Founded in 1986, and registered as a Non-Profit Association

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

, AMCHI was dedicated to support humanitarian projects in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, and mainly with Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

an refugee camp

Refugee camp

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people may live in any one single camp. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organizations, or NGOs.Refugee camps are generally set up in an impromptu...

s.

Since, AMCHI has evolved and is now seeking, organizing and supporting projects in different fields and countries. Based on a volunteer system, all people involved in the different projects and in the everyday life of the association, are doing it on a free base. The incomes are invested in the different actions, keeping the different “charges” at the minimum cost.
Amchi's actions can be divided in 3 categories. The past, actual and future actions.

Past actions

1. In India and Nepal:

• From 1989 till 2007:

Humanitarian and medical actions:

• Opening of infirmaries, dispensary
  Dispensary
  A dispensary is an office in a school, hospital or other organization that dispenses medications and medical supplies. In a traditional dispensary set-up a pharmacist dispenses medication as per prescription or order form....
  
  , a small hospital
  Hospital
  A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
  
  , follow up of the patients in different places (Dip.Tse.Chok.Ling, Kopan, Sera-Jhe).
• Training of medical and care staff, education about hygiene
  Hygiene
  Hygiene refers to the set of practices perceived by a community to be associated with the preservation of health and healthy living. While in modern medical sciences there is a set of standards of hygiene recommended for different situations, what is considered hygienic or not can vary between...
  
  .
• Building of shower
  Shower
  A shower is an area in which one bathes underneath a spray of water.- History :...
  
  s and dispensary for a school of 260 children.

(Among the official helps : Rotary Club, pharmacy

Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

 of CHG of Cahors, Ministry of youth and sports, pharmacist without borders, …)

• Start of a program about hygiene and construction of showers in quarters of Sera-Jhe monastery.

Every construction goes with explanations about hygiene, health

Health

Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

, nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....

. To give to adults and children a better understanding of why and how stopping wrong habits.

Sponsorship system:

• Since 1991, AMCHI has been setting up a sponsorship system to ensure proper living conditions to children and young adults in India. Originally dedicated to the help of young children in the Tibetan refugees' camps of South India
  South India
  South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...
  
  , this system now helps Children in Tibet and Nepal
  Nepal
  Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
  
  .
  

2. In France:

• Organization of holiday camps from 1994 till 1999:

The main motivation was to provide to families having financial problems some possibilities to send their children in good conditions, into camps respecting educational values, at the lowest cost possible. For all holiday

Holiday

A Holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or a religious group have deemed that observance is warranted. It is generally an official or unofficial observance of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations...

s, and ages going from 7 till 15 years old. The teams were chosen according to educative principles, the groups of children were small, with one adult for 4-5 children.

• Educational activities, and help in homework:

To help children to find other activities than wandering in front of television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 or in street during week-ends or free days. And help the ones having parents working late. Prices were the lowest possible and according to the financial possibilities of the family.

• Collects of clothes and items to help families in need.
• Distribution of cinema
  Film
  A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
  
   tickets to families registered to social services.
• Set up of a babysitting
  Babysitting
  Babysitting is the practice of temporarily caring for a child on behalf of the child's parents. Babysitting is commonly performed as an odd job by teenagers for extra money.-General:...
  
   system :

With prices in direct relations with incomes and financial possibilities of the family.

3. Past actions in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

:

• In 2000-2001-2002:

Volunteer work in Tsimbalina hospital

Hospital for street and orphans children, from few months up to 15 years old.

Help of the medical and social team. Medical and single use equipment (stethoscope

Stethoscope

The stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to the internal sounds of an animal body. It is often used to listen to lung and heart sounds. It is also used to listen to intestines and blood flow in arteries and veins...

, otoscope

Otoscope

thumb|right|200px|Otoscope - Image of an otoscope thumb|200px|Anatomy of the human ear.thumb|200px|Right tympanic membrane as seen through a speculum.An Otoscope or auriscope is a medical device which is used to look into the ears...

, compress, needles, special pen for taking blood, …), as well as medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

, and small financial donation

Donation

A donation is a gift given by physical or legal persons, typically for charitable purposes and/or to benefit a cause. A donation may take various forms, including cash, services, new or used goods including clothing, toys, food, and vehicles...

s.

4. In Tibet:

• In August 2003:

Visit and organization of the local clinic of Kharnang area in Kham

Kham

Kham , is a historical region covering a land area largely divided between present-day Tibetan Autonomous Region and Sichuan province, with smaller portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces of China. During the Republic of China's rule over mainland China , most of the region was...

.

Setting of a technical support

Technical support

Technical support or tech support refers to a range of services by which enterprises provide assistance to users of technology products such as mobile phones, televisions, computers, software products or other electronic or mechanical goods...

 to promote Kharnang's project, study and planning of indoor organization of the clinic

Donation of medicines and little material for the clinic .

• Specific action : “For a sick child”

In 1999-2000 financial help for a Russian child suffering from leukemia

Leukemia

Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

.

Actual actions

1. In India:

• Existing since 1991:

A sponsoring system, established mainly into Tibetan refugees camps, in order that children and youngest get good food, toothpaste

Toothpaste

Toothpaste is a paste or gel dentifrice used with a toothbrush as an accessory to clean and maintain the aesthetics and health of teeth. Toothpaste is used to promote oral hygiene: it serves as an abrasive that aids in removing the dental plaque and food from the teeth, assists in suppressing...

, etc… and medical care. With the assurance that money is for children and adults in needs, and who will use it properly, by sending money directly to a monk

Monk

A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

 in whom we trust.

Actually sponsors are helping 60 children and adults.

2. In Russia:

• AMCHI is organizing regularly sending of medicines, clothes and little medical equipment
  Medical equipment
  Medical equipment is designed to aid in the diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of medical conditions.-Types:There are several basic types:* Diagnostic equipment includes medical imaging machines, used to aid in diagnosis...
  
   for Tsimbalina Hospital and Vera orphanage
  Orphanage
  An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...
  
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3. In Tibet:

• Many projects are existing in Kharnang, revolving around health, education and service to old people. AMCHI started to find sponsors for the children the more in needs, and is looking forward to raise enough funds to help support the little dispensary, education
  Education
  Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
  
   and old age
  Old age
  Old age consists of ages nearing or surpassing the average life span of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle...
  
   projects.
  

4. In Slovenia:

• AMCHI is organizing a centralization of informations of needs from organizations and institutions and collecting items from private or corporate sources and redistributing them.
  

Future actions - Projects

1. In Russia:

Because children of Russia will be the adults of tomorrow, AMHCI tries to promote the idea and principle of giving them good educative values, while giving them a safe environment to grow.

• Practical work inside the hospital helping to rebuilt and make places nicer for children, change old and smelly furniture
  Furniture
  Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating and sleeping in beds, to hold objects at a convenient height for work using horizontal surfaces above the ground, or to store things...
  
  , mattress
  Mattress
  A mattress is a manufactured product to sleep or lie on, consisting of resilient materials and covered with an outer fabric or ticking. In the developed world it is typically part of a bed set and is placed upon a foundation....
  
  es, etc…

"Sometimes big investment

Investment

Investment has different meanings in finance and economics. Finance investment is putting money into something with the expectation of gain, that upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security for the principal amount, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time...

s are not needed to change the environment of children, but energy and ideas directed in good ways. Rooms of the hospital are old, smelly and with holes in the walls. The ground is old and difficult to clean. Children, babies, are often putting in their mouths items collected from the ground, full of germs

Microorganism

A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters, or no cell at all...

, and are constantly sick, with running nose, up to hepatitis

Hepatitis

Hepatitis is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The name is from the Greek hepar , the root being hepat- , meaning liver, and suffix -itis, meaning "inflammation"...

 and meningitis

Meningitis

Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...

."

• Help to sponsor the wages of a nurse, with qualifications and willing to work with difficult children.

"As for now, old nurses have rather bad habits, lack of education and psychological training, and no wish at all to be bothered by those street kids! Well trained nurse, willing to help those children would give a new 'impulse' and hopefully will slowly change the situation within the nurses' team…"

• Collect items, medicine and clothes to send them through a 'secure custom-free channel', to give a complementary help, during all year…As some medicines in Russia are very costly, and sometimes difficult to find.
  

2. In India:

• Follow-up of the existent actions, sponsorship system.

AMCHI is regularly visiting India, to see the changes inside the families and in the different places where we are sponsoring children, get new information about them as well as about children waiting for sponsors, and bring parcels from sponsors, and items for clinic and dispensaries.

AMCHI sponsors education for some children, and pay the expenses of one handicaped girl.

• Help in Nepal, for existing dispensary (education, follow up of patients).

As some dispensary or little clinics have some times difficulties to find long-terms volunteers or workers, the best possibility is often to teach local volunteers, monks, and to control punctually their works, needs. And of course to help them to complete their training.

• Help in South India for better water supply. As in many places in India, water is often a problem. Sometimes far from the place were people are living, and of poor quality. Some simple solutions exist, yet there is the necessity of investments, to by pumps and filters, and built simple water systems.
  

3. In Tibet:

• Follow-up of the existent actions, sponsorship system.
• Organization of events to promote the difficulties of the region, and their needs.
  

4. In Slovenia:

• Follow-up of the existent actions, sponsorship system.