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100% of all donations received will go to fund activities in the field.
All necessary expenses are met privately by volunteers.
If you live around the Southampton area and would like to lend a hand with some of our fundraising activities we would be happy to hear from you. We thoroughly recommend helping the people in Rigul, we certainly get a lot of satisfaction. It involves a lot of team work, as well as being a social get together, and lots of fun with various activities.
Please contact Margaret on 023 8046 2926.
We started our fundraising for Rigul and other Tibetans when we heard about the poverty and hardship experienced by the Tibetan people since the Chinese invasion and occupation of their country.
The nomadic people of Rigul on the high Tibetan plateau live at an altitude of 12,795 feet and existence is marginal in a sparsely vegetated fragile ecosystem and where winters are extremely harsh. Living in a remote area far from any of the supports for life which we take for granted, they lacked basic healthcare, a school, and still have no piped water, electricity, telephone or sanitation.
We have raised money
from car boot sales; sponsored runs; a parachute jump (see Claire in free-
A DVD tour of the Buddhist pilgrimage sites of India with Ringu Tulku was produced in 2006. If you would like to order a copy of the DVD or video you would be helping to raise money for vital welfare projects in Tibet and India whilst you enjoy these wonderful places.
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