Tibetan Children's Villages

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 Himachal Pradesh, North India. TCV has a network spread across India with over 12,000 children under its care.

Tibetan Children's Villages བོད་ཕྲུག་ཁྱིམ་སྡེ་
Founded1960
TypeNon-profit
Location
  • Dharamsala
Websitetcv.org.in
Dalai Lama at Tibetan Children's Village Dharamsala, 1993
View of Tibetan Children's Villages, at McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala

From 1964 until 2006 the TCV has been presided by Jetsun Pema, sister of 14th 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]

Locations

See also

References
  1. Staff (17 February 2009). "Dalai Lama inaugurates first Tibetan college in India - www.phayul.com". Phayul.com. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  2. "Tibetan Children's Village School, Lower Dharamsala". Tibetan's Children Village School, Lower Dharamasala. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  3. "Welcome to Tibetan Children's Village School, Selakui". Tibetan's Children Village School, Selakui. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. "Tibetan Children's Village School in Mcleod Ganj". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. "TCV UPPER DHARAMSALA". Tibetan Children's Villages. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  6. "TCV Bylakuppee". Tibetan Children's Villages. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  7. "TCV Chauntra". Tibetan Children's Villages. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  8. "TCV Gopalpur". Tibetan Children's Villages. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  9. "TCV Ladakh". Tibetan Children's Villages. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  10. "TCV Suja". Tibetan Children's Villages. Retrieved 22 March 2017.


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