The THE PAPER ROAD/TIBET project is housed in Lhasa at the Jatson Chumig Special Welfare School, where we have been received with enthusiasm in a working partnership. The school, founded to preserve and teach traditional Tibetan arts and crafts, is home to children and young adults who are physically or mentally disabled, and orphaned. The school staff has facilitated every htmlect of our work.
PR/T has worked with the school to set up and equip a workshop to produce handmade papers and to design and produce products using both traditional Tibetan papers and recycled papers. The Jatson Chumig papermaking workshop will provide vocational training for the older students who have completed the minimal schooling. As the project expands, the supplies and handmade papers produced by smaller villages throughout Tibet will provide supplemental income for additional Tibetans.
