Tong-Len
A Charitable TrustWe help displaced communities in North India achieve a secure and sustainable future by addressing the root causes of their poverty and ill-health through a range of education and health-based projects
Taking on humanity, one step at a time...
Tong-Len is a small charity working with displaced Indian communities in the area around Dharamsala. Most families live in a state of desperation within slum camps.
Tong-Len aims to help these homeless communities gain access to basic human rights. The main focus is to break the cycle of deprivation through education. To this end, Tong-Len has established its own school and provides hostel accommodation for those children in most need. .
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About Us
Tong-Len Charitable Trust was registered in December 2004, with a vision to help destitute Indian children, seen begging in the streets and scavenging in the rubbish dumps, gain access to education. Tong-Len UK was founded in March 2005 to raise funds for Tong-Len Charitable Trust.
In some projects, especially health, Tong-Len works in partnership with the Dalai Lama Trust.
Jamyang, a refugee Tibetan monk, was moved by the plight of the young Indian children he saw begging in the street and scavenging in the rubbish bins. He discovered they were living in terrible conditions in a slum camp with no access to clean water, sanitation or education.
Jamyang shared his concerns and his vision to help these children go to school with a few other Tibetan refugees and Western volunteers who helped him establish the charity in India.
The name Tong-Len comes from the Tibetan words meaning ‘give’ and ‘take’, the idea being that through compassion one shares in the suffering and pain of others whilst simultaneously giving out love and kindness. For more of Jamyang’s story, click here.
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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 earlier...
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 the...
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...
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Tong-Len in the UK
Tong-Len UK (Charity Number SC036383),
7 Oak Lane, Edinburgh, EH12 6XH
E-mail: anna@tong-len.org
Tong-Len in India
Charity Number 16284, Tong-Len Hostel, V.P.O., Tehsil Dharamsala District Kangra,
Himachal Pradesh 176215 INDIA
E-mail: jamyang@tong-len.org