North East India Project

Summary of Project:

North East India Project works along side the villages of North East India to assist and support in the areas of healthcare, education, water resource, and economic development, while preserving their culture and basic way of life.

To pay via Check: Make check payable to The Mountain Fund. In the "For" section, be sure to designate this project. Mail to: The Mountain Fund
attn: North East India Project
139 Madison, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87108
USA

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How You Can Help:

• $20.00 will help one woman purchase weaving materials so that she may be able to weave and sell her products
• 40.00 helps provide for school supplies for one child for one year
• $75.00 helps pay for a childs text books for one school year
• $100.00 helps pay for travel and treatment for someone to receive much needed medical attention
• $175.00 will send one child to school for an entire school year
• $250.00 will send one child to one of our partnering doctors to receive a much needed surgery for their Cleft Palate

More Information About This Project:

Current Objectives:

• Healthcare: Providing health education and provision in the areas of health & hygiene, sanitation and disease
• Education: Assisting children and communities in the funding of scholastic education for those in need
• Water Resource: assisting in system for clean water sourced from rain water harvesting and water pump management from local rivers
• Economic Development: Helping communities to help themselves by providing resources for producing a supplemental income

Our Newest Objective:

"New Smiles" Fund

Over 30,000 children in India are born every year with cleft palates or cleft lips. Less than half of these children receive the treatment they need because they are too poor to either pay for the procedure, or to travel to places that offer these treatments free of cost. A cleft palate can be corrected or improved with a basic, two-step surgical procedure that takes as little as 45 minutes, on up to a more complex surgery of 5 to 6 hours. North East India Project has formed a new partnership with Smile Train in India to help provide this type of medical treatment for children in the areas where we work are working.

Where This Project Is Located:

This Project is located in Yimjenkimong Village in the state of Nagaland, India.

• The school consists of 92 children, in grades Kindergarten through 5th.
• There is only up to an 8th grade level education available in the village: K through 5th in the private school; K through 6th in the government school; and 7th-8th in the government middle school.
• The private school is built with bamboo woven interior walls, which rot and have to be replaced every few years; corrugated tin exterior walls and roof; and dirt floors.
• In 2007, only five elementary teachers were available for eight classes. They were forced to discontinue 6th grade and send the rest of the children for only half-days, to make time to teach the remaining seven classes.