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Draka Jueyme is a seven-year-old boy living in a remote village on the Tibetan Plateau in central China. He barely remembers when his mother, father, 11-year-old sister, and he lived in a tent on the high plateau. His father and everyone else he knew herded yak for a living. His mother became too sick and weak and could not care for herself or her children. She passed away from breast cancer. His father, unable to both take care of young children and herd the yak, sold the herd and got a menial job in road construction, while his mother looked after the children. Every day he would ride long distances on his newly purchased motorcycle to the job site. But he was unskilled in using the motorcycle and was involved in an accident with a truck. Draka’s father died at the scene. Draka and his sister continued living with their elderly grandmother in her tiny, run-down mud-brick house. She was unable to care for two energetic children or provide enough nutritious food for their growing bodies. Recently Buddhist monks in the village invited Draka and his sister to live at and attend the new orphan school. He is not as hungry now, but he wishes he had warm clothes and shoes without holes to wear in winter. At school he needs simple school supplies, like pencils and paper.
There are hundreds of orphans like Draka. A donation of HKD $6 dollars will support Draka or another orphan for a day. Give today.
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