- In Summer 2010, The Children's School (Austin, TX) donated boxes of Montessori wooden materials for kindergarten centers in Lhasa; in Fall 2010, this school also hosted an educational toy drive to benefit kindergarten centers in Qinghai Province;
- In Spring 2010, friends and
relatives of Dino Tsai hosted a fundraising event in his memory
to send sport goods to a rural boarding school in Qinghai province;
- In 2008 the Tsering family
hosted
a drive to collect educational toys for a bilingual Chinese-Tibetan
kindergarten classroom in Xining (Qinghai Province);
- In 2007 the Asian American Cultural Center (Austin, TX) hosted a book and educational toy drive on behalf of the Cemenlin Kindergarten (Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region);
- In 2007 and 2008 students and
the ASIA Club at Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX)
hosted a book drive and a fund raising event to send books to the Tibet
Library
(Lhasa, People's Republic of China).
To get involved, please contact Patricia Schiaffini at schiaffi @ talitibet.org.