Revolving Sheep Bank, Tibet
Economic self-sufficiency for Western Tibet’s poorest nomads
Tibetan woman, ewe and lamb
Courtesy Cynthia Beall and Melvyn C Goldstein
NEW!
Old photos of Tibetan nomadic life
The Goal
- Provide poor Tibetan nomad families with credit access, enabling a five-year loan of reproductive age ewes, thus fostering economic self-sufficiency and reducing inequality
- Inject funds into the local economy by purchasing ewes from local, wealthier nomads
- Create a self-perpetuating sheep bank that will continue to loan sheep to poor households after the initial five-year period
BODHI steps in where traditional aid organisations fear to tread. We take chances. We welcome the unusual, the risky, the unglamorous, the non PC (politically correct). Bring it on!
Professor Melvyn C Goldstein had been refused funding from traditional aid organisations for the Revolving Sheep Bank when he approached us in 2000. BODHI's funding began the following year.
Please visit:
Revolving Sheep Bank: Phase 2
Revolving Sheep Bank Phase 3
2 ways in which you can help
Purchase sheep @ US$30/A$32 each and receive this certificate. Click here for larger image.
OR
Place an article on the Revolving Sheep Bank in a newspaper or magazine: local, national, international, school or special interest
