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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
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.…...