Rigul Trust Newsletter no. 5 Summer 2010 100% of all donations received will go to fund activities in the field 100% of expenses met by volunteers The objectives written into…
HH DALAI LAMA'S 75th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS TIBET FESTIVAL IN THE PARK Saturday 3rd July 2010 12 noon - 6.00pm Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park London SE1 6HZ Next to Imperial War…
EARTHQUAKE APPEAL YUSHU QINGHAI TIBETAN PLATEAU CHINA On 14th April 2010, an earthquake reaching 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Yushu County, Kham, an impoverished area of Tibet and largely…
CHINA EARTHQUAKE DISASTER In this Tibetan region of China over a thousand people died, and many more were injured as a result of the devastating earthquake which struck Yushu county on 14th April. Yushu is in Qinghai province, high on the Tibetan plateau, an impoverished area largely populated by Tibetans. Over 70% of the buildings in the town have been flattened, leaving thousands homeless and shivering in tents overnight in sub-zero conditions. The freezing temperatures and high altitude have hampered search and rescue teams, but hundreds of monks arrived in the worst-affected areas from all over the region to help dig survivors out by hand.