Brave Festival fulfills its social function by providing real material support to communities that fight to preserve their traditions.

During the former edition of Brave Festival, "Prayers of the World", we collected more than 83,000 PLN, all of which went to ROKPA's schools and orphanages in Tibet.
What the organisation needs: 10 GBP (44 PLN) pays a month at a primary school; 20 GBP (88 PLN) is a year for a child's health care; 25-50 GBP (110-120 PLN) pays a month at a secondary school with bed, board and healthcare; 487 GBP (2100 PLN) is a year's study at university; 723 GBP (7000 PLN) pays the year's maintenance of a healthcare centre.

Grzegorz Bral: Last summer, along with Anastazja Gołaj, I embarked on a very important, private journey to Yushu, a remote mountain region of the Tibetan plateau (at over 3,800 m above sea level). Yushu is currently in the Chinese province, Qinghai, yet 97 per cent of its population is of Tibetan origin. We found the abundance and diversity of their tradition extremely precious and important, especially when juxtaposed with their material poverty.

We went to Yushu to invite representatives of nomadic communities - artists, monks - from thousand years old monastries - and students of the school run by ROKPA, to participate in Brave festival. We were, therefore, all the more moved when we heared the news that on April 14, 2010 an earthquake had struck Yushu and hurt our good friends who live there. It is an unimaginable human tragedy and a huge loss for their cultural heritage! A part of ROKPA's school was damaged. Fortunately only a few children were hurt. Thrangu monastery collapsed and some monks died. They won't be here with us in Wrocław.

Vice-president of ROKPA, Lea Wyler writes, "What has happened is terrible. Around 90% of the houses in Yushu have collapsed. According to unofficial sources around 10 000 people have been killed, injured or missing. Some of our students and teachers have been badly injured. In a ROKPA supported monastery outside the town at least 40 monks have died, others are injured."
The majority of Tibetans in this area live in extreme poverty. This natural disaster has hit them hard. The extent of the damage is unimaginable. ROKPA is doing everything it can to help the Tibetans who suffeed in this eartquake and support the children and monks from Yushu.

This year Brave Festival would like to support children and monks from Yushu.