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Zangkar Jamyang, Director of Education Programs, comes to Kham
Aid from the Aba grasslands, specifically Hongyuan county. He
is trilingual, and has an impressive record of achievement working
on education and community development programs for a variety of
international organizations. |
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Doka (right side of picture), a.k.a. Gao Zhengming is
half-Tibetan, a native of Ganzi County. Now officially retired from
his government job, he works on our Better Schools and Medical
programs. |
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Dhayong is a native of Ganzi County, born to a large rural
family there. From an early age she won high academic honors,
eventually including a full scholarship to university where she
earned a Master of Arts in Tibetan language and culture.
By day she vice section chief at the Tourism Bureau of Ganzi
Prefecture, on evenings and weekends she directs Kham Aid's
handicraft program. |
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Adrol is a native of Batang County in south Kham. Taking a
big risk, he traveled from Batang two days to Kangding on the rumor
that Kham Aid was seeking workers. The job that he sought was
already filled, but another position had just opened, working on our
handicraft project in Tagong. Now Adrol manages our Handicraft
Training Center as well as construction skills training course that
Kham Aid is offering to Tagong herdsmen. |
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Guree was born on grassland of Serda county to a family of herdsmen.
He has twelve siblings, of whom only he and one brother
received an education. (the brother entered a monastery). He attended middle school in Serda and
then matriculated at Kangding Normal School to study English,
graduating on June 20th, 2006 with the 9th highest score on
the Tibetan exam among 3,000 test-takers. Five days later he joined Kham aid
Foundation as assistant director of Education Programs. His hobby is
writing poetry and he has posted more than 40 Tibetan poems on the
Web. (see
www.chekha.blog.sohu.com) He says, "I
like this (NGO) work very much, because can help many people." |