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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

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…...

I had to wait a long time - almost ten years, to travel back to India and the Tibetan community there. This February we finally had everything in place. It is difficult to find correct words to describe both our excitement and anxiety. We had thought and talked about the…...