Ayang Rinpoche asked some of his Western students in 2004 to visit his monastery area in Eastern Tibet to try to find out why so many women were dying in childbirth. A small group of medical and scientific professionals began going each year to Rima to see what they could learn and try to help improve the conditions there.
Since that time, we were able to build a small clinic with living quarters for two doctors and their families, bring electricity and water to the clinic, purchase an ambulance, ultrasound machine and other medical equipment, provide training for doctors and childbirth educators, and begin a program to distribute birthing kits to local families.
Even though these annual visits were suspended during the Coronavirus Pandemic, we have continued to raise money for the clinic, and send funds to pay for salaries for the doctors, clinic equipment and upkeep, medicines and supplies.
Please help us continue this important effort to save mothers' and children's lives and improve health in this rural Tibetan community.
Thank you, and may all motherly sentient beings benefit!
