Earthquake in Qinghaï Last April 14th, 2010 a new earthquake has shacked a Western province of China: Qinghaï province. The magnitude was 7.1 on Richter scale. The Yushu County was one of the very badly affected areas. On April 16, the reported number of deaths reached 791 and around 10,000 persons were heavily injured. Of course, a lot of houses collapsed and most of the people faced a lack of food and have no place where to sleep. Our partner, the CDC of Tibet Autonomous Region, sent immediately a rescue team led by the Director. Together with him, we decided to provide “tsampa” to 2 villages of Yushu county. The 2 administrative villages were Guoqing and Ganda villages. They included 22 natural villages populated with 700 households and 2447 people. During 3 days, the KBDF team bought 7 tons of “tsampa” in Lhasa and on Sunday 25th, Mrs Yangzom from KBDF left for Yushu County with a big truck carrying all the tsampa.  As soon as she reached the place after a trip of 3 days, the CDC team helped her and together they distributed during 2 days the tsampa directly to all the people.  Actually we are still monitoring the situation. This “small” help was again possible thanks to your support. We would like to sincerely thank you to have made that possible.

Summer 2009 in the U.S   Two young “fundraisers” bought rocks and sold them to raise money for KBDF.

KBD - Prevention & Treatment - 25 mai 2009   On May 25th, 2009 the KBD Foundation together with her partner: the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of Tibet Autonomous Region (T.A.R.) held a conference in Lhasa. Several persons of the Regional Health Bureau and the Foreign Affairs Bureau of T.A.R were attending the meeting.     The objective of the conference was to present and to discuss the outcome of the 4 years project (including the research part).   The different topics were: -  New KBD prevalence map of T.A.R. -  Food consumption of children in KBD endemic rural areas of Central Tibet -  Rickets in young children living in a KBD endemic area in Central Tibet -  Effects of a combined micronutrient supplementation on Kashin-Beck        disease in Tibet -  Mycology results: 2004 - 2007 -  Future plan for prevention and treatment of KBD in T.A.R.   The main conclusion was that improvement of health and nutrition of children living in KBD endemic area remains a priority On October 6th 2008, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit the south-west of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The epicentre was in Damxung county which is around 80 Km far from Lhasa. The earthquake affected also part of Nyemo county, including Shume valley where our team is working since more than 15 years.   Ten people died and around 50 were severely wounded. They were treated in the public and military hospitals.   A lot of houses and schools collapsed and around 5000 people had to live in tents during the winter including the students of the boarding schools.   KBD Foundation provided warm clothes, gloves, hats and shoes to the students of 2 boarding schools.     This action was possible thanks to your financial support!   We deeply thank you on behalf of the victims!

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