* Orphans or those children losing parents;

 * Children from one-parent families;

 * Children whose parents are disabled or sick for a long time without work-capacity;( now we have children whose parents suffer from sicknesses such as deaf-mutes, blindness, paralysis, cancer, accidental disabilities, psychosis or are stricken by poverty or unable to go to school. 

 * Children form the poorest families;

 * Children unable to go to school or exceeding their school ages.

 * handicapped children.

 Legal representative: Libing
 email: libing@tibetanflowers.org

On May 23, 2006, the Education Bureau in Yunnan’s Di Qing Ethnic Tibetan Prefecture Education Bureau officially gave us, the Sen Ji Mei Duo Charity School, permission to break ground. On June 13, 2006, the school was were granted official status as a legal charitable organization. On June 22, 2006, we also received official status as a private charity orphanage-school in the People’s Republic of China.

The Sen Ji Mei Duo Charity School is a non-profit school offering ten years of free education, shelter, food and medical care for all students attending the school.

Our mission: We seek to offer our students ten years of necessary and practical education that will allow them to in future support themselves and to improve the community in which they live.

Our School Education Plan:

From Year One to Year Four teachers will focus on providing students with a basic education which includes the Tibetan language, Chinese language, English language, Mathematics, Computers, Geography, History, Music, Physical Education, Art, Environmental Protection, Personal and Public Hygiene.

From Year Five, students will branch off into three vocations:

Option One: Tibetan Thanka Painting. This vocation employs the ancient, traditional methods using natural stone pigments and painting techniques.

Option Two: Health Care and Hygiene Professionals. Students will study basic Tibetan Traditional Medicine and Western Medicine. Graduates will eventually run much-needed clinics in remote, mountainous areas where there is currently no health care and where common health problems now threaten the lives of the population.

Option Three: Translators. Students will learn to translate the Tibetan language to English and vice-versa, or choose to learn to translate Tibetan to Chinese and vice-versa.

Our Future Goals:
It is our hope that a few of the students from the first graduating class will choose to remain at the school to become teachers and school managers with the aim of continuing the cycle of education and positive change in the area.

We also hope that some of the children will also start their own clinics or charity schools in these poverty-stricken areas.

With this in mind, we also seek to find companies or individuals who would be willing to in future support such schools and clinics. The former will need a larger amount of funding, while the latter will need just one healthcare professional from our school to make a huge difference in the general health of the chosen area.

A note on the Thanka painting school, which employs natural fibres and natural stone pigments; our goal is to ensure this dying art, dating back more than 1,500 years does, not disappear entirely from the region. We have currently found two elderly teachers who are willing to pass on this knowledge.

How the School Uses Donation Money:

The project currently uses donations for the building the School and Dormitories. Previous efforts to use existing buildings donated by local villagers or religious persons were thwarted for various reasons, which later required us to build on donated land across the Mekong river from Batang, Sichuan. We are now located in nearby Yunnan but will still educate children in the poor Batang region.

Each child needs 180 rmb per month. This fee goes toward the students’ food, tuition, teachers’ salaries, electricity bills, needed medical care, etc. It must be noted that in talking with several people about this fee, Chinese friends believe the price to be too high, while foreign friends believe it to be too little. But we are not sure if this money is enough to ensure the basic needs of the children. If anyone would like to give more, this money would go towards a funding for medical or other emergencies that are not covered in our medical insurance plan.

Suggestions for Donation of Books,
School Supplies Mailed Directly to the School:

We gratefully accept books or DVDs that can be used to teach the above-mentioned subjects that are suitable for children only.

We do not need book bags, pencil bags, etc., as the children live at the school. We gratefully accept notebooks (even used books if the used pages are first torn away), pencils, erasers, pens, paints, paintbrushes, toys, balls, badminton equipment, etc. All of these supplies can be used supplies, but should be in working condition.

We gratefully accept medicines and medical supplies that are appropriate for children only, including vitamins, environmentally friendly disinfectants, etc.

We gratefully accept clean, undamaged or mended clothing, bedding, shoes or toys for children under 1.5 meters tall. We currently have an overstock of adult clothing. We do not accept short skirts, short pants, tank tops or midriff-baring clothing. We will accept newly purchased undergarments only.

Please print your name and return address clearly on the outside of the box and include your name and address inside the box so that we can record your donation and provide the information on the website.

We will include the donation money and information on bookkeeping section of this website.

Our Address:

Yunnan, Di Qing, Zang Zu Zi Zhi Zhou,

Wei Xi Xian, Ta Cheng Zhen,

Qi Zong Cun, Da Mo Fan Dian,

Li Bing Shou, You Bian 674609

The School’s Banking Account Information:(For RMB only)

Account Number: 24-169801040010876

Account Name: Sen Ji Mei Duo Ci Shan Xue Xiao

China Agricultural Bank (Zhong Guo Nong Ye Yin Hang)

Yunnan Province, Di Qin Prefecture Branch

Working Days from Monday to Friday. Donors are expected to bring their National Identity Card or Passport to the bank when making the transaction.

(For any money)
BANK OF CHINA BEIJING BRANCH No. 8 Ya Bao Lu
         Beijing, China
　　　  SWIFT number, BKCHCNBJ 110 
         Account Number: 4000404-0188-041918-1
　　　  Account Name: LI BING


Teachers:

Qualified educators will be required to sign a contract with the school and will all be required to spend at least one year at the school.

Basic education teachers will be paid a subsistence salary of 220 rmb, and will be provided with free room and board at the school. They will eat the same food as the students, at the same time as the students and in the same cafeteria as the students. Each year, teachers will receive 700 rmb for travel expenses, to be disbursed after spending a minimum of one year at the school.