Every family has a donkey, an invaluable part to the well-being of the family. Some farmers used keep 10 to 15 donkeys and run a business hiring them out.

Spring Planting is very late this year as it has been a very cold winter with a lot of snow still lingering in the fields.

It has been a severe winter in the Spiti Valley, with a lot of snow and freezing cold wind. The roads were dangerous and blocked with deep snow.

A year of consolidation for Spiti Projects. The Community Centre is now up and running. The Craft Centre is now fully supplied with some excellent goods to buy.

Losar is a festival in Tibetan Buddhism. The holiday is celebrated on various dates depending on location and tradition. The holiday is a new year’s festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, in 2019 it is February 5th to 7th in the Gregorian calendar.

The Spiti Valley is a remote valley in the Himalayas bordering on Tibet and known as one of the highest places in the world in which to live.

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Spiti Projects charity is delighted to have the influential and kind-hearted philanthropist Joanna Lumley supporting the important work that we do.

In the mountainous Spiti Valley grow coarse blades of grass, long enough to hide all the secrets you wouldn’t want to get out.