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Earthquake relief: update June 15th, 2010
Earthquake relief
Over the last week and coming weeks the government is tearing down all their big office buildings and schools in the main streets of Jyekundo. Plans and rumours about where they will be rebuilt go around in the devastated city as well as in the smaller villages close by. Also, houses have to be levelled because building new roads are contemplated. For instance a road might be built through Chenduo to Jyekundo with a new bridge over the Yangtse river. At present the volunteers of the Gesar Fund are distributing their last rice and flour supplies in the villages and they are preparing for another large food buying trip to Xining. This food will be distributed again in Jyekundo to those who have no jobs and no means to buy food themselves.
Health projects
Our local Gesarfund representative, Mr. Tete Kunga, is still in Xining as he has been asked by the government to help out as a Tibetan-Chinese translator in the hospital, as many Tibetan victims of the earthquake do not speak any Chinese. But slowly on we are also moving our efforts back to the healthcare projects we were involved in or planning on before the earthquake happened. So, Mr. Tete Kunga is again working on our TB project and the hepatitis project. Together with Dr. Wang, head of the infection disease department of the Xining Hospital he is exploring two things: firstly the possibility of adding a doctor to our Gesar Fund team to help out with testing people on hepatitis. Secondly he is exploring the costs of having people from Chenduo County who are severely ill from open TB and immune to general treatment be treated in Dr. Wang's hospital.
Accounting
Our local Gesarfund comptroller, Mrs. Sönam Peyo, who is also a professional nurse is still recruited by the government working in the tent hospital in Jyekundo, distributing medicines. In July she will be in Xining and prepare a financial report about how the Gesarfund money was spent since the earthquake happened in April 14. At that time our board member Mr. Nyima Kunga will also travel from Holland to Xining again and work with our local Gesarfund staff.
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