by Tong-Len UK | Apr 23, 2020 | Communities, Health, Tong-Len Video
From the 20th March to 23rd April Tong-Len has been distributing food to the slum people. For the first few days it was only possible to help those families in most urgent need – they received cooked food from our nursery tent. Thanks to donations into our emergency...
by Tong-Len UK | Dec 12, 2017 | Communities
As mentioned in a post in November 2016 the families evicted from Charan Khad in June 2016 were forced to move outside the town of Dharamsala which had been the home of some of them for almost 35 years. Although a few have since moved far away, the majority are...
by Tong-Len UK | Dec 12, 2017 | Communities
As well as working hard for his Bachelor of Commerce degree in the government college Dharamsala, Vijay has been helping the evicted slum communities. Vijay was concerned about the conditions that the slum community were living in and wanted to help them. He...
by Tong-Len UK | Dec 10, 2017 | Communities, Education
Tong-Len is now able to provide primary education to the children from the slum camps through the new school established in the Tong-Len hostels. Children are taken in the Tong-Len bus each day to join the children resident in the hostels. For the very young...
by Tong-Len UK | Dec 9, 2017 | Communities, Health
The Tong-Len health team have been working hard to support the families evicted from their homes in Charan Khad. Regular clinics are being held in all the places where the families have relocated, mainly in the vicinity of Chetru close to the airport near Gaggal. In...
by Tong-Len UK | Jun 3, 2017 | Communities, Education
Tong-Len has been very concerned to provide education and support for the children of the families that were evicted from their homes in Charan Khad in June 2016. In addition to taking more children into the hostel programme, Tong-Len has ensured that as many as...