2019 TBCA Projects
- TBCA continued to support elderly and handicapped people in Arunachal Pradesh, India. In 2019, we supported 63 such people. As in prior years, our dedicated committee of volunteers ventured out to very remote villages where they provided money, blankets, and supplies. When this project was created by Geshe Pema Dorjee in 2014, it was originally called The Old Peoples Project.
- TBCA continued to support Pasang Lhamu, a young girl at the Dicky Tsering Home and Orphanage in Kathmandu. This afforded her room, board, education, and skills training.
- TBCA helped finance education and construction at the Lumla Bodong Nunnery and Girls’ Boarding School in Arunachal Pradesh, India. The young girls come from impoverished families in remote Himalayan areas where opportunities such as education and even a safe environment are not available. At this Tibetan Buddhist school, in addition to a general education, the girls learn technical skills and crafts that they can use to earn an income and become self-sufficient. Some of the students plan to continue their studies at institutions of higher learning such as universities. All of the girls, however, will have had an education that will enable them to avoid the fates that their mothers often experienced such as child trafficking, child brides, and manual laborers.
- TBCA continued to provide educational scholarships in Nepal and India. In 2019, a scholarship went to a young woman named Pema Tsamoche, a medical student in Kathmandu.