Reflections on Volunteering
Volunteer job at Lha: English Teachers and Grant writing. We arrived in McLeod-Ganj in the middle of the night. Having just finished a year living in Taiwan, we were completely unprepared for the cold. We stood…
Gap year colonialism?
Volunteer job at Lha: Teacher and contributing writer. A lot of things have been said recently about volunteering abroad and not many of them are nice. A google search of “voluntourism” brings up multiple articles…
Dave’s Story
After experiencing Delhi, and inhaling that first breath of busy, smoggy and thick Delhi air, volunteers arriving in Dharamsala, weary and heavy-eyed, will find themselves totally lost in the environment, atmosphere, and people. It is…
Volunteering with Lha- A Kiwi in Dharamsala
Some of my students may be short on formal education, but the one thing they are not short on is intelligence. Bright, smart, and quick to learn, they are keen to learn and easy to…
Volunteering with Lha
It was a long, hard trek getting to McLeodGanj and I am grateful for the help of Lha’s Reception/Orientation .I arrived in Delhi exhausted from two overnight flights and was relieved to see someone waiting…
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Superbe experience avec les tibetains
Etre benevole avec Lha a Mcleod Ganj c est une finalite. Je m explique. J ai commence par visiter l Inde par Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, pour ensuite prendre le train pour Amritsar. Que de beaux souvenirs. Je continue ma montee vers le nord et au…
Exchange student group from Mexico
From December 7th to 30th of 2012, we hosted our last exchange student group in Dharamsala, visiting students from Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Santa Fe (ITESM CSF) Mexico for a cultural exchange program. Under this program we, “Lha”, organised many different activities…
Lha’s fourth water filter installation
The Installation of a brand new filter water system was celebrated by the students of TCV Day School in McLeod Ganj on the 14th of November, coinciding with Children’s day. The filter system is an RO+UV+ UF and TTS, considered one of the best…
Lha’s Clear Vision project 2012
The gift of vision is something that enriches life and highlights the small pleasures of every day existence; Lha’s eye care project-2012 was put into action in response to the above sentiment. The project is meant to benefit people who have limited resources…
Smiling Faces
We were tired and jet-lagged when we arrived in McLeod Ganj after our journey from Southern Ireland, but awoke the next morning to the surprise of warm, bright sunshine, gleaming on the snow-covered peaks, as we opened the curtains to see our home for…
Cherish Every Moment…by Paul
Lost, depressed and alone three short years ago, my day to day experience of life was an excruciating and endless cycle of suffering. I was a boy trapped inside a man’s body. What else could I be? I’d never met a man, let alone spent…
Lha’s third Clean Water Project
On 18th October 2012, The children of Mewoen Tsuglak Petoen (model school*) School can finally reach turn on the tap and get clean drinking water now that representatives from Lha Charitable Trust have successfully installed a brand new water filtration system. The filter is…
Students from Tulane University’s School of Social work.
Since 2002, Tulane University’s social work students have been coming to India for a one month program in Dharmasala and its surrounding areas. This year, 16 students, 3 professors, and 2 group leaders came to Dharamsala led by Professor Ron Mark. For two weeks,…
Lha Welcomes Three Cultural Exchange Groups in July
This month, Lha welcomed three cultural exchange groups to Dharamsala. In early July, a new group of 11 adults from Kentucky, led by Professor Ken Casey, joined Lha at Ahimsa House. They spent two weeks in the McLeod Ganj area, with one week’s travel…
New Perspectives – Clear Vision Project by Mariana
Every year unknown numbers of Tibetans take the dangerous journey across the Himalayas in search of a better life and many of them will find a home free from Chinese oppression at McLeod Ganj. Among Indians and tourists, they will adjust to a different culture,…