• $50 pays for a basic box
• $100 pays for a teacher-training program in a village
• $150 pays one of our interns through teacher training (with a college degree after 3 years)
• $1,000 will put a book in the hands of every child in Ladakh's 2 districts, and frameworks into school districts in 4 countries across the Himalaya. Books are also used in a Canadian schools program in Alberta.

What you get from helping

• Major donors are acknowledged on all educational materials (gifts of $800 or more/year)
• All major donors receive copies of materials and CD frameworks (to reproduce materials). We'll provide information on the villages and programs you help, and web-quality images to inform clients of your good work
• High-profile exposure of donors as our work is being featured in a Canadian TV documentary in 2005
• All contributions are fully tax deductible according to US and Canadian tax laws

You will also know that you are helping:

• Areas of the Himalaya where other agencies simply find the going too difficult
• Communities devastated by recent wars
• Where people are eager to change and develop, and the local governments fully support this, but simply lack the resources to get started
• Where only 50% of children attended school and 95-100% of parents were illiterate before joining us in this work
• Where 90% of your contribution goes directly into the neediest villages and is jointly controlled by everyone in the community
• Programs that are highly effective, copied by other international NGOs and sustainable through training young locals to continue our work in the future.