New building for Tong-Len school

New building for Tong-Len school

  A lot has been achieved with the Tong-Len school over the past six months, most notably the completion of a new school building which has enabled us to extend our provision to include year 8 students, to provide a class room for nursery students and to have a...

Charan Community Eviction Order

The government of Himachal Pradesh has issued an eviction notice to the slum community in Charan Khad. They have been told they must leave but they have no place to go. The senior hostel children decided to act on behalf of their families and their community. They...

Christmas celebrations at the hostel

The tent school children from Charan joined the hostel children to celebrate Christmas.  Altogether there were more than 300 children at the Christmas festivities.  There was much fun and games as can be seen in the video posted by the children on their own...

Tong-Len launches new web site

The web site has been entirely redesigned including the text.  It is now possible to easily share posts (news items) with friends via a link at the bottom of any post.  You can also comment on any post if you so wish.  At present, if you go to www.tong-len.org you...

Donation from Mudita to Tent Schools

Sophie Minon, President of Mudita, a non-profit organisation visited the tent schools in November and donated toys, puzzles, books, pencils and games on behalf of her charity.  Mudita was established in France in 2014 with the express purpose of developing a local...