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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Promoting secular ethics in schools
As part of their holistic education programme, the hostel students have set up a new project to promote secular ethics in local schools. The project is run entirely by the students and mainly involve the senior hostel students and those who have recently graduated...
A Day Out at the end of the school year
The end of year results of the Tong-Len hostel Students are now out and they have entered new classes. To start the new session with enthusiasm Tong-Len decided to take their junior students out for a day trip to Gopalput Zoo zoological and to the Chamunda Mata Mandir...
12th Anniversary Celebrated
Tong-Len celebrated its 12th Anniversary and Thanks Day on the 19th November, this being the date on which the first hostels were opened by His Holiness The Dali Lama in 2011. Since the tenth anniversary in 2014, it has been the custom to present Tong-Len awards to...
Update on the communities evicted from Charan Khad
The plight of the families evicted from Charan Khad, Dharamsala in June is desperate. After a horrendous time on the road in monsoon rains, the majority have erected flimsy shelters on small pieces of land rented from private landlords in five main locations near...
Five more hostel children start university courses
Five of the children who finished school this year have now started degree courses in local colleges (Kangra District). Renu and Ranjeeta are studying for a BA degree and Vijay a batchelor degree in commerce at MCM DAV College Kangra, a college affiliated to Himachal...
Congratulations and Good Wishes to Karan
We send our congratulations to Karan for being accepted to study for a BBM (Bachelor of Business Management) degree at JSS College of Arts, Mysore. He started his course in July 2016. We wish him well in his studies.
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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