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Inspiring & Necessary by Anne Jablonski

Inspiring and necessary: these two words probably best express the experience for me of being part of TCEF’s Elder sponsorship program.  It was, in many ways, such an easy choice:  I’ve have been so blessed to have personally met and spent time with many of the people who created and…...

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Can You Spend Your Money Any Better? by Dan Fritz & Cheryl Hart

Approximately ten years ago, we had great good fortune to meet Karma and Gensung Tensum at Thanksgiving dinner, in the kitchen of The Feathered Pipe Ranch.  Just being in the Ranch’s most vital productive center was always an honor and a privilege.  It was big, roomy, homey, alive with the…...

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Why Tibetan Children Need Help?

Why Tibetan Children Need Help ? As a community, the Tibetans in exile have overcome many challenges and have done relatively well.  Most Tibetan refugees began their lives in exile as road labors. Over the years, many of them have transitioned in business. But, life for Tibetans in exile has…...

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Grandma Tashi

Grandma Tashi TCEF’s sponsorship program benefits truly needy Tibetan elders in many Tibetan settlements in exile. Today’s story is about a grandmother who lives all the way in Choglamsar, Ladakh. Tashi escaped from Tibet along with her parents when she was only a small child. Somehow, her parents did not…...

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My Cappuccino Versus His Future by Crystal Water

Altruism, hospitality and non-violence are just a few of the many wonderful qualities that Tibetan culture embodies. And they are also qualities we need so much in the world today. However, because many Tibetans are in exile their culture becomes more endangered. The Tibetan Children’s Education is working to keep…...

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Stories from the Elders

A few days ago I wrote an update on the children. Today I want to share some stories about our elders. In particular, let me share with you stories of three Tibetan elders – all of whom I know in real life, all three that I had the opportunity to…...

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Ladakh Sponsorships

One of the positive side effects of the Tibetans in exile is that today we are perhaps closer than ever to many smaller Himalayan communities. In the Tibetan monasteries in exile, there are many monks from the Buddhist Himalayan area like Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, from Tawang…...

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2012 TCEF Service Trip

TCEF’s 2012 service trip was a wonderful success. Our focus was on school nurse type health assessments which included vision screening hearing tests, heights and weights, general health questions and observations and the creation of individual health records. The vocational carpentry training and purchase of power tools, the soap making…...

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Sponsorship Program for Elders

TCEF’s Elder sponsorship program connects interested sponsors here in the West with elderly Tibetan in exile that need help to survive. Although the educational sponsorship of children will continue to be our focus because of the transformative powers of education, the grandparents’ sponsorship is also very close to our hearts.…...

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Sponsorship Program for Children

Life for Tibetans in exile has never been easy and there are many Tibetan families that need help. Some of them are poor – others come from broken homes, or have some sickness or other problem in their lives. These families need help to educate their children. TCEF’s sponsorship program…...

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