Support Enrichment Program for Tibetan Children
Machik's Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) offers unique and enriching learning opportunities for students, teachers and community members, local and international on the Tibetan Plateau. Your support of the program will help provide summer programs such as language classes in English, Tibetan, and Chinese, participatory filmmaking, photo camp, music, incense making, sports, cooking, needlework and other activities that have helped cultivate the values of community service, global responsibility, and environmental conservation.
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The Need
The vast area of the Tibetan plateau has a population of approximately six million Tibetans. Its female literacy rate is about 13% while the male literacy rate is 38%. Machik believes that education represents the most fundamental means to strengthening human capacity and is committed to finding ways to support education for Tibetan communities through its schools, training programs, libraries and online resources. The SEP is one program that helps educate the children of nomads and subsistence farmers on the Tibetan Plateau. By understanding their Tibetan heritage as well as their opportunities for participating in today’s globalized world, Tibetan children and their families are better prepared to embrace their future while preserving their past.
About Machik
Partner since September, 2008
Machik works to help chart new pathways forward as communities on the Tibetan plateau approach uncertain times. They work directly with local Tibetan communities to help overcome many uncertainties. Their programs include education (rural, urban, primary to middle school, college scholarships, vocational training), women’s initiatives (education for girls and young women, women’s literature and publishing), conservation (solar technologies, greenhouses, clean water), social entrepreneurs (film-makers, health workers, etc), and income generation (incense, motorbike repairs, tourism, etc.). By providing new resources, networks, tools and technology, Machik's goal is to establish a portal for developing new partnerships that can help create alternative pathways toward a strong, healthy, and more sustainable future on the Tibetan plateau. Through outreach efforts to Tibetans, Chinese, and global citizens alike, they seek to build a shared understanding of the potential of their work for a collective future. Machik’s Ruth Walter Chungba Primary School (CPS), now in its seventh year of operation, has set a new standard for rural Tibetan primary education in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.