Promote a sustainable and environmentally friendly production model in Nepal capable of responding to climate change through the cultivation of local varieties and ecotypes with high adaptability.
Preserving and passing on to the new generations the cultural and spiritual tradition of Sumthrang and integrating it with a modern academic training.
A modern and competitive education for the Tibetan children of the Dongche school guaranteed in respect of cultural identity in a healthy and appropriate context.
Ensure food security and economic self-sufficiency of the poorest and most marginalized nomadic communities in the Domda district and promote an improvement in the management of pastoral resources and an…
Preventing the spread of COVID-19 and contributing to food security for 100 farming families in the village of Haku.
Ensure the daily food needs of Haku refugees in the temporary camps of the Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts
To reduce the spread of COVID19 infection in Chin State
Supporting rural communities in preventing the pandemic in the municipalities of Kalika and Naukunda, Rasuwa, Nepal
Supporting the Jibjibe community hospital to face the pandemic in the municipality of Kalika, Rasuwa, Nepal
Reducing hunger, malnutrition and poverty and improving the quality of education among the poorest families in the Rasuwa district of Nepal
To reduce the spread of COVID19 infection in Chin State
Facilitate safe access to education by protecting the health of the students and teachers of the Manasarovar School and ensuring a month of food provisions for the families in extreme…
Supporting the nuns of Sumtrhang Monastery so that they can continue to transmit Buddhist traditions and practices to the population of the Ura valley in Bhutan.
Supporting the Santa Corona di Pietra Ligure hospital in Research on rare forms of neurological presentation of covid19 and distribution of “food for thought” packages to children and families in…
Support activities for the population and prevention and awareness to help contain coronavirus infection as much as possible in the countries in which we work
Improve the marginal use of the territory of the Rasuwa district through fruit, fodder and multipurpose trees, create job opportunities for young people in the community by mitigating the trend…
Improve the living conditions of small-scale farmers by increasing agricultural production and the marketing of high-value vegetables and seeds in the central region of Nepal
to safeguard the identity of the Tibetan people through education
Guaranteeing adequate nutrition for the children of the schools of Dupcheshwori, Aarukharka and Thangdor through the renovation and the enlargement of the canteen and kitchen.
The project aims to develop a sustainable coffee supply chain in Myanmar, where the economic potential of this resource is not yet fully valorised. This proposal stems from a longstanding…
Agriculture is one of the biggest sources of income in Nepal. However, due to climate change and the use of chemical pesticides some lands have been abandoned. The villages of…
Encourageing child schooling in the district of Asgat, a Mongolian province of Sukhbaatar, for children from the poorest nomadic families.
Improve the living conditions of rural communities in the municipality of Naukunda, Rasuwa, by strengthening agricultural production and the market value chain.
Contributing to the growth of a sense of belonging to a global community by promoting knowledge between people from different cultures and spreading the concept of diversity as a value….
Guaranteeing agricultural productivity for self-sustainability and trade to 360 farmers in Kavrepalanchok, Sindhuli and Sindhupalchok Districts; creating water collection systems and highly efficient irrigation systems.
Improving the lifestyle of women and their families by increasing their income while working in environmental preservation and promotion of forest-based industries other than wood in Langtang National Park -…
Improving Tanggan school, promoting Ngari traditional music and making Tibetan instruments.
Spreading Tibetan culture and traditions all over the world by supporting the studies of young Tibetans so as to improve the overall quality of life in the Tibetan areas.
In the last ten years, Mongolia has witnessed a strong economic growth, with its annual GDP growing by 17%. However, the following crisis has affected a group of people –…
In Tibet, there are three types of pilgrimage destinations: natural sights, such as mountains, lakes and caves; sites built by humans, such as temples, monasteries and retreat locations; and the…
80% of the population lives off agriculture, and the organic products niche market is growing in Nepal. This opportunity needs to be taken advantage of today, to help producers get…
Our aim is to reverse the poverty cycle in the local communities.
Promote the traditional medicine, it is one of the most precious and distinctive aspects Himalayan culture.
ASIA’s main mission is to preserve Tibetan culture, more so at a time like this, when knowledge of traditional societies is at risk of being forgotten. Tibetan nomads have always…
to help Mongolian shepherds face the harsh effects of dzud, and improve their economic situation
The population of the village of Yarsa (Rasuwa District), though among those most seriously hit by the earthquake, did not find it easy to get help due to the inaccessible…
Thanks to its sponsorship project, ASIA promotes primary and secondary education for Tibetan children who live in India. The schools that host them are located in Northern India in the…
At Boudhanath, the Kathmandu area where many Tibetan refugee families live, we distributed to 105 families (about 578 people): 68 tents, 66 blankets and 8 kitchen kits, each kit including: one 20 liter…
ASIA has helped the destroyed VDC (Village Development Committee) villages in Batase. Thanks to the funds of the Autonomous Province of Bozen and to private donors, 825 people received 250 CGI sheets…
In the slums of Kathmandu (in Bhuikhel and Jawalakhel), shantytowns where the houses were made of metal sheets and cardboards, live children from very poor families. Due to the earthquake,…
ASIA works in rural villages in the north of Nepal, near the Tibetan border (Rasuwa district), where the destruction was total, with 95% of the buildings collapsed. ASIA was the…
We helped 223 nuns from the Shree Bhakhang Dondub Dhing nunnery, on the Tibetan border. At the time of the earthquake, the nuns were outside doing meditation and their monastery…
In the VDC (Village Development Committee) of Yarsa and Saramthali ASIA built 48 temporary learning centers in order to restart the educational activities in 18 schools destroyed by the earthquake. These centers…
In Baluwa, with the help of Caritas, its own funds and contributions from other foundations, ASIA helped 1,902 families (10,461 people) through the training of 1,600 farmer families in organic agricolture, realization…
With the financial contribution of Caritas and its own funds, Asia has assisted the refugees from the Village Development Committee (VDC) in Haku and Dandagaun who escaped the devastation in the…
To prevent the risk of landslides, ASIA and the University of Milan-Bicocca have mapped the region of Rasuwa District in the northern part of the country and in VDC Baluwa…
Since 2010, after fifty years of military dictatorship and a rigid economic and political isolation, Myanmar has started a process of democratization and political and economic reforms, accompanied by a…
The population of the Qinghai plateau reveals high poverty rates and people are strongly affected by this impoverishment. Big changes such as a steady increase of the population in contrast…
The Rma zhol School is located in the Tongde County at 3600 m.as.l. in the Hainain Prefecture, a very remote area. This school was founded in 1956 and today hosts…
In 2013 the College of Yena Gomba, one of the most important preservation centres of Tibetan culture, located in the Sichuan Province asked ASIA for help. Preserving the Tibetan culture…
We work at the elementary school of Genesai since 2011, when the earthquake of 2010 destroyed the city of Yushu and caused enormous damages in the whole Namchem County….
The Singhkry Monastery is an ancient teaching centre of the Nyingma doctrine in the Qinghai Province, where many of the leading monks and scholars of the Tibetan philosophy have…
The school of Genesai is located in pasture lands at 4300 m.a.s.l. and it is the only school in a radius of 50 km. Since 2005 the school provides…
We work in the school in Derge (west of the Sichuan province in the central part of the ancient Tibetan region called “Kham”) since 2005. Since 2009, the children moved…
In 1993 ASIA reaches Dongche, a poor farming village settled at 3000 meters above the sea level in a lunar landscape surrounded by mountains and characterized by and arid climate….
The Elementary School of Tanggan is located between the mountains covered by meadows, at an altitude of about 3700 meters. We arrived in Tanggan in 2001 and our first initiative…
The Rigmo elementary school is located near the Kokonor Lake, a sacred lake to Tibetans and the origin of many legends. The school was founded in 1987 by using and…
The school is located in Yungog at an altitude of 3700 meters in the village of Hebei. The difficult living conditions and isolation of Hebei, where the school is located,…
In 1996, Jigmed Gyaltsen, monk of the famous Ragya Monastery located in the plateau of the Golok prefecture, at an altitude of 4.200 meters, created a school where male children…
Located in Ramhiti Boudhanath, town in the outskirts of Kathmandu, the Tibetan community has found a reference in a school, the Manasarovar School, name inspired by the holy lake located…
The Tibetan Homes Foundation was founded in 1962 in the Mussorie, the Indian state of Uttaranchal Pradesh to accommodate the little orphans or the poorest children of the Tibetan community…
From being the largest rice exporter, Nepal suffers today a chronic food shortage: 80% of Nepalese people live on subsistence farming in very small properties, often located on steep terrain…
In Qinghai Province the illiteracy and school dropout rates are very high, for this reason the school of Wakha is essential in order to ensure the right to education for…
Weragama and are Urawatta are two fishing communities of the southwest coast of Sri Lanka affected by the 2004 Tsunami. We intervened in the two communities after the natural disaster…
Promote women’s self-sufficiency and improve their life conditions among the nomadic community of Chengduo County.
In the countries of the Himalayas where ASIA works, tackling disease is very distressing not only for the physical and psychological suffering that it brings, but also for the resulting…
In the village of Qiewan, located 4200 meters above sea level, is located the school Golok (Snowland Grassland Girls’ School), attended by Tibetan girls from villages scattered over the…
Dzolung is a small monastery of the Sakyapa Tibetan Buddhist tradition, located in a remote area of southwestern Tibet. It used to be residence of a great yogini, Ayu Khadro,…
In 1997 ASIA began to work in the Dongche valley, in order to build an elementary school for Tibetan children from nomadic farmer families of the region. Since then, we have…
On April 14 2010, the prefecture of Yushu where 93% of the population is Tibetan, was hit by a devastating earthquake, which destroyed entire villages. Several of these Tibetan communities…
The municipality of Baluwa is located in the district of Kavre, a very poor area of Nepal where the main economic activity is subsistence farming and where more than 45%…
In Galingteng, a small nomad village in Derge, there is one of the most important sacred sites in the entire region. In the past, the monasteries were supported by the village…
Give the Tibetan women from the Tongde County more opportunities by promoting microenterprises in traditional industries.
The Hebei district is a very poor region in the Tongde County, inhabited by the 98% of nomadic Tibetan pastoralists. The district has only two primary schools, one of them…
In ASIA we believe in intercultural dialogue for the consolidation of a global citizenship based on respect, appreciation and tolerance for diversity. For this purpose with funding of the Autonomous…
The elementary school of Dongche with its comprehensive curriculum and the excellent academic performance of its students, is a role model for other schools in the Guide County. ASIA arrived…
Winter in the Chengdu County is characterized by severe and violent natural disasters. With temperatures that arrive to -30 °, the snowstorms form a thick ice layer in the pastures…
The District of Dolpo is located in Karnali, the Himalayan region of Nepal that borders Tibet. The history of the district is linked to the events of its ancient Buddhist…
In April 14 2010 the prefecture of Yushu, with a predominantly Tibetan population, was shocked after a 7,1 earthquake (Richter scale) that left 2.700 casualties and 12.900 injured behind and…
