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Life in the Tibetan refugee camp of Tezu in India is challenging: it’s located in a remote tropical forest teeming with malarial mosquitoes and Maoist rebels, and is so isolated that our field director had to cross the Brahmaputra River six times with his jeep tied to boats to get there.

AHF has supported the modest needs of this camp for the past 5 years—from nutritious food for the children to malarial test kits for the clinic. We’ve helped fourteen Tibetan families rebuild their homes after they were destroyed in a flash flood and built shelter for cows that couldn’t otherwise survive the heavy monsoon rains. We recently received a new request for cooking utensils for the Old Peoples Home in the camp. The objectives read: "to eradicate the problem of utensil scarcity in OPH" and "to minimize the problem faced by the cook while preparing meal". How could we refuse? AHF happily provided new pots, plates, and other utensils for the kitchen – along with the cooks’ salaries (the 27 elders are very, very grateful not to have to cook for themselves).

Helping Tibetans with the basic necessities so they can build a life for themselves is just one of the things we do at AHF. Sometimes the solution is complex and sometimes it is as simple as cooking utensils.

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