Project Report
| Mar 9, 2012
Winter Planning Underway for Short Summer Season
By Carol Hiltner | President, Altai Mir University
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Throat-singer counselors around the cookfire
Thank you for your continued support of the sacred Altai culture. Your contribution during the winter is especially valuable, because materials for the construction of the new Altai cultural revival center must be ready to go when spring comes to Altai. The nice weather doesn't last long!
A great start was made last summer, with construction of the perimeter fencing, outhouse, outdoor kitchen shelter, and two small traditional buildings for sleeping and storage. Even at that interim stage a month-long summer music camp for local village children was organized -- using as counselors the young throat-singers whose education we support in a different project.
Protection of the Altai culture is a win for the whole world. Please give generously!
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Dec 22, 2011
Altai Cultural Center Construction Progress Report
By Carol Hiltner | President, Altai Mir University
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The camp cookfire
Amazing progress was made last summer toward the development of the planned cultural revival center in the village of Tyungur in Altai. Local volunteers installed about 1000 feet of fencing (to keep the cows out and the young children in), dug and constructed an outhouse, and built an outdoor kitchen and sheltered dining area, as well as two traditional summer a’ils for sleeping.
All this was immediately used to host a month-long summer camp for children from nearby villages, teaching them traditional Altai arts and freeing their parents for their critically important herding and subsistence farming activities.
The vision is the construction of an incubation center to foster the revival of traditional “cottage industry,” which was suppressed during Communist times. Only the few elders still have the know-how. The funds to purchase the building materials were donated during the previous winter. Next summer’s construction on the site is dependent on further donations this winter. Please donate generously!
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Sep 15, 2011
Tyungur Cultural Center launches kids' camp
By Carol Hiltner | President, Altai Mir University
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Camp counselors gather around the cookfire
The new Altai Cultural Center in Tyungur, Altai Republic, (which this project supports) started the summer off with a huge contribution to the local community -- a pro bono kids' camp for local children.
The month-long camp specialized in teaching the children about Altai throat-singing, as the counselors were all professional musicians-in-training.
In the future, this camp will organize professional cooperatives in other culturally important activities, such as bee-keeping and animal husbandry.
Your contributions support the development of these cooperatives.
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