Living in Exile
By Metok Lhazey / January 8, 2016
I’m Metok Lhazey. I’m going to introduce myself. I came to India in 1999 for study and crossed the Himalaya Mountains by walking with a group. We spent almost 29 days and we got lots of problems on the way. Fortunately we arrived in India and I got a chance read more →
A Nun’s Story
By Chodon / January 8, 2016
I grew up in an isolated village in the northern Indian Himalayas. My village is called Kiamo Spiti. Spiti is covered by snow almost eight to nine months of the year. Most of Spiti is farmers. In summer when the snow melts the farmers plant barley, wheat, beans, and potatoes read more →
How I lost My Heart in Little Tibet
November 30, 2015
I came to volunteer with Lha beginning in May 2015. My initial plan was to stay three months but life sometimes takes unexpected turns and I ended up staying seven months. I grew up in Switzerland where I have been involved in the Tibetan community for over ten years. That read more →
My Tibetan Childhood
By Jenny James / November 10, 2015
Lily lives in rural England now, but was brought up in Tibet. Lily is Chinese, her father a Chinese army officer who led his men into Lhasa during the invasion of Tibet and was there for the subsequent Tibetan resistance and uprisings. She knows its hard for people to understand read more →
Campaigning for Equality and Justice
By Hannah Dellabosca and Jyotsna George / October 5, 2015
Hi, my name is Jyotsna George. I’m 25 and I work at Students for a Free Tibet-India as the Campaigns Director. HANNAH: Can you tell us about your early days, your upbringing and school? JYOTSNA: I was born in North Delhi. I have a younger brother and we both went read more →
From Saudi Arabia to McLeod Ganj
By Syed Tarique Ahmed / September 11, 2015
Marhaba, friends. My name is Syed Tarique Ahmed, but many friends call me Sam. I was born on the first of August in 1995 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. I am the fourth child of a large family. I have two brothers and four sisters. When I was growing up, I read more →
Spiritual Riches
By Nick Hawkins / August 13, 2015
Volunteer jobs at Lha: Tutoring, teaching English, conversation class, Tibet Fair Trade shop It is late on Good Friday when we arrive in a cool, damp McLeod Ganj. The mountain light is fading as we climb the steep, twisting road to our home for the next six weeks, living and read more →
“Twice is Not Enough”
By Okechukwu N Onwunli / August 3, 2015
Volunteer Job at Lha: Web Developer and English Tutor When I had first volunteered at Lha in 2011 my experiences changed my views on the nature of giving and compassion. Amongst other things, I learned that consistent compassion could be a reliable vein of happiness, benefiting both the giver and read more →
“We Plan to Return as Often as We can”
By Lucy McKormick / July 1, 2015
Volunteer Job at Lha: Advanced English teacher, writer for Contact magazine When my husband Arham and I first met, we discovered that we had both lived in the same part of China, and had both spent time in the Tibetan areas of what is now called Sichuan province.We’d been drawn read more →
You Never Stop Learning
By Edward Wilson / May 11, 2015
Volunteer Job at Lha: English Tutor and assistant in Lha Tibet Fair Trade Shop In England it is often believed that the best time to learn is as a young child, and that particularly with languages it becomes harder to learn as you get older. This can often lead to read more →