Facilitating Healthcare
Development In The Most Remote Areas Of Tibet.
"May I be the doctor and the medicine And may I be
the nurse For all sick beings in the world Until
everyone is healed."
Shantideva.
(Trans Stephen Batchelor) "A Guide to the
Bodhisattva's Way of Life."
Chronology:
A Chronology of Field Trips & Other Events
2001 July/August:
Fact finding trip to Dzongsar/Meshu
area (Diane Barker and Oga Thingo) 2002 Sept/Oct: Fact finding
trip to Dzongsar/Meshu
area (Diane Barker and Oga Thingo.) This was the trip when Diane
became most directly aware of the lack of health care in this
area. She was introduced to the family of a woman who was dying
in childbirth. 2003 Sept/Oct: Heart of
Asia founded. 2004 June/July: Research
trip to Dzongsar/Meshu area
by Youdon Lhamo and David Burgess. Report
produced.
2005 August: First formal
10 day training programme
initiated in Dzongsar by Frances Howland. Report
produced.
"Twice I departed in secret,
as dawn broke, leading my small caravan across the immense
Tibetan solitudes; barren deserts and grassland deserts,
equally silent, wild, mysterious; harsh, dramatic uplands,
realm of dreams, terra incognita…"
Alexandra David-Neel:
"My Journey to Lhasa."
2006 July:
Heart of Asia achieves Charitable Status 2006 September:
Two week training programme conducted in Dzongsar by
Youdon Lhamo. Report to follow. Assessment of other ways
Heart of Asia can assist local health needs by Director
Diane Barker.
