By Tenzin Choephel
Phayul Correspondent
Kathmandu, May 20: Mr Richard C. Blum, the Chairman and some other members of the American Himalayan Foundation (AHF) visited the Tibet Reception Centre (TRC) in Kathmandu today to see the completion of one of the projects supported by the Foundation at the Center.
The visiting members were greeted by Mr. Kelsang Chung, director of the Centre, along with the centre’s staff and about 60 newly-arrived Tibetan refugees currently being stationed at the Centre.
Mr. Chung thanked the American Himalayan Foundation for their continued support to the Center and briefed the visiting delegates about the condition of the centre and newly arriving Tibetan refugees.
Besides, the foundation has been actively supporting many projects for the Centre, which includes welfare and medical treatment facilities to the newly arriving Tibetan refugees.
Mr. Blum also spent time talking with some of the newly arrived Tibetans to hear their situation.
The American Himalayan Foundation is a non-profit organisation helping the people and ecology of the Himalaya region. AHF is involved in more than 120 projects at present in the region covering a wide range of sectors like education, shelter, environment, cultural preservation, Tibetan elders, refugees etc.
The foundation’s work also includes projects inside Tibet like Tsatsa Kathok Clinic at Kathok, near Tsatsa run by two dedicated volunteer monks trained in traditional Tibetan medicine and basic western medicine. The foundation’s project also provides much needed care to the nomadic community in Tibet by providing food, clothing and caretaker to about 50 orphan students at the school in Dzogyen Rawa in Tibet.
In the exile Tibetan community, the foundation has been working closely with more than 27 Tibetan Refugee Settlements. AHF’s Lopheling School in Manang, Nepal, caters educational need to children of about 68 scattered Tibetan refugee families who settled in the district after escaping Tibet in 1959. Water reservoir ponds project for Tibetan farmers in the Tibetan settlement of Miao, in Arunachal Pradesh, India and the TWA Elderly Home in Kathmandu sheltering 79 elderly Tibetan refugees are few of the many projects by AHF.
