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Gesar Fund Continues Effort After Earthquake June 2010 Earthquake relief
Over the first week in June till now the government is tearing down all their big office buildings and schools in the main streets of Jyekundo. Plans and rumours about where they will be rebuilt go around in the devastated city as well as in the smaller villages close by. Also, houses have to be levelled because building new roads is contemplated. For instance a road might be built through Chenduo to Jyekundo with a new bridge over the Yangtse river.
Last month the volunteers of the Gesar Fund distributed their last rice and flour supplies in the villages and prepared for another large food buying trip to Xining. This food will be distributed again in Jyekundo to those who have no jobs and no means to buy food themselves.
Health projects
Our local Gesar Fund representative, Mr. Tete Kunga, is still in Xining as he has been asked by the government to help out as a Tibetan-Chinese translator in the hospital, as many Tibetan victims of the earthquake do not speak any Chinese. But slowly on we are also moving our efforts back to the healthcare projects we were involved in or planning on before the earthquake happened. So, Mr. Tete Kunga is again working on our TB project and the hepatitis project. Together with Dr. Wang, head of the infection disease department of the Xining Hospital, he is exploring two things: firstly the possibility of adding a doctor to our Gesar Fund team to help out with testing people on hepatitis. Secondly he is exploring the costs of having people from Chenduo County who are severely ill from open TB and immune to general treatment be treated in Dr. Wang's hospital.
 Accounting
Our local Gesar Fund comptroller, Mrs. Sönam Peyo, who is also a professional nurse, is still recruited by the government working in the tent hospital in Jyekundo, distributing medicines. This month of July she will be in Xining and prepare a financial report about how the Gesar Fund money was spent since the earthquake happened on April 14. At that time, our board member Mr. Nyima Kunga will also travel from Holland to Xining again and work with our local Gesar Fund staff.
Picture shows the Gesar Fund medical car that was used a lot at the time of rescuing earthquake victims and now is used again for the TB project that we are slowly (and not completely) turning back to. On its door, it says Holland Gesar Fund in Chinese and Tibetan.
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