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Our magazine, the "ROKPA Times", appears several times per year and reports in detail on current and planned ROKPA projects in Tibet and Nepal.
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No. 2 / June 2014 / Volume 34
Annual Report 2013
ROKPA TIMES
Thank you
To our contributors
We thank our donors and all the foundations, parishes and state institutions that supported us during 2013.
We have received 3,706,100 Swiss francs in total
(US $ 4,130,000). It is your generous donations that
enable us to annually educate over ten thousand persons
per year, mainly children and young people, and to help
thousands more in other ways. Even the smallest
donation makes a difference and has a positive effect on
people’s lives. So thank you on behalf of the school
children, students, homeless and sick people who have
all been helped by your kindness through ROKPA.
To our volunteers
It is one of ROKPA’s principles to keep admi-nistrative structures as streamlined as possi-ble. We can then ensure the effective use of any donated funds.
This is only possible thanks to the many ROKPA volun-
teers around the world. Our volunteers have provided
27,533 hours of work in 2013. Calculated at an hourly
wage of 30 francs (US $ 33), this is equivalent to an
impressive total of 825,990 francs (US $ 908,590). So a
big thank you at this point to our volunteers for their
committed work.
Hours of voluntary work in 2013
4,182 hours voluntary work at head office
3,980 hours unpaid work on management board
13,315 hours unpaid work in ROKPA country offices
356 hours unpaid overtime by permanent and part-time employees
5,700 hours voluntary work in the soup kitchen in Nepal
TOTAL 27,533 volunteer hours in 2013
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2013: Financial year figures
Donated income
ROKPA received donations of 3,706,100 Swiss francs
(US $ 4,130,000) for the different projects in 2013.
This corresponds to an increase of 7.5% compared to the
previous year (2012: 3,448,314 francs /
US $ 3,841,400).
Donations spent
1,529,496 francs (US $ 1,703,850) of donated money
were used for project work, including projects in India and
travel costs. In the Tibetan regions of China the project
situation has been postponed for the time being owing to
the passing away of Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche, the
Presi dent of ROKPA INTERNATIONAL. Project expenditure
has therefore fallen somewhat in 2013.
The full annual statement can be found at www.rokpa.org/annualreport.
58,4 % Private Sponsors
27,9 % Foundations
10,9 % Companies
1,8 % Churches
0,8 % Public Sector
0,2 % Legacies
80 % Project Expenses
11 % Administration
9 % Fundraising
Number of donors 2013: 2,001 (ROKPA Switzerland)
Total donated income 2013: CHF 3,706,100
Number of projects 2013: 120
Total project expenditure 2013: CHF 1,529,496
Origin of donations, ROKPA Switzerland Use of donated funds
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Tibetan areas of China
ROKPA supports people in need in the Tibetan areas of China, in particular in the remote areas of the Tibetan plateau, where living conditions are extremely hard. ROKPA focuses on education, basic medical care and the conservation of Tibetan culture.
Education – for example the Dechen Primary
School Project
114 pupils attend the Khünpen School in Dechen.
ROKPA supports 54 of these pupils and 3 teachers. The
decision about which pupils to support is made together
with the headteacher; children who have lost one or both
parents and those from the poorest backgrounds are
given priority. The youngest are 4 or 5 years of age and
attend preschool. Most of the children stay in the school
during the week and go home at the weekends. One of
the teachers supported by ROKPA, Tamdin Tashi, was
himself a pupil at this school in the late 1990s and now
he is teaching there.
Medicine – for example the Kepcha Gön
Medical Practice Project
Dr. Ani Yeshe is a nun and the chief and only doctor in
the Kepcha Gön Clinic in Nangchen, which is attached to
the nunnery that bears the same name. She provides for
the treatment of the nuns there and in surrounding
nunneries and monasteries, as well as for many patients
in the local population. She cares for and treats patients
in over 7,000 consultations per year. The sparseness of
the region‘s population means very long and arduous
journeys to the nearest doctor. The procurement of a car
suitable for off-road driving is therefore planned for 2014,
in order to be able to react with shorter delays.
Conservation of Culture – for example the Palyul
Woodblock Printing Shop Project
The traditional art of woodblock printing does not need
electricity or modern machines. It is included on
UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Huma-
nity. In cooperation with the few traditional printing shops
still active, ROKPA collects woodblocks and uses them
for printing again, where demand exists. Young people
are also trained in cutting the woodblocks, in order to
conserve this unique printing art for future generations.
This project therefore not only helps to safeguard
valuable knowledge and a part of Tibetan culture, but
also creates jobs at the same time. ROKPA makes the
prints available to students and universities free of
charge.
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Expenditure in the Tibetan areas of China 2013
The three central points of education, medical care and conservation of culture form the largest items of expenditure. ROKPA has in particular promoted the initiation and long-term support of several urgently needed Medical Centres in sparsely populated regions in the past year.
9,6 % Conservation of culture
CHF 109,335
20,6 % Medical Care
CHF 233,578
0,8 % Orphans and
Street Children
CHF 8,690
8,4 % Other
CHF 95,034
60,6 % Education
CHF 685,681
Number of projects 2013: 98
Total project expenditure 2013: CHF 1,132,318
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Nepal
In Nepal, ROKPA mainly supports children from the poorest backgrounds and single mothers. Former street children find a new home in the Children’s Home, mothers learn a craft in the Women’s Workshop, to enable them to earn a living. Never again will these children or women resort to return to begging in the street again.
ROKPA Children’s Home
During 2013, 52 children were living in ROKPA’s
Children’s Home, most of them between 6 and 16
years old. Girls and boys each account for about 50%
(at the last status update at the end of 2013 there were
28 boys and 24 girls). Five children were admitted
during 2013, while six children left the Home. The
number of solar panels on the roof has been increased
this year. They are now providing the house with
electricity in addition to hot water, enabling the children
to study, read and play at the beginning and end of
each day, something that has not always been possible
before because interruptions to the power supply are
frequent in Nepal. These so-called blackouts are now
bridged with stored energy from the solar panels.
ROKPA Women’s Workshop
The ROKPA women’s workshop is a social business
project. Its aim is to give poor and homeless mothers and
their children a better future. ROKPA has been offering
vocational training to women since 1996. Practice-orien-
ted training enables the women to use their skills in an
effective and productive way. The project is so successful
that ROKPA is currently looking for partners to finance a
new building and to assist with marketing. This will
enable ROKPA to offer even more women a secure job.
ROKPA Guest House
The ROKPA Guest House is situated only a few meters
from the Children’s Home and the Women’s Workshop, in
a central location close to the famous Stupa in Boud-
hanath. In 2013, it was partially renovated and the
rooms were newly refurbished. It is well worth a stay
– particularly as the Children‘s Home benefits directly
from any profit made by the Guest House. You can find
more information on the ROKPA Guest House on the
website: www.rokpaguesthouse.org.
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2013 Project Expenditures in Nepal
ROKPA’s Children’s Home – established for former street children – remains ROKPA’s flagship project in Nepal. For years, the Soup Kitchen has provided poor people with two hot meals per day. The Women’s Workshop offers mothers a job and therefore a secure income. New projects, such as the cultivation of organic vegetables, are being developed.
Number of projects 2013: 7
Total project expenditure 2013: CHF 305,667
3,3 % Women’s Workshop
CHF 10,000
5,2 % Soup Kitchen /
Medical Tent
CHF 16,000
1,5 % Orphans and
Street Children
CHF 4,649
21,5 % Other
CHF 65,679
14,7 % Guest House
CHF 45,000
53,8 % Children’s Home
CHF 164,339
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South Africa/Zimbabwe
ROKPA’s African projects all stem from initiatives by former pupils of ROKPA’s Presi-dent Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche, who died in 2013. They plan and implement projects in cooperation with the local ROKPA organisa-tions. The high prevalence of HIV/AIDS presents a major challenge both in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Nursery in Zimbabwe
AIDS orphans and children from the poorest social
conditions attend the Chikukwa nursery in a slum of
Harare, the capital city. The three to seven-year olds
receive breakfast and lunch in addition to being given the
opportunity to learn and to play. Every day, around 50
children are cared for in this way. In many cases, the
food they receive in the nursery is the only food they can
get.
Soup Kitchen in South Africa
The soup kitchen is organised all year round in two
different locations in the centre of Johannesburg, and is
open every Tuesday. All logistics, such as the procure-
ment of ingredients, the preparation, loading and
transport of food to the site and the recruitment of soup
kitchen volunteers is handled by volunteers. A tasty
vegetable soup with rice is prepared and served with
peanut butter sandwiches. Hundreds of poor people form
long queues at both sites; frequently, there is not enough
food to cater for all the hungry people.
HIV Self-help Groups in Zimbabwe
The Tara ROKPA therapy enables people with HIV to
improve their living conditions by offering a range of
workshops and self-help groups. In addition, drugs are
dispensed to people infected with HIV, helping them to
contain the consequences of their disease. Activities have
included the organisation of 30 therapy training work-
shops over a period of 3 years, with each workshop
having around 25 participants.
Number of projects 2013: 14
Total project expenditure 2013: CHF 38,373
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169 Francs (190 US $) are
required to enable an orphan to
go to primary school for one
year and to provide accommo-
dation and board.
DONATION TARGETS
568 Francs (639 US $)
enable a Tibetan youth to
study at university for one year.
For 131 Francs (147 US $),
10 people can receive
traditional Tibetan medical
treatment for one month.
A one-year literacy course
for 10 adult women costs
530 Francs (596 US $).
77 Francs (87 US $) gives
a nun in a nunnery enough to
eat for one year.
A field worker in ROKPA’s organic garden is paid 157 Francs (177 US $) for three months.
A former street child can
go to school for one year for
545 Francs (613 US $).
The monthly health care
costs for all the children in the
Children’s Home run to 219
Francs (246 US $).
A trained seamstress in the
Women‘s Workshop receives a
salary of 260 Francs
(292 US $) for three months.
Offering food for 100
people in the Johannesburg
Soup Kitchen costs 153 Francs
(172 US $) per day.
The school fees for a
disabled child in Zimbabwe is
310 Francs (349 US $) for one
term.
Medical treatment for 10
people in Zimbabwe costs
356 Francs (400 US $).
The salary of a teacher in
the nursery is 475 Francs
(534 US $) for three months.
ROKPA Donation matrix 2013
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4
8
11
7
2
5
9
12
3
6
10
13
4
1
8
11
7
5
2
9
12
6
3
10
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NUTRITION
EDUCATION
CULTURE
MEDICINE
AND MEDICINAL
PLANTS
WOMEN
AND CHILDREN
TIBETAN AREAS OF CHINA
DO
NAT
ION
FO
CU
SES
NEPAL AFRICA
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Administrative Office ROKPA
The ROKPA INTERNATIONAL umbrella organisation consists of 18 ROKPA inter-national representatives worldwide and is responsible for the organisation and actuali-sation of all ROKPA projects. The ROKPA Switzerland Association is engaged in fundrai-sing in Switzerland. These two organisations are both situated in Zürich and the staff members of the administrative offices are employed by ROKPA INTERNATIONAL and ROKPA Switzerland share the cost by contri-buting 50% each.
Main Secretary Corinna Biasiutti (since October 2013)
Pia Schneider
Fundraising Gabriele Lenk
Employees Jeannette Alison
Brigitte Böhle (until October 2013)
Romano Renner (since October 2013)
Thomas Stettler
Volunteers Harald Ammeter, Manuel Bassi, Anna-Katharina Bosshard,
Robert Diener, Piroska Gajdon, Maya Helbling, Monika
Imfeld, Lotti Kobler, Tereza Konate, Ivo Loretz, Marlis
Lüscher, Georgios Mazarkis, Laura Munzel, Ciro Parlato,
Amrita Prasad, Romano Renner, Bea Schmutz,
Janusz Skonieczny, Margrit Stahel, Gisela Weisner,
Elisabeth Weiss
Translations:
Sian Edwards, Bettina Grieser Johns, Anne Jungi,
Yael Katz, Katrin Klein, Elaine Knoerich, Chris Michalski,
Susanne Reiche, Karin Stutz, David Tonge
Executive Board ROKPA INTERNATIONAL Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche (President)
Lea Wyler (Vice-President)
Gerry Leumann
Catherine Brown
Andrea Widmer
Pim Willems
Executive Board ROKPA Switzerland Gerry Leumann (President)
Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Lea Wyler
Andreas Vollenweider
Gelong Thubten
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In order to help people in need in the most remote regions of the world, ROKPA depends on your support. Whether you make a single donation, collect money for ROKPA at your workplace, become a regular donor for a particular project or include our international charity in your will would help us to continue our work. We thank you from our hearts. Being a registered charity, ROKPA is exempt of tax, this enables you to deduct your dona-tion from your income before calculating your tax.
What ROKPA needs most urgently
Most of all you are helping ROKPA and the people we
support by making a ‘free donation’. What is a ‘free
donation’? It is one where we can place the contributi-
on exactly where the greatest need happens to be at
that moment. If a particular project is very close to your
heart, you can also make a commitment for that
specific project.
Project Sponsorship
Project Sponsorships have the advantage that your
donation goes specifically towards an issue that is
important to you. At the same time we remain flexible
enough to use your donation within the project exactly
where it is most urgently needed. At the moment we
offer 4 different Project Sponsorships:
Education of Disadvantaged Children
Medical Basic Care and Emergency care
Women’s Fund
Preservation of Tibetan Culture
Application and more info
www.rokpa.org/donate-a-project
Legacies
Many donors who support people in need want to
continue their support even after their death. The easiest
way to do this is through a legacy, which means a fixed
sum specified in a will. Here ROKPA’s tax exemption is
also applicable so that legacies will go towards our
projects without any tax loss. Please feel free to contact
us for further information about this.
Donations for Specific Occasions
You are about to celebrate your birthday or an anniver-
sary and do not know what to ask for as a present? Then
take up the example of many of our donors and ask your
family and friends to donate to ROKPA in your name.
Losing a loved one is very painful and means an
enormous loss for all relatives and friends. In their
memory to continue his or her social engagement in a
sustainable way, make a donation on their behalf to
ROKPA’s charitable projects. If you wish, our ROKPA
children will write the name of the deceased on our
memory wall at the entrance of the ROKPA Children’s
Home in Nepal.
We are very happy to answer any further questions
about how to make your donation by phone
+41 44 262 68 88 or E-Mail info@rokpa.org.
For Switzerland you may order payment slips with one
click here: www.rokpa.org/payment-slips
This is how you can help
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Thanks to ROKPA, many children and young people in Tibet and Nepal – at present nearly
10,000 – receive an education every year. This is only possible with your help.
Thanks to your donations, we can exert a positive influence on countless lives. Over 55 children
currently live at the ROKPA Children’s Home in Kathmandu. We provide vocational training at our
workshop for mothers who have fallen on hard times and help them to stand on their own two feet.
With your financial support we can provide effective support to the poorest of the poor. Please help
us to give them a better chance of leading a dignified life.
You can make a donation to this account:
455090-11-1, Credit Suisse, CH-8070 Zurich, Switzerland
IBAN CH73 0483 5045 5090 1100 1, clearing number 4835, BIC CRESCHZZ80A
Thank you!
In Switzerland, donations to ROKPA are exempt from tax.ROKPA has been ZEWO certified since 2004.
Giving a better chance for lifeSMS donation
of up to CHF 99.–
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(amount, numbers only)
to 488.
Example for donation
of CHF 20.–:
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