Learning and Ideas for Tibet (LIT) is a non-government organization based in Dharamsala, India which aims to provide a place for people from across the world to come and learn and share ideas about how to provide Tibetans inside Tibet and in exile with a brighter future.

It achieves this aim in two ways by providing exiled Tibetans with a brighter future by offering them with both education and employment, giving them essential life skills which they were often denied in Tibet and in exile due to limited employment /training facilities.

It also provides Tibetans in Tibet with a brighter future as its classes and events are aimed specifically at providing Tibetans and travelers with the skills to use the knowledge we have given them to enhance the Tibetan cause. It is this that differentiates LIT from other educational facilities in Dharamsala.
learningandideasfortibet.org

Himalayan Nature Society is a nonprofit local voluntary organization registered in Himachal Pradesh India. The Society’s objective is to provide for animal welfare in the local area. They are engaged in various animal welfare issues ie birth control for dogs, rescue shelter, animal welfare education and founding animal clubs in schools. Also they work for water conservation, environment protection and plantation
www.hnsindia.org

Rogpa Community Tibetan Baby Care Centre was created in order to help low-income, Tibetan families become self-sufficient and independent by providing free child care so that they parents could work. The Community centre provides care, art time, games and fun for the Tibetan refugee children from infancy to three years.

LHA Charitable Trust is a non-profit Social Work Organization based in Dharamsala founded in 1997, and was registered under the District Magistrate of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Government of India (Regd. No. 240, Regd. Year. 2005, Book No. 1) in 2005 as a Charitable Trust. LHA serves as a vital resource center for the community.

The primary goals of LHA are:

To provide meaningful multi-social services to the community, such as education, vocational skills training, health services and environmental awareness;
To facilitate an easy transition for the Tibetan refugee community to India; and
To provide long-term rehabilitation resources for the Tibetan refugee community in India.

The services of LHA are open to Tibetan refugees as well as the local Indian population and people from the Himalaya regions.

Tibet Charity founded by Venerable Lakha Rinpoche in 1998 in Denmark with the help of a group of dedicated supporters. Tibet Charity’s Social Program aims to improve the standard of living of Tibetans living in India. It does this by providing and sourcing financial assistance for individuals and community groups at the numerous Tibetan settlements spread across the country.

The Charity carries out its’ mandate through two programs, the ‘Community Development Project’ and the ‘Adopt a Grandparent Scheme’. Both make provision for supporting individual people in need, but the ‘Community Development Program’ goes further and funds schemes that benefit whole groups of people.

The Library of Tibetan Works & Archives (LTWA) is an autonomous body under direct supervision of H.H. the Dalai Lama. It is registered with the Government of India under the Registration of Societies Act of 1860. LTWA is recognized by Himachal Pradesh University as a Centre for Tibetan Studies in 1991 and was accorded status of National Library, Archives and Museum by the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile in 1996.

The Institute of Buddhist Dialectics was formed to develop the higher education of Tibetans in exile. This has taken the form of a combination of traditional Tibetan disciplines such as Buddhist philosophy, literature and language and modern Western subjects. This combination is used in order to educate people that they might make an effective contribution to their society in exile, and be fully equipped to return to their homeland as well qualified and competent citizens. The institute was founded by the Dalai Lama and Ven Lobsang Gyatso and draws from all lineages of Tibetan Buddhism.

Contact Magazine is Dharamshala’s community publication, which aspires to bring the East and West together in the most meaningful and beneficial ways. Contact serves the Dharamshala community, including residents and visitors, by keeping its readers up-to-date on current issues and events and by networking education, health and service workers within the community.

Tibet Sun is a site is aimed at safeguarding the national interest of Tibet and the Tibetan people. It will also address other pressing global issues and current affairs. It will impart news and views frankly and fearlessly. Every effort will be made that the works conform to the accepted norms, rules, and ethics of journalism, and the reportage be objective and based on truth.

As Tibet Sun aims to publish a diverse perspective, it will also publish the official Chinese news and views disseminated through Xinhua and CCTV and its subsidiary networks, to bring more understanding and awareness about the Chinese government policies and propaganda.Therefore, the site will not only help bring more awareness to both Tibetans and non-Tibetans about Tibetan news and issues, it will also help make the Tibetan presence on the web more prominent. We will also strive to bring Tibetan journalism to new heights.
www.tibetsun.com

Vinayak Shiksha Niketan co-education school in Nepal, was established in 1989 and aims to combine the best of their traditions and culture with the best of current educational practices. This school is a charitable and a non-profit foundation. Funding comes from fees and endowments, not from government. The school is genuinely independent and free to decide what is in the best educational interests of the pupils.

The school has made its main objectives as follows:

To educate the local children at affordable fees and offers scholarship and sponsorship.
To provide quality education with practical knowledge.
To teach the students traditional singing, art, music and dance as the school initiates for culture preservation.

Experience Nepal is Ekno Experience’s partner organization in Nepal. Experience Nepal is a registered NGO in Nepal and was established in 2001 to provide the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs for national and international volunteers in Thimi, a historic and cultural town between Kathmandu and Bhaktapur.

Volunteers have the opportunity participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. This gives people from other countries a chance to make an important contribution to the people of Nepal. Through this will gain an in-depth experience of the country and its culture which will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Experience Nepal also aims to help poorer communities in the field of education, culture and health in the Kathmandu Valley.

The main objectives of Experience Nepal are:

Finding volunteers for local schools, health care centres and local government
Finding sponsors for less fortunate children to enable them to continue their schooling.
Providing the opportunity to gain an in-depth experience of the real life of Nepal
Helping the communities to preserve their local culture and environment
Organising of student/teacher/exchange programs in different countries
Exploring of local crafts which produced by poor local families.

Chenrezig Institute is a centre for Buddhist study, meditation, retreat, and practice nestled in the foothills of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in Queensland, Australia. Established in 1974 Chenrezig Institute was the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the Western World and remains one of the largest.
Today, the Institute is home to a Tibetan Geshe (Lama), a large community of ordained Sangha (monks and nuns), students, residents, volunteers, retreatants, and guests.
Their mission is to transmit the Tibetan Buddhist tradition as the path to ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering.
www.chenrezig.com.au

Thosamling Institute is an international community of nuns, and lay practitioners living and studying within the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, situated in the quiet fields at the foot of the spectacular Dhualladar Range in Sidhpur, India
Our main focus is to support the growth and flourishing of Dharma throughout the world by providing opportunities to listen to, reflect on and study the teachings of the Buddha in a non – sectarian way. By providing a place of refuge for newly ordained nuns we give them the firm grounding in the study and practice they need. By nurturing and supporting the Sangha jewel we in turn create a community that inspires others to practice Dharma for the benefit of all.
www.thosamling.com

Jagori Grameen is a non-profit organization based in Himachal Pradesh, India and is committed to the cause of building a just and equitable society. Their engagement with the community addresses all forms of discrimination based on gender, class, case, religion, disability and all other forms of exclusion and seeks to protect the individual and collective dignity of the marginalized.
www.jagorigrameen.org

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