- WHAT WE DO
Rehabilitating New Refugees
Assisting new refugees to lead healthy, dignified lives in exile is the core goal of our humanitarian aid. Every year Tibetans persist in their attempts to flee across the border to freedom despite heightened border security and severe punishment if caught escaping. Since 1991, The Tibet Fund has worked with the Central Tibetan Administration to meet their basic needs at refugee reception centers in Delhi and Dharamsala, where they receive food, shelter, clothing, counselling, and essential medical care. After securing legal residence permits from the Government of India, they are given the opportunity to attend Tibetan schools, monasteries, or nunneries of their choosing. Additional financial and psychosocial support is provided to Tibetan political prisoners, torture victims, and refugees with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Emergency Relief
The Tibet Fund also provides emergency relief to vulnerable refugees affected by natural disasters and other crises, such as the Covid pandemic. Most recently, we provided emergency funds for more than 100 families in Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, to build walls to protect their homes from severe flooding during the monsoon season.
Covid Emergency Relief
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, The Tibet Fund worked with multiple partners in India, Nepal, and North America to meet the most pressing needs of the exile community throughout this critical period. Initiatives included providing online education for students, raising community awareness, supporting vulnerable women and unemployed youth, and delivering Covid-19 infection control, prevention, and emergency health services to all 47 settlements in India and Nepal. At the end of the pandemic the Central Tibetan Administration recorded a morbidity rate of 12% and mortality rate of only 2% in South Asia, far below host country levels. To read more about The Tibet Fund’s Covid response, please click here.
Nepal Earthquake Relief
