70 monks are now sponsored.  The sponsoring money gives them money to buy  stationary for their studies, extra food such as fruit, and some money for medical care.
The results are obvious now in that the monks are more healthy, there is less disease and they are able to study better with less overcrowding and worry. 

Monks continue to come out of Tibet in order to have the freedom of study.

Consequently there are still many monks who are not sponsored and still need help. 

Another building has now been finished to provide fifteen suitable rooms, each with their own toilet and washing facilities for elderly monks.  These are the monks who were the original builders of Drepung Gomang monastery when it was re-established in India.  They are now very old, often living in the original huts which are old and nearly finished.  We also help to provide money for  daily expenses.

Again any help towards  making the final years of these monks more comfortable would be very much welcomed.

If you would like to help sponsor a monk, nun or a newly arrived refugee, please visit our sponsorship page

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Tibetan Refugees in Exile. 

After the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 thousands of refugees left Tibet by crossing the Himalayan mountains.

Settlements were set up for these refugees all over India and today most Tibetan families are still struggling to find a way of living in these settlements.   There is great poverty and little work.  The first refugees are now old and have to rely on family members for support. But the Tibetans have great difficulty earning a living in a country which already has great poverty amongst its people. Their income consequently is pitifully small and drastically inadequate for their basic needs.  Consequently malnutrition and tuberculosis is rife.

A typical family that is now sponsored is

Tenzin Wangmo  She has a daughter who has become mentally ill and who has  two children. Her husband has died.  She now looks after her daughter and the two children in Orissa Settlement. She tries to find some work but it is not consistent..

Their home was a shack which was no longer waterproof and was collapsing. .

With the help of money from her sponsor she has been able to built a small new house which the family have now moved into.

She cannot thank her sponsor enough for the help she has received. 

Tibetan Children.

Children are still arriving in India from Tibet , many as young as six years old - sometimes younger.  They are send by parents to be educated in their own Tibetan culture,  with their own language and in spiritual freedom.   When the children arrive they are sent to one of the Tibetan Children's Villages -  a TCV .    It can be very hard for these youngsters but they receive as much as possible the love and warmth of a normal family life,  in homes with two foster parents, in self-contained family groups with their own houses.

Again we try to sponsor all the children coming from the area of Tibet where Rinpoche

was raised. They come to see him when he visits India to get his support and spiritual care.

Children born of refugee parents from Pasho now living in India are also sponsored to help with school books, clothes and other requirements.

If you are able to help with any of the above projects please contact us.

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