The CTA Nurses Training Project has been providing scholarships for Tibetan nursing students since 1995, helping many young women fulfil their ambition to succeed at a career, and at the same time achieve independence for themselves with the ability to help support their families.
For more than 20 years TRAS has sponsored children at Munsel-ling School in the very remote Spiti Valley, northern India. Prior to the pandemic Munsel-ling School shot this wonderful video that they have now posted to their Facebook. Click here to watch
Please note: This video was shot before the pandemic.
Please contact us if you are interested in starting a sponsorship. Read more about our sponsorship program
Update on the PPE’s for the Tibetan Health Care Centres in Nepal Project
In December, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and the Snow Lion Foundation had appealed to TRAS for help in providing Personal Protective Equipment for the health care workers in Tibetan Health Centres in Nepal for the year. TRAS responded with a promise of $14,000.00 and through the generosity of you, our donors, we have raised just under $10,000.
With the funds already sent, they have purchased supplies and are now in the process of distribution.
The children are still receiving an education in spite of the pandemic. Click here to read their report for 2020.
Project #328 – 2019-2022
A shocking statistic: Although there has been great improvement in recent years, Nepal continues to have one of the highest maternal death rates in the Asia Pacific region, with 279 women dying per 100,000 live births, according to recent UN data.
For more than 20 years, the Innovative Development Education Academy (IDEA) in Pokhara, Nepal, has been running an 18 month midwifery education/training course for girls and women from remote areas of Nepal which will help to save lives of mothers and children in those areas.
The Academy is well established and well regarded. Many young women from cities like Kathmandu and Pokhara receive training there, paying their own way – but inevitably they look for work in urban settings. So IDEA looks for international support to help pay for the young women from rural areas to receive this vital training. Most of these graduates return to their own villages and do sterling work in helping to save the lives of mothers and babies.
In 2019, TRAS partnered with IDEA assisting 4 underprivileged students in paying for their 18 month Midwifery course.
See Page 6 in our December 2019 Newsletter to see how the 4 students are doing.
Early 2020 all students were sent home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with kits to help people in their home villages, while studying as much as possible online. This raised a question: how would they be able to study online? The cost per student, to purchase an iPad or smart phone, internet service and data plans has been about $600; so TRAS has offered to pay $2,400 for the four students we are sponsoring.
