attend classes at the Tibetan School for the Bon. There are now 22 Bon girls from Nepal who are attending the school along with 439 other boys and girls.

When I visited in December 2006 and April 2007, the children looked healthy and, as always, happy. The principal of the school reported that all were progressing well. What is quite amazing is to see the support that the children give to each other and the love and support that they receive from the monks and nuns who look after them at the monastery and nunnery.

The essential oils health practitioner in Dolanji continues to use essential oils with over 40 Tibetan refugee patients each month. He has expanded into other alternative areas and will report on those the next time that there is a visit. Deliveries of essential oils and bottles that were in short supply were made in December 2006 and April 2007. Oils included Lavender, Lemongrass, SARA, Trauma Life, Frankincense and Spikenard. In addition, because of the expansion of the program, funds were given to build a specially designed cabinet to keep the oils in.

Creating Hope International is presently helping to support the education of 415 Bon boys and girls from Northern Nepal in three centers in Dolanji, India. The centers house the children and provide food and clothing with support from donors around the world. The students attend classes at the Tibetan School for the Bon. There are now 22 Bon girls from Nepal who are attending the school along with 393 other boys and girls from northern Nepal in the other two centers. Coming from very poor families in the high mountains between Nepal and Tibet, these children had no access to schools where they lived. Because of this, their families sent them to Dolanji, India to study at the Tibetan School there.

When I visited in December 2006 and April 2007, the children looked healthy and, as always, happy. The principal of the school reported that all were progressing well. They have had to learn Tibetan, English and Hindi. What is quite amazing is to see the support that the children give to each other and the love and support that they receive from the monks and nuns who look after them at the monastery and nunnery.