Past projects Health and health education Medicines to the traditional health clinic of Amchi Lonpo Wangchuk in Karsha, Zangskar, NW India Health education talks and village sanitation instruction, Thailand PBM (Parbatya Bouddha Mission) Orphanage School and Mobile Health Clinic, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Support ophthalmological training, Tibet Vision Project, Tibet Training of Tibetan monks and nuns as health workers, India Healthy Baby Competition, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India* Continuing education for nurses, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India** Training of health workers: Assam, India Health management training, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India** Community health worker training and refresher courses for both health workers and monks in Tibetan monasteries, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India** Health talks culminating in poster competition for schoolchildren, Kollegal Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India Dental kits to Tibetan Educational and Children’s Home (TEACH), Kollegal Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India Instruction in family planning and nutrition, Hunsur Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India Health assessment and report of Tibetan refugees in India General drugs to the Department of Health, Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Dharamsala, Himachel Pradesh, N India Provision of ophthalmological equipment to DTR Hospital, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India** Tuberculosis (TB) medication to Department of Health, Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, N India Mass Health Awareness Campaign at Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement, South India
Sanitation Water pump to Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute (TMAI) medical clinic in Bandhara Tibetan Settlement, Maharashtra, Central India Trash collection system and maintenance to Ganden Shartse Tibetan Monastery,Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India Village Sanitation Competitions, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka , South India** Well covers to two villages in Western Tibet Water purification system, SOGA School for New Arrivals, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, N India
Education Bicycles for rural schoolchildren, northeastern Thailand Adult Literacy Project in Sohbar, Meghalya, northeast India (overseen by Dr Gonglah) Computer, printer, science laboratory, dental kits and educational materials to Dawa Dhondup, at Tibetan Educational and Children’s Home (TEACH), Kollegal Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India Educational materials to schoolchildren in two villages, Western Tibet Teachers’ training courses, teachers’ salaries and vitamins to educate untouchables in Campaign for a Literate Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India Informal education for 500 child labourers aged 8-14, in UP, India. The children also received environmental instruction from community elders. Mupyut Literacy Project in Meghalaya, northeast India Schooling for 500 village child carpet weavers, through the Centre for Child Concern, New Delhi, India Teacher training in Kolkata for very poor teachers from the Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh, north India. Support for SNEHA schools, Arunachal Pradesh, NE India 2005-2016; overseen by Susanta Chakma
Environmental Windmill to DTR Hospital, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India** Environmental education and tree planting for schoolchildren to Massihi Gyanodhay Abiyan (MGA, Campaign for a Literate Bodh Gaya), Bihar, India Two concrete pathways for a Tibetan nunnery, so that the nuns do not get muddy in the monsoon season, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India ** Solar cooker to save wood to Ganden Shartse Monastery, Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India**
** Projects in Mundgod were overseen, and often devised, by the late Tenpa TK, BODHI's first formal Indian representative. Tenpa, who had suffered polio, was a pharmacist who really understood health promotion. Tenpa also oversaw some of the other projects with Tibetans
Volunteers Two doctors at DTR Hospital for one year, Mundgod, Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India (BODHI US) 3 students from Lake Erie College, Ohio to teach English at TMAI, Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, N India (BODHI US) Australian nurse to hospital in Kollegal Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India (six months) Australian English teacher/construction worker to Kollegal, Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India (six months) Australian English teacher to SOGA School for New Arrivals, Dharamasala, Himachal Pradesh, N India Western medical student to Mundgod, Tibetan Settlement, Karnataka, South India Periodic placement of Western volunteers to work with Tibetans in India
Animal BOWSER (BODHI’s Wild Dog Sterilisation and Eradication of Rabies Programme), N India Help purchase and equip ambulance-mobile clinic, People for Animals, New Delhi, Revolving Sheep Bank, Tibet Gobi bear project, Mongolia (from general funds, not tax deductible donations)
