Dolma, our Tibetan guide from our previous visit, continued to assist us in distributing LuminAID solar lights for those without any power. We left her with a large supply of lights and financial assistance for the meditation monks and nuns in the Drak Yerpa Cave Monastery. Needles to say, the lights brightened up their days since there's no electricity inside the caves. There are still 80 meditation caves on the hillside.
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​At an altitude of over 16,000 feet, Drak Yerpa Monastery is described as the "Life Tree" or spiritual axis of Lhasa. 

We were able to distribute $800 worth of much needed food certificates from the store in Kykotsmovi to our elderly friends on Hopi. A special thanks goes to Dinah Pongyesva who works with the Hopi Library/Mobile Book Mobile for distributing the gift certificates for us.

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Thank you for your support in bringing LuminAID solar lights and LifeStraw water filters to India. Because of security reasons we are not able to go into detail. Click here to contact us for more information.

​A special thank you to LuminAID. We provided many personal solar lights to the nomads in the Changtang!

Last week we assisted our friend (name withheld) in India, money to purchase supplies for the Tibetan nomads living in the Changtang Tibetan Plateau. They were severely affected by winter snow and lost over half of their yak and sheep. The photographs are of Lobsang bringing the much needed supplies. More about the Changpa, people of the Changtang Plateau.

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April, 2019 we traveled to Chengdu, then to Lhasa and Gyantse in the Tibet Autonomous Region and ended in Beijing, China. Our two-fold purpose was to bring the first of several Community LifeStraws to Yushu, a Tibetan area near Xining, China, where much of the drinking water is unsafe. We also brought LuminAID solar lights to distribute in Chengdu, Lhasa, Karola and Gyantse.
A special thank you to LuminAID, LifeStraw, and everyone who took part in making this, our 7th trip, one of the most memorable ever!​​​
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