A gift of solidarity

Our solidarity gifts are a concrete gesture to help populations in serious difficulty: from Tibet, cradle of a millenary culture that risks disappearing, to Nepal, a very poor country struggling to recover from the terrible 2015 earthquake, from Mongolia, where the population has to deal with climate change making winter temperatures increasingly harsh (down to -50), to Myanmar, a country that must preserve its natural resources before they come under attack from industries.

With the 2017 calendar we invite you to take a journey through the Tibetan plateau via the gazes and smiles of Tibetan children and monks. Since 1994 we have been running Distance Support (SAD) projects to provide continuous help to children, students, monks and the elderly. All the funds raised through the calendar will be used for Education projects, such as creating libraries of Tibetan texts, training English teachers, equipping schools with computers and much more.

A truly special solidarity gift is the bracelet with the Thokcha pendant: legend has it that no human hands forged the Thokcha, but that they fell down to earth from the sky, and today these “objects”, according to Tibetan tradition, are sacred, “magic” and attract good luck, protecting the people who wear them from evil demons. The bracelet is also available in another version, with the Endless Knot pendant, a symbol of good omen, of the union of male and female energy, of perpetual love and of the continuous cycle of life.

There are also the akshamala with stones and silver, made by Nepalese artisans, and to wish your friends “Happy Holidays” there are the solidarity greeting cards dedicated to Nepalese children, as well as the t-shirt or the shopper “#Namaskar4Nepal”. ASIA has been working in Nepal since 1996 and during the earthquake emergency it helped over 26,000 people. It is now engaged in the reconstruction of 4 schools destroyed by the earthquake, but for this project the funds never seem to be enough, because once the schools have been built they will have to be equipped and then the children who will attend them will need support.