TBCA 2020 Projects

Geshe Pema Dorjee’s 2020 USA tour was cancelled due to Covid-19. He
continued to direct all of his humanitarian projects from his home in
Dharamsala, India as well as from the Bodong Monastery in Kathmandu,
Nepal. Thanks to the continued support of our donors, TBCA remained able
to continue to support the following projects of Geshe Pema Dorjee:
TBCA continued to provide yearly student sponsorships and scholarships to
the Bodong Monastery School in Kathmandu, Nepal. These funds support
young boys who come from impoverished families in remote Himalayan areas
where educational opportunities are not available. Your donations to TBCA
provide these boys with a safe and caring place to live (including full room and
board), a rigorous education, clothing, and medical care. The teachers and staff
at the monastery school serve as role models because they live the
humanitarian and ethical principles that they teach. Eventually some of the
young men choose to be fully ordained monks, while others choose to return
to their villages and become meaningful and helpful members of their
community.
TBCA continued to support 64 elderly and handicapped people in remote
villages in northeast Arunachal Pradesh, India. This project is carried out by
the same volunteer committee that successfully managed the Stove Project.
Twice a year they venture out to these villages and provide money, blankets,
clothing, and general care to the elderly and handicapped. The committee,
made up of local teachers and 11 students, must often travel by foot through
the mountains because many of the villages are unreachable by road.
Due to the Covid-19 lockdown of the Bodong Monastery School in
Kathmandu, TBCA funds were used to purchase basic necessities for students
and teachers, including rice, dal, oil, flour, medicine, hand sanitizer, and
disinfectant spray.