THF in the media
Soleha Kousar interviewed Yutaka Hirako about his work and Tibet Heritage Fund for her article “Open Door to Architecture & Conservation“ published the October 26, 2012 on the online blog DOLKHAR. To read the article visit https://dolkharladakh.com/open-door-to-architecture-conservation/. Enjoy.
Yutaka Hirako gave an interview for a promotion video of dry toilet by LEDeG (Ladakh Ecological Development and Environmental Group). Yutaka introduced our newly designed dry toilet, which is functional, improves the hygienic and looks good too. This promotion video is now available on YouTube channel, ‘Do you Flush and forget? Relevance of Ladakhi Dry Compost Toilet’.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=Iyg2wgNkRJ8
On December the 19th, 2018 one article featuring the work and efforts of Tibet Heritage Fund to preserve Tibetan traditional architecture was published in the South China Morning Post paper with the tittle ‘Rising from the ruins – A group of devoted heritage experts are on mission to restore and preserve traditional architecture, from landmarks in Lhasa to Buddhist monasteries in Mongolia’ by Enid Tsui. The article is available also online:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/2178448/group-saving-tibetan-traditional-architecture-destruction-and.

In 2017, THF’s Yutaka Hirako was feature on the Japanese ABC Asahi Broadcasting Television programme ‘ Discovered in Villages in the World!’, a TV documentaries about Japanese living in different corners of the world and their lives, motivation and dreams. The Japanese actress Tomomi Nishimura (西村知美) together with the filming crew come over land from Delhi, India to meet with Yutaka in Ladakh and visit THF/LOTI projects. The documentary was broadcasted in all Japan on 12th September 2017. https://www.asahi.co.jp/konnatokoroni/backnumber/20170919/index.html
A Ladakhi journalist Ms Fatima Ashraf Barcha interviewed THF/LOTI and concerned NGOs about RAY scheme, the current development project by the government in Leh Old Town. The article called ‘The RAY project in Old Town: A golden opportunity?’ was published on the vol.2 issue 6, June 2015.

‘Ladakh, India チベット文化『最後の秘境』を守る人びと‘ (The people who preserve the spectacular Tibetan culture in Ladakh) was published in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Weekly on 1st February 2015. A British writer, photographer and illustrator Mr. Oliver Raw wrote the article based on his visit to Leh. Oliver interviewed Yutaka Hirako and visited THF’s project sites in the old town of Leh.

http://www.jcpnpo.org/library/pdf/No.24.pdf
You can see the article here.
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/8037/spread/57
..."it's a passion for preservation that has seen the restoration of the oldest mosque in Leh to near-original shape. Once in a dilapidated condition, the Masjid Sharif, known as Tsas Soma or New Garden Mosque, has been painstakingly restored by the Tibet Heritage Fund. It's replete with Ladakhi elements as pillars, paper lamps, roof waterproofing with markalag or butter-mud [clay] wooden floors, etc."
A feature in German about THF's work in Ladakh and Tibet will be aired on RBB Kulturradio, 1. Juni 2011, 19.04 Uhr (25 minutes).
THF Ladakh on German radio, Deutschlandfunk Sonntagsspaziergang on April 10 at 11.30 German time, online:
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/sonntagsspaziergang/ oder bei: http://www.rainerhoerig.com/german/dradio.htm
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/sonntagsspaziergang/ oder bei: http://www.rainerhoerig.com/german/dradio.htm



