All current Crowdfunding Projects from Zanskar, Indien

Tsering Tundup is a traditional Tibetan doctor, called « amchi » in his mother tongue. He is from Zanskar, a remote valley in the Indian Himalayas. He lives in a small village (Shadey) at an altitude level of about 4500m without road access. To reach his village one has to walk at least 3 days from the capital of Zanskar (Padum). In winter access to healthcare gets very difficult in Zanskar valley since the entire region is disconnected by roadway during 7 months and it also gets difficult to move inside Zanskar to reach the central health infrastructure in Padum. Winter is the time of studying, praying and being together for the Zanskari people. The Zanskari love their homeland and trust in their traditional medicine to which especially the people in the remote villages rely on. Tsering Tundup is intelligent, motivated and wants to deepen his knowledge in Tibetan medicine by doing a 3 months internship in Dharamsala, where the centre of Tibetan medicine studies is. We want to enable him this internship with your help. Tsering Tundup will give a teaching to his amchi colleagues of what he learned so that his internship will also be beneficial for his amchi colleagues.

Hello Jullay ! In Zanskar, in the Indian Himalayas, 14’000 people are isolated from the rest of India for as long as 5 to 7 consecutive winter months due to heavy snowfalls blocking the few road accesses through mountain passes. There is no rescue service in case of emergency or critical medical condition. This is where our project fits in. We plan to train a team of 8 young Zanskari in rescue and emergency medicine, including basic support in birth delivy and postnatal care, and starting from March 2018.

Zanskar is located in the region of Ladakh in the trans-Himalayan mountain desert in the extreme north of India with villages located at an altitude of 2700m - 4000m above sea level. Zanskar is a cold desert with winter temperatures touching - 30° C & an average annual rain/snowfall of only 100 mm. Zanskari people are mostly self-sufficient farmers and totally depended on their crops and domestic animals. In the high altitude they grow barley, wheat, peas and some vegetables (potatoes, carrots, cabbage, spinach)