Tibetan Children's Villages

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Tibetan Children's Villages
Type Non-profit
Founded 1960
Headquarters
  • Dharamsala
Website http://www.tcv.org.in/schools.shtml
Dalai Lama at Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala, 1993
View of Tibetan Children's Villages, at McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala

Tibetan Children's Villages or TCV is an integrated community in exile for the care and education of orphans, destitutes and refugee children from Tibet. It is a registered, nonprofit charitable organization with its main facility based at Dharamsala in Himachel Pradesh, North India. TCV has a network spread across India with over 12,000 children under its care.

From 1964 until 2006 the TCV has been presided by Jetsun Pema, sister of Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. In 2009, The TCV established the first Tibetan college in exile in Bangalore (India) which was named “The Dalai Lama Institute for Higher Education”. The goals of this college is to teach Tibetan language and Tibetan culture, but also science, arts, counseling and information technology to Tibetan students in exile.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Staff (17 February 2009). "Dalai Lama inaugurates first Tibetan college in India - www.phayul.com". Phayul.com. Retrieved 2010-02-04. 

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