UK Charity Registration No.1124076  Tel: 02380 462926

100% of all donations received will go to fund health care, education and poverty relief projects.  

All necessary expenses are met privately by volunteers.

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We have seen a year of extraordinary catastrophes during 2010, bringing heart rending death and destruction in many places. We have had the privilege of being able to act as a conduit for raising awareness and funds for the Yushu earthquake on the Tibetan plateau and the Ladakh floods.

£15,000 has been donated for the Yushu earthquake and over £8,000 for the Ladakh floods.

However with such a concentration on these emergencies this has taken the focus away from our primary focus of Rigul, Kham, Tibet.

Education and Health Care in Rigul

We have committed ourselves to really try and support Rigul health clinic and school year in and year out. We need all the help that we can get to help in Rigul. Life is hard and conditions are very challenging. This year we sent more money to Rigul than came into the Trust. We are dipping into our reserves, which is fine, but we try to keep some in reserve to cover emergencies and the constant high rise in costs of food and raw materials in China. We need to keep some funds in reserve to maintain sustainability for lean years too.

For the year May 2010 to May 2011 we are sending around £40,000 for the salaries of Dr Chuga, Ani Choden the nurse, the doctor’s assistant, the running costs of the clinic, sixty children’s education with two free, hot meals a day at school, five teachers, three cooks, funds for building a dining room (at the moment the children have to eat in the open air brrrrr in winter!) buying and laying underground water pipes to channel the water to nearer the village from the stream and one toilet to be built – the first ever!

We have also had a request for funds to build a sickroom for the Health Clinic supported by Rigul Trust whereby patients can stay overnight as often they travel from far away and being sick it is difficult to get to the clinic and back in a day. This, we would very much like to be able to help with.

SPONSOR A TIBETAN CHILD

Ringu Tulku suggests some sponsoring and so we have an appeal programme to sponsor a child/children with an education and two hot meals a day.

We have a choice of sponsoring one or more children in the following ways:

• Sponsoring one child for one year costs £200

• Sponsoring one child for six months costs £100

• Sponsoring one child for three months costs £50

• Sponsoring one child for six weeks costs £25

The cost for the year for 60 children at £200 each is £12,000

This would be so very helpful if we can all chip in and help sponsor these children and give them a chance that we would give our own children. Rigul is so remote and communications so difficult we wouldn’t be able to allocate a specific child with a name and a photo. But this I feel is even more worthwhile knowing how ‘cut off’ that they are from the world and in such desperate need. Many children have to walk for an hour each way to school and the winters are severe.

Be a friend of Rigul Trust and help us reach our target funding of £12,000 for 2011 for all the children in Rigul - please sponsor a Tibetan child.

We are running this appeal, set out below. Please share this with your friends, family, colleagues, forward this email, put it on blogs and please help in every way that you can. Have a fund raising activitity, a coffee morning, a bring and buy, sell something on e-bay for us, a car boot sale, collect all your coppers and small silver, and offer this to the kiddies in Rigul – they would be so very appreciative of enough hot food and some schooling, that is a real wanted gift.

Please help the kiddies in Tibet. - HELP BY SPONSORING A TIBETAN CHILD

DONATING BY PAYPAL - online - using any currency - from any country - without bank charges to the donor. You do not need to already have a Paypal account, you can donate using your credit or debit card, it is very easy to do and just takes a few minutes.

To use the PayPal facility for the Tibetan Children’s Appeal, through Rigul Trust, click on the following link to donate:

(Enter the amount you wish to donate, click ‘Update’ and then send your donation.)

 100% of all donations made through Rigul Trust Tibetan Children’s Appeal will go to sponsoring the children of Rigul.

BY CHEQUE:  Cheques made payable to Rigul Trust - address: Rigul Trust, 13 St Francis Avenue, Southampton, SO18 5QL. UK

UK taxpayers eligible for Gift Aid.

Pledge for 2011

We have a target

£12,000 for sixty children

Let’s do it

Let’s make it happen

Let’s do it together

Bring a child an education

Bring a smile to their faces

And food in their tummies

A proper dormitory room is needed as when weather is very harsh many children are forced to sleep at school

GIFT AID

If you a are a UK taxpayer and you would like your donation to be treated via Gift Aid please add your name, check the box below and submit.  This will allow us to reclaim 25 pence of every pound donated.

This PDF leaflet for our Tibetan Children’s Education Appeal details our appeal and includes payment details for cheques and standing order mandates. Just download, print, fill in your details and post back to us at the address on the form. You might also like to Gift Aid your donation if you are a UK taxpayer.

So please consider Sponsoring a Tibetan child today and bring a smile and a brighter future to these youngsters.

If you would like us to send you some leaflets to distribute please contact us on  Tel: 02380 462926

info@rigultrust.org

Rigul Trust

13 St Francis Avenue

Southampton

Hampshire

SO18 5QL

UK