A TCEF team comprising of Valerie Hellermann, Project Manager and Sara Buckerfield, Consultant in Language Acquisition are currently visiting select Tibetan schools in India to study current instructional practices, curricula, and assessment norms. Their visits to the different classrooms will be documented on film for later review and study. This…...

TCEF will team up with  Tsering Lodoe to present  a magnificent concert of traditional and contemporary Tibetan music at the Gateway Center , 1710 National Ave  in Helena Montana,  Friday November 15th, at 7 pm. The event includes a fabulous Indian Tibetan dinner followed by a silent auction. Tickets are…...

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…...