First stage

• text books and learning & teaching materials:

• 250rmb/person x 10 = 2500rmb

• classroom rent: 50rmb/day x 25 days = 1250rmb

• teachers’ wages: 100rmb/day x 25 days = 2500rmb

• hotel: 30rmb/person/day x 10 persons x 45 days = 13500rmb

• meals: 30rmb/person/day x 10 persons x 45 days = 13500rmb

• transport fares: 60rmb/person x 10persons x 2 = 1200rmb

• doctor’s clothes: 150rmb/person x 10persons = 1500rmb

• Total: 35950rmb

Second stage

• payment for the hospital for the trainees to practice: 500rmb/person x 10days = 5000rmb

• stipends for the trainees: 20rmb/person/day x 10 persons x 49 days = 9800rmb

• sphygmomanometers: 100rmb x 10 = 1000rmb

• Stethoscopes: 50rmb x 10 = 500rmb

• High-pressure sterilizing pots: 800rmb x 10 = 8000rmb

• Baby balances: 100rmb x 10 = 1000rmb

• Baby delivery bags: 500rmb/bag x 2bags/person x 2persons = 1,000rmb

• tweezers, scissors, injection needles, out-visiting medical kits, etc: 660rmb/person x 10 persons = 6600rmb

• administration for Women’s Federation: 3000rmb

• circulating funds for medicine purchase: 3000rmb/person x 10 persons = 30,000rmb

Total: 74900rmb

Total for the two stages: 110,850 rmb.

The above is the budget for the Yajiang women.  In the second year of the program (2002), women from Litang and Baiyu were trained. The costs increased due to increased transportation expense, and also some increases for materials and equipment.

Baiyu: 114,090 rmb

Litang: 111,610 rmb

PLUS: Kham Aid Foundation administrative overhead (10%)

TOTAL COST OF TRAINING TEN MIDWIVES:

Yajiang (2001): 121,935 rmb, or $14,870
Baiyu (2002): 125,499 rmb, or $15,304
Litang (2002): 122,771 rmb, or $14,972