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Health Education Among the Ultra-poor

The Valley of Mystery

It is one of life's ironies that a place of such natural beauty, with such a strong traditional culture, is such a dangerous place to have a baby, to be born or to grow up. Dangerous in the sense of challenges to health. A pregnant woman has a 1/15 chance of dying in birth. A new-born, 1 in 4 of dying before the age of 2.

The Jherekhe School Yard

There are no basketball courts, no soccer pitches and the schools have mainly dirt floors.

Jherekhe School

The place of the ultra-poor is a sad and beautiful world. No one is more generous than the people who have so little. Jinpa, generosity in Tibetan, is the core value of their culture. No human is more cheerful than a child and no child is more cheerful than a Tibetan child. They are taught from very early on that it is good to be who they are. Our work aims to bring them back from the edge of cultural dispossession through health promotion.

Modi School Interior

Lee Weingrad writes: from the sanctity of our office in Beijing, I have no words to express my shock at the condition of the Modi School. Here are children sitting in the dirt on tree stumps. With your assistance we are going to put in a new floor and replace those stumps with chairs and desks.

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