A: Certain international organizations and foreign countries have begun economic cooperation with Tibet. International aid projects launched include: US $4 million aid for the Yangbajain geothermal power station provided by the United Nations Development Program in 1981; comprehensive agricultural development projects in four counties in the Lhasa River Valley to combat drought and improve irrigation, launched in 1989, with id from the United Nations World Food Program; and US $3.215 million aid from UNICEF for ten projects, including the Tibet Women and Children Health Center. In 1995 INDP decided to offer US $822,000 AID TO Nyalam, Tingri, Dinggye and Gyirong counties in the Qomolangma Nature Reserve to fund projects covering agriculture, housing, school, wind power generation and household handicrafts.