Tashi

Tashi is in need of sponsors!

Tashi’s love for animals is the first thing anyone would notice even before interacting with her. She shows immense affection for the cats and dogs in the community. She spends a lot of time with Zema, who is a German Shepherd. She sometimes brings injured animals to the classroom and asks for materials like boxes, waste clothes, or left-over food so that she can care for them. Her patients have included young mice, birds, kittens, and puppies.

Though she spends a lot of time with the animals, Tashi is a child who maintains good personal hygiene and takes care of her things. She takes good care of the classroom space in arranging, cleaning, and labeling things in the classroom. She proactively cleans the classroom alone on the weekends and even corrects her older siblings if they make the space dirty.

Tashi has a love for reading. One can always find one or two library books in her school bag. She has even been found hiding books in between her Math or Social textbooks. She sometimes reads to the class during our reflection time before we begin the day. One day she read about Koala bears, and on another day, she read the story of Malala, which led to a great discussion in the classroom. It wasn’t surprising when Tashi signed up to be a student librarian this year. She works in the school library during her lunch break and in the evenings. She manages the library space, helps children check-in and check out books, and helps to improve the community library.

Tashi has a gift in philosophy, which she doesn’t like to share or publish. But she leaves small notes in the classroom or writes her thoughts on the classroom blackboard. “People have two sides” is one of her many thoughts. In this, she writes, “People have two sides, positive and negative. Most people often show their positive side because some people feel happy, and some want others to see them happy. But some positive people are not always positive - they are more negative than the usual negative person. But some negative people are always negative. Don’t often trust positive people. Give a chance to a negative person. The only similarity between them is, they both can change.”

Child ID: 0903051

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“The most positive change that I see in the children today is that where they had nothing and no hope in their life; today, they are dreaming and thinking of doing something for the world at large; they are thinking of paying forward the kindness of their supporters and caregivers. This, to me, is the biggest achievement of all.”

— GEN LOBSANG PHUNTSOK LA

Write Your Sponsored Child
Write Your Sponsored Child

Your words of support are important to the children. In keeping with Jhamtse Gatsal's Project Earth initiative, we ask you to send electronic letters via email to sponsorship@jhamtse.org. These letters are forwarded to the Community throughout the year and shared with the children. Sponsors will hear back from children once a year.

Typically, a letter from your child will arrive as part of Jhamtse Gatsal's annual sponsor update, which contains a letter to you, new photos of the child, and a report on how the child is doing from a teacher, Ama la (house mother), or school administrator.

As we share sponsor letters electronically, we ask that letters be kept to a couple of pages in length. Children love seeing pictures of you, your family, and/or your daily life. The children love to hear about your family, things you like to do, and what the world looks like where you live. These are subjects that translate easily across different environments and cultures and to a younger age group.

When writing, remember English is not the children’s first language. Short and simple communications are most successful; Ama las and older students may help translate for the younger ones, but mostly the children love looking at the letters independently. Many of the smallest kids are still learning to write the alphabets of the three languages they study. Their native Monpa language has no written form.

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While we prioritize birthdays in our society, in Monpa culture, they customarily have little significance. Parents often don’t know the exact date of a child’s birth.

Sponsorship Commitment
Sponsorship Commitment

When you sponsor a child, you have an opportunity to build a relationship with your child through letters and photos.

Minimum sponsorships are $400 USD per year or $35 per month.

If you live in the US: Your contributions are tax-deductible under U.S. tax regulations. As a non-profit, Jhamtse International is tax exempt in the United States under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code.

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Sponsor a Child Today
Sponsor a Child Today

Your US tax-deductible contribution of just $35 a month connects a child living in extreme poverty with loving care and a quality education. Sponsoring a child will profoundly change the future for your child and other children, and will change your own life as well. Our sponsorship program is at the heart and soul of Jhamtse Gatsal. 

Our children arrive scared, neglected, abandoned, scrawny and subdued - with little hope for survival, let alone education. Many suffer from malnutrition and have run the risk of starvation. Access to clean water, reliable healthcare and preventative medicine in remote villages often means greater risk from even simple medical concerns. Your sponsorship will give these children a chance to heal. Your support provides:

  • A loving and compassionate home and family

  • Education

  • Nutritious food

  • Health and hygiene training

  • Medical and dental checkups

  • Support through higher education until their first day of work

Jennifer DeGlopperfemale, poetry, animals, 0903051, needs sponsors, age 16