With your support, our Delhi-based youth empowerment project, Empowering the Vision, was able to award ten students ‘fellowships’ enabling them to enrol for further training in specialised fields and follow their dreams. The skills and courses you have funded ranged from music-mixing to tattoo art!
Here Tenzin Aruktsang, a fellowship recipient who is studying for his diploma in clinical optometry, tells us his plans for the future …
“Upon completion of the course, I am planning to volunteer at Tibetan monasteries/nunneries and schools in India, as I believe I can benefit the maximum number of people with my expertise in these institutions.”
Mobile learning…
Working with Lodrik Welfare Fund in Pokhara, we are funding skills training for young Tibetans in Nepal who have not been able to complete formal education or want to pursue vocational careers such as Tibetan tailoring or barista training.
Tenzin Tsephel is 16 and lives in Paljorling settlement with his family.
Thanks to your donations he has been able to take a course in mobile phone repairing …
