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Kunde Foundation

Kunde in Tibet

Registered UK Charity 1079189
KDF is about action for sustainable development in the hard places: the off-the-beaten-track places, the places which for whatever reason are difficult to get to.
We wish to invest our lives in those who have few opportunities to make changes for the better in their own lives.
We look for the gaps in the services, knowledge & opportunities, then we see how we can assist in plugging those gaps.
Kunde means health & well-being for all. The year 2000 has come and gone & not everyone has good health, but health for all is still a goal worth aiming for.
Kunde works with the Prefecture Health Bureau, the 12 Health county bureaus, & different communities.
What are our aims & what do we do?
  • assist the health bureau to have a good quality well functioning service, close to where people live.
  • help people, particularly those in more distant rural areas to have the information they need to make decisions to improve their own lives, and those of their community.
  • Support to the health service
    • Train Doctors
    • Support effective supervision
    • Build clinics - designed & constructed by the communities themselves
    • Provide basic equipment
    • assist leprosy control & rehabilitation of people suffering disabilities, from leprosy or big-bone diseases.
  • Improve lives through :
    • Training village volunteers in healthy life styles who can in turn train others.
    • better nutrition & kitchen gardens, coldframes, green houses & a seedbank
    • better sanitation through safe (fly/dog/pig proof) ventilated compost latrines
    • safe water supplies
    • small irrigation systems
    • skills development to improve economic potential
    • loans of domestic animals
  • Provide necessary information :
    We write, translate, draw, record, make models, posters, silk screen prints & comics to fill this gap.
  • Other areas of interest :
    • community forestry
    • solar energy
    • bee keeping
      • harvesting honey from indigenous himalyan bees.
What Do We Have?
  • Comic books in Tibetan on health & environment, featuring Yeshi the Yak and his friends
  • Kunde T-shirts with our motto :
    "Many little people in many little places,
    doing many little things can change the world"
  • Postcards, sets of 5 local pictures, beautifully reproduced.
  • Silk screen prints on various health & hygeine subjects.
  • Shortly to be released:
    • WHO eye poster in Tibetan or Chinese
    • "Universal child-birth picture book" in English, Chinese & Tibetan
    • Real size of baby cards
    • "How to take a medical history" in Chinese, Tibetan & English.
    • "Diagnostic & treatment manual for primary health care workers" in Tibetan or Chinese
    • Set of colour Tuberculosis cards in Chinese & Tibetan
    • "Prevention of Deformities in Leprosy" in Tibetan
What Do We Need?
  • Expertise
    • water systems and water collection systems.
    • microfinance in the China context.
    • solar ovens and other renewable energy sources.
    • himalyan bee keeping.
  • Funding
    Grants cover part of the program, but most funding comes from gifts & donations. In the UK these can be made under Gift-Aid.
If you would like more information or to help this worthwhile cause, why not contact us!?

kunde@public.ls.xz.cn

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