Hostel children celebrate Environment Day

Environment Day was celebrated on the 5th June by the hostel children through a wide variety of events to illustrate the importance of the environment in our lives and how we should care for the environment.  The children engaged in artwork using recycled materials...

Cooking classes for the older children

As part of their social development the children are involved in a range of activities in the hostel at the weekend. One of the activities has been cooking classes for the older children. The children have built their own outside brick oven in order to make...

Jamyang visits primary school in Leeds UK

Jamyang visited Farsley Farfield Primary School in Leeds during his visit to Europe to raise awareness of Tong-Len’s work. The children sang for Jamyang at the school assemby as they watched the video made by the teachers who had visited the Tong-Len hostel...

New team for ‘makingconnection.org’

As reported in September last year, the hostel children have set up their own web site MakingConnection.org where you can read the children’s blogs, news and upcoming events. Video interviews with Tong-Len supporters and visitors to the hostel have been made by...

Mountainous Fund-raising

John Stewart raised a record sum for homeless children in India by climbing to the roof of the world for charity. John, Head of Supply Chain Strategy in RBS Services, has been reading about Everest since he was a teenager – when he spent much of his time exploring and...