Sponsorships

Sponsorships

In our effort to help with the education of Tibetan children in exile, one of our most successful program has been the individual sponsorship program. Under this program we connect an interested person ( or group) to sponsor the education of a Tibetan child in need.

Where do sponsored children and elders come from?

We started our sponsorship program with the children at Kyitsel-ling Tibetan Children’s Education Center, Clement Town that TCEF helped to found.  As our sponsorship program expanded, we help to find sponsors for Tibetan children all over India – where ever there is need. In 2009 we focussed on finding sponsors for children in the remote village of Zuluk in Sikkim. So currently, we have two main sponsorship concentration locations in Clement Town and Zuluk and then sponsor children from many Tibetan communities spread all across India. More information on this program is available at ‘Sponsor a Child’.

Later, we added the Elders Sponsorship Program. Under this program we try to connect an interested person ( or group) with a Tibetan elder in exile who is in need.  The elders that we help come from many Tibetan communities in exile. More information on this program is available at ‘Sponsor an Elder’.

One of TCEF’s strength is our Tibetan collaboration partners in India.  They are persons that we’ve worked with over many years and through them we’re able to serve those genuinely in need.

Our sponsorship program has grown impressively  over the years. Perhaps, the most difficult challenge was finding the first twenty sponsors. Since then, every year we’ve made steady progress. Over the past three years, we’ve managed to find at least fifty new sponsorships every year.