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Increasingly, we are asked about ways to help the project. Our greatest need is financial. Although our success in obtaining grants is encouraging, grant money is often restricted to specific uses. We still have the continual search for funds to cover our operating expenses.We are an all-volunteer organization. As you might guess, this means a considerable contribution of our time and to some degree, personal funds. The on-going expenses of printing, postage, film, processing make a constant drain on meager re-sources. Your donations and purchases of T-shirts and paper products from our Tibetan colleagues in Kathmandu have made a crucial difference in our ability to keep the project running, and pay the expenses of travel to and from Tibet.
Many of you have been touched by the stories of the children at the Jatsun Chumig School, our partner organization in Lhasa. Some friends of Paper Road are helping by sponsoring individual students or making general contributions to the school through PR/T. The costs for the school to house and teach a Tibetan child are only $45 a month. If sponsoring a child for a whole year is too much, ask your group or club to join you to build a sponsorship. We thank the donors who have already taken this approach to helping. Gifts of medicines and supplies are also helpful.
Fund-raising events such as public or in-home slide shows are a great way to help. You can help by sharing this great project with your friends, schools and organizations. Paper Road also has a wish list of priority needs. We hope to obtain
funding for professional quality video documentation. We would also like audio recording equipment for translation of the oral histories of Tibetan papermakers. A donation of equipment, or the funding to purchase it would help us to complete the research htmlect of our work.
We would love to hear what you think of the project. Your letters, ideas and contributions are necessary to continue this important work.
How to Contribute
If you would like to receive more information about contributing to Paper Road/Tibet or the handmade paper products made by Tibetan Handicraft Paper Industry in Kathmandu you can email us at