By Sreeparna Chakrabarty
Dharamsala, March 22 – It is a home away from home for some 2,000 children, who have trecked thousands of miles from their country in search of a better life and education.
Spread over a sprawling campus, the Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV), here houses children from the age of six months to 18 years providing them with an environment that can be called closest to home.
Unlike a regular school, the aim here is to provide a homely atmosphere to the children and thus the institution has separate living places for the wards who are divided into families instead of a hostel, Executive Director of the institute Tsewang Yeshi says.
“The TCV gets regular batches of children every year from Tibet. Most of these kids are orphans who are brought here by their relatives and some are even left by their own parents, hoping for a better life for their offsprings,” he says.
Usually a typical family in the residential school consists of a mother, father and 15 children from the age group of six months to 14-15 years,” he says adding, it is the mother who along with the elder siblings runs the house.
