TIBETAN REFUGEES
Add to Cart DownloadChildren take part in music lessons at a school for Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala, India. The Tibetan children's Village runs a chain of fifteen schools, with over ten thousand students, in different parts of India. The main village, known as the Upper TCV, is based on a hill two kilometres from McLeod Ganj. It educates and looks after the upbringing of about three thousand student, most of whom are orphans and new refugees from Tibet. Upper TCV consists of thirty eight homes, four hostels and a baby room to care for months-old infants through to boys and girls of sixteen. It has modern school buildings ranging from nursery to high school, sports grounds, staff quarters, a dispensary, a handicraft centre, etc. These are spread over an area of about forty three acres. (Photo © Jock Fistick)
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