Thanks for Your Support

Paper Road/Tibet continues as a small grass roots project. We believe that our future is as ad-vo-cates, with Tibetan Handi--craft Industry as active participants and teachers in Tibet. Tibetans working together to revitalize hand papermaking is the long-term goal.

Again we thank the Ambassador’s Fund in Beijing, the Embassy of Canada, and the Everest Environmental Project for funding training projects—im--portant help in getting us started.

Grants funding the Summer of 1999 intensive program were provided by Threshold Foundation, San Francisco; Everest Environmental Project, Colorado Springs; and individual donors.

The Cottonwood Foundation of White Bear Lake granted funds for the purchase of a guillotine cutter. An anonymous foundation gift purchased a Hollander beater. Both are now in place at the Jatson Chumig Welfare Special School in Lhasa.

We received contributions from Jake Norton of Colorado Springs, a member of the expedition that identified Mallory’s body on Everest, and from one of Jake’s sponsors, Mountain Chalet of Colorado Springs. Jan Black, of Black Ink, Boulder, made a major contribution. Thanks also to the Earl L. Mann Scholarship fund and J. Parker Huber, as well as to all our other valuable individual contributors.

The Henry Luce Foundation and The Fanny and Leo Koerner Charitable Trust, both funded the International Tibetan Archive Preservation Project (ITAPP), an independent project under the auspices of the Crossing Over Consortium, Inc. PR/T project member, Jim Canary, is a member of ITAPP.

PR/T facilitates a sponsorship program for the children at the school, with funds provided by a wonderful group of individuals. A donation of $45 per month supports a child in the residential educational and vocational training program.

Through Paper Road/Tibet, individuals can also support the Sagarmantha Nursery Project and the Bigu School Committee in the home villages of members of Tibetan Handicraft Industries.

We are again grateful for the in-kind contribution of web design from John Kin of Portland. The Hotel Garuda in Kathmandu helps by giving project members a discount on lodgings. Lee Scott McDonald Inc. generously added a number of safety features to the school’s Hollander beater.