soma4sol
07-20-2005, 03:36 PM
Dear Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch & Mike Diamond,
Blessings, thank you for your time and energy. My name is Angela Torres and I am a yoga teacher living in Houston, Texas. Currently I have been collecting warm clothing and greatly needed items for Tibetan refugee children and adult staff in Dharamsala, India. This is where the Dalai Lama resides after fleeing from his homeland. These children have been orphaned since the Chinese have taken over Tibet. With the generosity of our yoga community I have been able to collect over 18 large hefty bags of warm clothes and jackets and 5 large boxes of shoes and backpacks and toys. I have been in constant communication with Tashi Lungrig, Secretary of the Tibetan Children’s Village. She is aware that these packages are coming to help them.
I am humbly asking for your help. With my efforts the cost to send these much needed packages seems futile in the grand scheme of things. I have researched and found that sending the packages through USPS will cost $50 per medium size box. Dharamsala is a very remote poor area of India very close to the Himalayan region. We have about 27 or 30 boxes. I am not able to pay for all of these myself, as I am a single mother. I am holding a free yoga class for donation to raise the funds to send the boxes but I am also asking for your help.
Please let me know if it is possible for your agency or through your personal efforts to donate whatever you can to make this love offering possible.
I am only one person but I am presently making a difference in these peoples lives and with your help perhaps a shift in consciousness can happen. Perhaps the energy of giving can grow as others are inspired by the humble gesture. The effect of one person’s selfless service is powerful.
If you are willing to donate please make all efforts payable to Yoga West.
Enclosed is a brief history of the Tibetan Children’s Village and their mission statement. Also feel free to visit the site www.tibchild.org/TCV.htm
I thank you for your time and energy and look forward to hearing from you soon...
Om Shantih Om Peace
Namaste
Angela Torres
1122 Hathorn Way Drive
Houston, Texas 77094
281.578.2955
mamasol602@hotmail.com
Following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950 and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's flight to India in 1959, it was quickly apparent that one of the most critical needs of Tibetan refugees was finding a means to care for the many children who had been orphaned or separated from their families during the arduous escape from their homeland. His Holiness promptly recognized that the future of Tibet and its people depended upon the younger generation. With this in mind and out of concern for the miserable conditions under which so many children were suffering, His Holiness proposed that a center for destitute children be established in Dharamsala.
On 17 May 1960, fifty-one children arrived from the road construction camps in Jammu, ill and malnourished. Mrs. Tsering Dolma Takla, the elder sister of His Holiness, volunteered to look after them. Initially these children were assigned to members of the Dalai Lama's entourage, but before long the Government of India offered its assistance, renting Conium House to accommodate all the children together. At that time, the center was under the name "Nursery for Tibetan Refugee Children."
Originally, the Nursery for Tibetan Refugee Children provided only basic care for children. When they reached the age of eight, they were sent to other residential schools established by the Government of India. But eventually this arrangement could not be continued as all the residential schools filled to capacity. This left the Nursery to find a solution to the problem of overcrowding. Thanks to the foresight and courage of Mrs. Jetsun Pema, then the Director, it was decided that the Nursery had to grow and expand despite many apparent obstacles.
A massive re-organization plan was set into motion. This included seeking help from private donors and international aid organizations. A period of hectic construction work ensued to provide for more houses and classrooms for children. The Nursery slowly took the shape of a small village with its own school and homes. In 1971, TCV took over the small nursery in Patlikuhl and expanded it into a residential school. In 1972, it was formally registered under the Societies Act as Tibetan Children's Village, and it also became a full-fledged member of SOS Kinderdorf International.
THE MISSION
The mission of Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) - an integrated charitable organization - is to ensure that all Tibetan children under its care achieve a firm cultural identity and become self-reliant and contributing members of the community and the world at large by providing:
- Parental care and love to children in need.
- The best of both modern and Tibetan education.
- A competent and dedicated staff.
- A child-centered learning environment conducive to independent growth.
- Learning opportunities to preserve promote and renew the rich Tibetan cultural heritage.
"From the day we became refugees, our basic objective was to rise to the very place from where we have fallen down."
H.H. the Dalai Lama
Blessings, thank you for your time and energy. My name is Angela Torres and I am a yoga teacher living in Houston, Texas. Currently I have been collecting warm clothing and greatly needed items for Tibetan refugee children and adult staff in Dharamsala, India. This is where the Dalai Lama resides after fleeing from his homeland. These children have been orphaned since the Chinese have taken over Tibet. With the generosity of our yoga community I have been able to collect over 18 large hefty bags of warm clothes and jackets and 5 large boxes of shoes and backpacks and toys. I have been in constant communication with Tashi Lungrig, Secretary of the Tibetan Children’s Village. She is aware that these packages are coming to help them.
I am humbly asking for your help. With my efforts the cost to send these much needed packages seems futile in the grand scheme of things. I have researched and found that sending the packages through USPS will cost $50 per medium size box. Dharamsala is a very remote poor area of India very close to the Himalayan region. We have about 27 or 30 boxes. I am not able to pay for all of these myself, as I am a single mother. I am holding a free yoga class for donation to raise the funds to send the boxes but I am also asking for your help.
Please let me know if it is possible for your agency or through your personal efforts to donate whatever you can to make this love offering possible.
I am only one person but I am presently making a difference in these peoples lives and with your help perhaps a shift in consciousness can happen. Perhaps the energy of giving can grow as others are inspired by the humble gesture. The effect of one person’s selfless service is powerful.
If you are willing to donate please make all efforts payable to Yoga West.
Enclosed is a brief history of the Tibetan Children’s Village and their mission statement. Also feel free to visit the site www.tibchild.org/TCV.htm
I thank you for your time and energy and look forward to hearing from you soon...
Om Shantih Om Peace
Namaste
Angela Torres
1122 Hathorn Way Drive
Houston, Texas 77094
281.578.2955
mamasol602@hotmail.com
Following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950 and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's flight to India in 1959, it was quickly apparent that one of the most critical needs of Tibetan refugees was finding a means to care for the many children who had been orphaned or separated from their families during the arduous escape from their homeland. His Holiness promptly recognized that the future of Tibet and its people depended upon the younger generation. With this in mind and out of concern for the miserable conditions under which so many children were suffering, His Holiness proposed that a center for destitute children be established in Dharamsala.
On 17 May 1960, fifty-one children arrived from the road construction camps in Jammu, ill and malnourished. Mrs. Tsering Dolma Takla, the elder sister of His Holiness, volunteered to look after them. Initially these children were assigned to members of the Dalai Lama's entourage, but before long the Government of India offered its assistance, renting Conium House to accommodate all the children together. At that time, the center was under the name "Nursery for Tibetan Refugee Children."
Originally, the Nursery for Tibetan Refugee Children provided only basic care for children. When they reached the age of eight, they were sent to other residential schools established by the Government of India. But eventually this arrangement could not be continued as all the residential schools filled to capacity. This left the Nursery to find a solution to the problem of overcrowding. Thanks to the foresight and courage of Mrs. Jetsun Pema, then the Director, it was decided that the Nursery had to grow and expand despite many apparent obstacles.
A massive re-organization plan was set into motion. This included seeking help from private donors and international aid organizations. A period of hectic construction work ensued to provide for more houses and classrooms for children. The Nursery slowly took the shape of a small village with its own school and homes. In 1971, TCV took over the small nursery in Patlikuhl and expanded it into a residential school. In 1972, it was formally registered under the Societies Act as Tibetan Children's Village, and it also became a full-fledged member of SOS Kinderdorf International.
THE MISSION
The mission of Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) - an integrated charitable organization - is to ensure that all Tibetan children under its care achieve a firm cultural identity and become self-reliant and contributing members of the community and the world at large by providing:
- Parental care and love to children in need.
- The best of both modern and Tibetan education.
- A competent and dedicated staff.
- A child-centered learning environment conducive to independent growth.
- Learning opportunities to preserve promote and renew the rich Tibetan cultural heritage.
"From the day we became refugees, our basic objective was to rise to the very place from where we have fallen down."
H.H. the Dalai Lama