Send
a Yak to School
Kincaple
House, Kincaple, St Andrews, KY16 9SH, UK
Registered
Charity (Scotland) No: SC036202
200 Walnut
Ave, St-Lambert, Quebec, J4P 2T1, Canada
Registered
Charity No: 88353 0511 RR0001
[Please see important note at bottom of page]
Plateau
Perspectives has been involved in the establishment of local village schools
making education accessible for nomad children. They are run by the local
communities. Boys and girls are now able to go to school for the first time.
School Yak
Herds
The schools
need their own herds of yak and sheep to provide food for children and teachers
and an income (from the sale of young animals) for school maintenance.
In order to be
sustainable in the long-term, the local schools must increase the size of their
herds. Recent tax system changes mean they now need to be self-sufficient.
Plateau
Perspectives will provide yak and sheep to increase the herds to a sustainable
size. Animals will be bought locally and given to the schools to add to their
existing herds. This will ensure the schools' long-term sustainability and
enable nomad children to receive an education.
Give yak (or
sheep)
- the alternative gift
Giving an
animal to a school will transform the lives of nomad children for many years by
enabling them to gain an education. Once bought, the animal will provide years
of education.
You can give
either a whole animal or part of an animal:
For each gift
you will receive a Gift
Card together with details of your
gift (information sheet for
Sheep or
Yak) to keep or send to the recipient of your gift.
Details on how to buy a yak or sheep are included in
the brochure
(download
here).
The cost of your gift includes the costs of getting the animals to the schools.
Both yak and sheep are needed by the schools. In the event that the proportions
given are inappropriate, Plateau Perspectives may use your gift for the most
appropriate animals to enable the schools to build sustainable herds.
Downloads:
Yak for Schools brochure
Yak Info Sheet
Sheep Info Sheet
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NEW
- Important information regarding the Yak to School
project: Due to recent changes in local educational policy, the future
of the village schools supported by this project is no longer certain
beyond the next couple years. We still encourage you to support Plateau
Perspectives' work with donations of equivalent value to the purchase of
a yak or sheep, or a portion thereof. However such donations will now be
applied to a variety of community development projects and related
costs, not to the purchase of a yak or sheep per se. We will
still endeavour to apply all funds raised under the Yak to
School project up to the present time (March 2009) to
their original intended purposes - this note applies only to donations
received hereto forth.
Thank you for your understanding and your
continued support.
To
download a gift aid donation form, please click
here.
