Books for Mar-khams and Ban-shul Tibetan Village Primary Schools Author: Nangchukja (Snying lcags rgyal) and Kevin Stuart Date of Report: 2008 Location: Ban-shul Village Primary School, Sum-mdo Township and Mar-khams Village Primary School, Go-mang Township, Mangra (Guinan) County, Mtsho lho (Hainan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. PR China. Subject: Tibetan Village Library--Education Tibetan Rural Education Funder: German Embassy Details: A total of 3,100 books and other teaching materials are directly benefiting 568 Tibetan students and 31 teachers with the German Embassy's contribution of 48,000 RMB plus a local contribution of 4,300 RMB. The school students have access to these materials on a daily basis, which provides them to improve their ability in the Tibetan written language and in Chinese, and also to know much more about the outside world. Additionally, teachers have access to reference materials that allow them to be better prepared and give better lessons.