Afterword

ThimphuTech was the first technology blog in Bhutan. We started writing it in 2009, just as broadband and mobile internet started to take off. (Although internet in Bhutan was launched in 1999, it was either super-slow or super-expensive, and was only used by a selected few).

In the blog, we wrote about technology and food, but also about plenty of other stuff. The blog became popular and influential in Bhutan. A companion bi-weekly column -- Ask Boaz -- was published for many years in the Kuensel, Bhutan's national newspaper. (The complete Kuensel columns are available as an ebook, Blogging with Dragons).

We stopped updating the blog when we left Bhutan in 2014, but the information within the posts can still prove useful, and thus we decided to keep it online.

We thank all our readers.
Tashi Delek,
Boaz & Galit.

Bhutan Charities


Thinking of contributing your time or money in Bhutan? Here are a few recommended charities. Drop us a note for updates or additions (boaz@thimphutech.com).

Tarayana Foundation
Contact: Mr. Dorji Wangchuk 17110881, Ms. Tshering Palden 17622913, Mr. Sonam Pem 17638857
Comments: "goes to far remote corners of Bhutan", "working towards the socio-economic upliftment of vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals and communities, to alleviate poverty"

Pilou Medical Centre, Animal Rescue and Care
Contact: Marianne Guillet, 02-336519, 17603516
Comments: "we need everything, from buckets, bowls, pans, blankets, towels, bed sheet, etc... Any kind of  food is also extremely welcome as well as all medicine (expired or not, we can sort out what is still good or not)…."

VAST
Contact: Asha Kama 17110781
Comments: "helping people in the rural area by building homes"

JDWNRH Casualty/emergency ward

JDWNRH Poor people's house (Welfare home)
Comments: "They have a place just next to the medical ward where they keep poor patients who have no one looking after them and has no one in Thimphu and they are basically the ones who are on long term medication and needs to frequent to the hospital"

Women and Child Protection Unit, RBP
Contact: Karma Rigzin 17618459

RENEW Bhutan
"an NGO which helps women especially women effected by domestic violence"

Thangtong Dechen Nunnery at Zilukha
Contact: 02-322193/325316
Comments: "The nuns became very happy as it is quite rare anyone donate anything to them. The monks often gets the most!"

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