The Chiesi Group, together with its Curosurf Partner Nycomed, is supporting the Lama Gangchen Kiurok Tsochun "Help in Action” Organization participating to one of their humanitarian projects to the Himalayan people.

A few information regarding "Help in Action” Organization:

• A voluntary Organization founded in 1990 by the Lama Gangchen, Lama and Tibetan doctor who has been living in the Western countries for 15 years and has been working to create a positive cooperation between East and West, both from a cultural and a humanitarian point of view.
• Its aims are long distance adoptions and humanitarian projects for the Himalayan people in Tibet, Nepal and India.
  It is part of the Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation, an ONG affiliate to the UN
• Chiesi’s Headquarter is currently helping the Organization also with some long distance adoptions (young monks and children).

For more information please visit the website: www.lgpt.net/lama_help_it.htm and www.peacenvironment.net

The Project that Chiesi and Nycomed will sponsor is the “Nepu Village Project”

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General information

Nepu is a village located about 150 kms west of Shigatse, in Central Tibet.

Nepu is part of three villages very close to each other: Nepu, Sarpel e Shishung, with a total population of 700-800 people, of whom about 300 are children.

The Project

To improve life condition of the community of Nepu. The project will be realised with the cooperation of the Representatives of the Local Government of Dakshu Shan.

The essential steps will be:

• WATER
  • Building of a watering system and fountains to give the inhabitants running waterm
• SCHOOL
  • Building of a small school to be realized in stone to grant a longer lifetime and resistance to the extreme climate conditions. Equipped with desks, seats, board, school material and external hygienic facilities.
  • Realization of a basic sanitary education in favour of children, through information and teachers training.
• HEALTH
  • Building of a small dispensary to have the essential medical remedies and to educate adults and children to hygiene.
  • Training of one/two nurses and one obstetrician and presence of a Tibetan doctor.
• TREES AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT
  • Plant of several hundred trees and fruit trees all around the village to provide shelter and protection from wind, sun , earth erosion, and to produce wood and fresh fruits thus improving nutrition, currently very poor in vitamines.
  • Develope a small agriculture project to produce vegetables.

It will be a 3-year support and this year’s fund will cover the cost for building the school.

Lama Help in Action’s volunteers travel to Tibet every Summer to bring funds directly and personally to the local authorities/communities. Therefore, the project to build the school would start this Autumn.

Furthermore , always this year, the Chiesi Group will independently support the Nepu Village Project by contributing to the purchase and plantation of some hundreds trees.