School Books are Needed: Search for Charities or Sponsors
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Search for Charities or Sponsors for these specific School Books (below) to be used by students in the classrooms.
- New Interchange. English for International Communication. Jack C.Richards with Jonathan Hull and Susan Proctor. Student book, workbook and teachers’ edition
- Video Activity Book
- Video Teacher's Guide
- Video CD
- CD-ROM
- Small dictionary
- Also DVD like Family Album U.S.A

The Sabre Foundation makes book donations - It can send a detailed inventory list to partners to select books from the inventory, but we'd have to get in contact with the organization to see if these titles are on the list. Website: http://www.sabre.org/programs/books/index.php
I'll keep looking for other possibilities.
The China Tomorrow Education Foundation is also a possibility.
http://www.chinatomorrow.org/howwework.asp
They accept applications from all provinces in China. In past projects, they have donated book and computers to schools, printers, desks and chairs, etc. Look over their projects page - they have lists of past projects they've done. http://www.chinatomorrow.org/OurProjects_psp.asp
They are especially interested in schools in rural areas.
I have also sent CTEF (China Tomorrow Education Foundation) a request note to consider our Tsedang community school to be in their list. Let's see what they have to come back with.
Thanks,
Yanto
GOOD NEWS....CTEF responded with very positive note. CTEF is willing to take this project into their consideration and will discuss internally within their organization.
Tashi, I have forwarded to your personal email a note from CTEF with some follow up questions. Please help to provide your feedback on their questions and let's keep the momentum here...let's get back to me with your input so I can post the response back to them.
Thanks,
Yanto
Dear Yanto.
Thanks very much.
I will input them as soon as possible.
If you have time to meet me by here, please le me know.
And i will email to you soon.
Thanks
Tashi.
Dear Yanto.
I sent to you feedback by your email, please check them,
If you have time, if you have question please let me know.
Thank
Tashi
Tashi, Stacey and all....
my sincere apologies as I have not been able to effectively participate in this forum for near to a couple years now. I am not sure if you are still active in working on this one, as I see this forum last update was more than a year ago. If you get this message and if you want to restart this activity, let's catch up then.
Yanto
Dear Yanto.
How are you ?
Very sorry. I haven't seen your message untill today. It was few months ago, sorry for long time reply for your message.
Yes , we are still active with village , and we need things as same as before.
I really wish , please help us to restart this activity.
Please let me know by the email or here.
My email address is tashiyangz@yahoo.com or tagyang@hotmail.com
I hope see you again.
With best regards,
Tashi
Tashi
Hi Tashi and all fellow neighbors,
I am new to Nabuur. I have been browsing around the site and have decided to lend some thoughts and time to help with this village. I noticed in the website Yale Club of Beijing does provide books and English-literate materials to the rural schools in China. I checked further into their programs this year and could not find Lasha among the other regions in China targeted for activities this year. I presume Tsedang is within the Lasha administrative divisions of Tibet Autonomous Region, please correct me if I am wrong.
Here is the website: http://www.yaleclubbeijing.org/
Please let me know if Tashi would like to establish interaction with Yale Club of Beijing to introduce this project, or I could probably help with writing up an intro and request to the club. Please note, however, I noticed the club's budget guideline is RMB 1500 for each school.
To understand further about this project, I would like Tashi if you could probably elaborate more on the followings:
1. The target community of this school in terms of age (children, teenager, young adults, or adults)
2. The area or vicinity where the school is currently located with some info on its facility, like the availability of electricity, or even an Internet connection.
3. I noticed you mentioned 25 students in the your project intro, what is the number now? An increased number of students across a period of time could be one of our points when elaborating on the acceptance level to this project by local community.
4. How are the class conducted? Per skill set, how many hours per day, time-tables you could share, current method of teaching and the teachers.
I guess that's it for now for a start.
Good luck to all of us.
Tashi, please advise when you have chance to read this post. thanks!
Dear Yanto.
I have read what you siad me, if you have time please chat with my skype or my email, i would like sent you answer, but i was busy with the moment.
My skype Tashiyangzoom, and my email tashiyangzoom@yahoo.co.uk.
Thank you very much.
Hi Yanto,
I also just spoke with Tashi by Skype, and here is what I can draw from our conversation to begin answering your questions:
1. Students range from ages 7-17
2. The school in Tsedang, Tibet is 3-room building, with 2 classrooms and one office. It does have internet and electricity. She has also taught some classes in her hometown, Neymo, Tibet. She taught in Neymo for 22 days during a vacation, but the students parents asked her to come and teach 20 more days.
3. Numbers of students have indeed been increasing over time. At the time she listed on Nabuur, it was 25 students. Now it is about 80 students total in the two towns.
4. Classes: Each class is two and a half hours when she teaches during vacations. She will do a seven-hour period with three separate classes at different experience levels. Outside of holidays, she conducts classes on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday during the day. Currently she uses the book New Interchange: English for International Communication, but she only has one copy and needs more. In her own village, she is the only teacher. There have been a total of two teachers at the school in Tibet. A Tibetan English teacher who teaches at a government school has helped her our during vacation times, and she gave him a salary for one month.
Tashi and Stacie,
thanks so much for the information. it gives me adequate information as a start to engage the Yale Club Beijing. I will keep you all posted on the progress.
Thanks,
Yanto
Hi Tashi and Stacie,
I have reached out to the Yale Club of Beijing, and am waiting for their response. At the same time, I am also reaching out to fellow members in one of the forums I am a member of. If in the event I need to ship the books myself to your location, please advise what is the normal method of shipment acceptable in Tibet. To be honest, I have never been involved in any shipment of goods to Tibet, so it could be challenging, but I am ready to try. I suggest a sea-shipment rather than air-shipment, due to the size and weight of the books, which could be enormous at times.
Waiting for your response and feedback.
Thanks,
Yanto
Hello Tashi!
I am new in your village, but not new at Nabuur. Give me an update to see where you are at with your project and how I can help.
Thank you!
Veka