Running Water Project for Bon-skor Tibetan Village
Date of Report: 10 September 2008
Location: Bon skor Tibetan Village, Bya mdo Township, Mangra (Guinan) County, Mtsho lho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. PR China.
Subject: Running Water
Funder: German Embassy
Details:
This project benefited 457 villagers and was made possible with a contribution of 80,000RMB from the German Embassy plus 121,738.50 RMB from the local community. A source of clean water was made available near local homes consequently, the time spent on collecting water has been reduced, women and girls have more time to do other things, children have more time to study because the time spent on fetching water has been greatly reduced, there is no conflict over whose turn it is to get water as was the case with the former water source, conflict has been further reduced by ending disagreements caused by livestock traveling over pasturelands to water sources, and environmental degradation has been reduced by fewer livestock making paths through grassland on the long trek to the former water source.
