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.

Zomer 2009 in de Verenigde Staten   Twee jonge "fundraisers" gekocht rotsen en verkocht ze van geld voor 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. Op 6 Oktober 2008 trof een aardbeving met een kracht van 6.6 op de schaal van Richter het Zuid-Westen van de Autonome Regio van Tibet. Het epicentrum lag in het Damxung kanton dat zich ongeveer op 80 km van de hoofdstad Lhasa bevindt. De beving veroorzaakte ook schade in een deel van het Nyemo kanton, meerbepaald in de Shume vallei waar ons team reeds meer dan 15 jaar werkzaam is   Tien mensen overleefden de aardschok niet. Er waren 50 zwaargewonden die in openbare en militaire ziekenhuizen verzorgd werden.   Scholen en huizen waren ingestort of staan op instorten. Ongeveer 5000 mensen hebben de winter in tenten doorgebracht waarronder ook studenten die in een kostschool leven.   KBD Foundation hebben warme klederen en ondergoed aangekocht om de studenten van twee kostscholen te beschermen tegen de vrieskou. Door uw financiële steun was deze actie mogelijk.   Het team en wij danken U in naam van de slachtoffers van deze natuurramp!