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What

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Tibetan women and infants are at high risk for birth-related deaths. Because of lack of access to health care, finances, language barriers & health care infrastructure, the majority of births take place in cold environments without access to electricity or running water and often at high altitude. In some rural areas, an estimated 95% of Tibetan women give birth at home. In addition, vehicles are rarely available, roads often treacherous or impassible, language & cultural barriers alienating.

Activities

Tibetan mothers and children will have access to pre-natal care; labor & delivery support; postnatal care ; community midwife & health educator training; family health education; essential Tibetan & Western medicines; kits for safe home births.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $10,626
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $59,373
Total Funding Goal: $70,000

Additional Documentation

Resources

Why

Potential Long Term Impact

The Birth Center has the potential to be the cornerstone of a healthy Tibetan community. It can save lives of rural Tibetan women and babies and decrease the risk of disability caused by unsafe and unassisted delivery and lack of health education.

Project Message

Healthy and educated children are essential for having a better future, and healthy mothers are significant for bearing and nurturing the children. Tibetan Healing Fund works to achieve this dream.
- Dr. Kunchok Gyaltsen, President and Founder, Tibetan Healing Fund

Who

Contact Marge Mansfield, Board Member Tibetan Healing Fund 819 North 49th Street #105 Seattle, Washington 98103 United States 206-624-7966 Email: Project Sponsor GlobalGiving

Organization Tibetan Healing Fund 819 North 49th Street #105 Seattle, WA 98103 United States 206.624.7966 http://www.TibetanHealingFund.org Learn more about Tibetan Healing Fund and the project team.

Where

Country

This project is located in China and can also be found under Health.

For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.

When

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 05, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 08, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

2008 Annual Appeal

By Tibetan Healing Fund - Tibetan Healing Fund Board Members, February 05, 2009 11:03 AM

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