Safe and healthy food among Tibetan nomad communities
Our aim is to reverse the poverty cycle in the local communities.
Projects
Hebei. The Tibetan Ethnological and folkloric museum
ASIA’s main mission is to preserve Tibetan culture, more so at a time like this, when knowledge of traditional societies is at risk of being forgotten. Tibetan nomads have always…
Vets on the field in Qinghai
The population of the Qinghai plateau reveals high poverty rates and people are strongly affected by this impoverishment. Big changes such as a steady increase of the population in contrast…
A library for the Rma zhol School
The Rma zhol School is located in the Tongde County at 3600 m.as.l. in the Hainain Prefecture, a very remote area. This school was founded in 1956 and today hosts…
The school of Yena Gonpa
In 2013 the College of Yena Gomba, one of the most important preservation centres of Tibetan culture, located in the Sichuan Province asked ASIA for help. Preserving the Tibetan culture…
The Genesai School
We work at the elementary school of Genesai since 2011, when the earthquake of 2010 destroyed the city of Yushu and caused enormous damages in the whole Namchem County….
Singhkry Monastery
The Singhkry Monastery is an ancient teaching centre of the Nyingma doctrine in the Qinghai Province, where many of the leading monks and scholars of the Tibetan philosophy have…
Education and cultural identity in Genesai
The school of Genesai is located in pasture lands at 4300 m.a.s.l. and it is the only school in a radius of 50 km. Since 2005 the school provides…
The School of Derge
We work in the school in Derge (west of the Sichuan province in the central part of the ancient Tibetan region called “Kham”) since 2005. Since 2009, the children moved…
The School of Dongche
In 1993 ASIA reaches Dongche, a poor farming village settled at 3000 meters above the sea level in a lunar landscape surrounded by mountains and characterized by and arid climate….
The school of Tanggan
The Elementary School of Tanggan is located between the mountains covered by meadows, at an altitude of about 3700 meters. We arrived in Tanggan in 2001 and our first initiative…
The school of Rigmo
The Rigmo elementary school is located near the Kokonor Lake, a sacred lake to Tibetans and the origin of many legends. The school was founded in 1987 by using and…
The school of Yungog
The school is located in Yungog at an altitude of 3700 meters in the village of Hebei. The difficult living conditions and isolation of Hebei, where the school is located,…
The school of Golok
In 1996, Jigmed Gyaltsen, monk of the famous Ragya Monastery located in the plateau of the Golok prefecture, at an altitude of 4.200 meters, created a school where male children…
A rural school in Wakha
In Qinghai Province the illiteracy and school dropout rates are very high, for this reason the school of Wakha is essential in order to ensure the right to education for…
The women’s cooperatives of Chengduo
Promote women’s self-sufficiency and improve their life conditions among the nomadic community of Chengduo County.
Surgery for Living
A case of peritonitis or pulmonary tuberculosis can still be fatal in some Tibetan provinces: the high costs of medical care often force families to draw on traditional medicine; hospitals…
Let’s send them to school!
In the village of Qiewan, located 4200 meters above sea level, is located the school Golok (Snowland Grassland Girls’ School), attended by Tibetan girls from villages scattered over the surrounding…
The cultural heritage of Dzolung
Dzolung is a small monastery of the Sakyapa Tibetan Buddhist tradition, located in a remote area of southwestern Tibet. It used to be residence of a great yogini, Ayu Khadro,…
Learn English in Dongche
In 1997 ASIA began to work in the Dongche valley, in order to build an elementary school for Tibetan children from nomadic farmer families of the region. Since then, we have…
The teachers of Yushu
On April 14 2010, the prefecture of Yushu where 93% of the population is Tibetan, was hit by a devastating earthquake, which destroyed entire villages. Several of these Tibetan communities…
Galingteng Monastery
In Galingteng, a small nomad village in Derge, there is one of the most important sacred sites in the entire region. In the past, the monasteries were supported by the village…
Tongde sartorial cooperative
Give the Tibetan women from the Tongde County more opportunities by promoting microenterprises in traditional industries.
The new Yungog dormitory
The Hebei district is a very poor region in the Tongde County, inhabited by the 98% of nomadic Tibetan pastoralists. The district has only two primary schools, one of them…
A better school in Dongche
The elementary school of Dongche with its comprehensive curriculum and the excellent academic performance of its students, is a role model for other schools in the Guide County. ASIA arrived…
Emergency in Ercun
Winter in the Chengdu County is characterized by severe and violent natural disasters. With temperatures that arrive to -30 °, the snowstorms form a thick ice layer in the pastures…
The orphanage of Yushu
In April 14 2010 the prefecture of Yushu, with a predominantly Tibetan population, was shocked after a 7,1 earthquake (Richter scale) that left 2.700 casualties and 12.900 injured behind and…