How does the public welfare poverty alleviation project help Tibetan women in Yushu, Qinghai get rid of poverty?

Xiaolancuo, a 6-year-old from Yushu City, Qinghai Province, has a little confusion in her eyes. Because of poverty, her father had to go out to work, leaving her mother to do heavy housework at home. Sensible, she will finish a considerable part of housework to reduce her mother's burden. However, the mother's hard work has not brought much improvement to the increase of family income, and poverty still hangs over this family.

Yushu in Qinghai is an area with weak economic foundation. Youcheng Public Welfare, a non-governmental public welfare organization in Qinghai, launched a poverty alleviation project in Yushu called "Smell the warmth of 37 10 meters". The project targets 160 poor Tibetan women. Through empowering Tibetan tea-making skills training, setting up solidarity support groups and organizing women to carry out offline cultural exhibition activities, women have a sense of poverty alleviation.

Han Qing, the person in charge of Youcheng Public Welfare, said that Tibetan women in pastoral areas of Yushu City lack vocational and income-generating skills, and their disposable income is low. Due to the limitation of cultural and educational level, they lack the consciousness and ability of self-realization, and their participation in social development is low. Tibetan women in pastoral areas, in particular, bear heavy housework and face great difficulties in their survival and development. It is necessary to develop local women's awareness of economic independence, train their labor skills, promote their self-development, improve their self-confidence, and let them realize their value in life and gain more rights and freedoms.

"In Tibetan areas, people's diet is mainly meat, and Tibetan tea has the effects of relieving greasy, anti-radiation and supplementing vitamins, and Tibetans have always said that' three days without meat, one day without tea'. Statement. However, the reconstruction of Yushu after the earthquake, the change of people's lifestyle and the increasing homogenization of culture make Tibetan tea as an intangible cultural heritage face the risk of lack of successors. Han Qing said that the implementation of this project is in line with the empowerment of Tibetan women in poverty alleviation and the protection and inheritance of Tibetan tea culture.

In Xialaxiu Town, Yushu City, Qinghai Province, 160 local poor Tibetan women received Tibetan tea skills training, which changed them from housewives to Tibetan women workers and increased their income.

"I have never participated in such training before. I can only cook at home and take care of the elderly and children. Through the explanation and training of volunteers from non-profit organizations, I learned the packaging of Tibetan tea, and I can make money by putting tea bags in the future, which can reduce the burden on my family. " Tibetan woman Jin Yang said.