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2. THE FULBRIGHT/TIBETAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM:
Since September 1988, an annual scholarship grant from the US State Department’s Fulbright Program has enabled the Tibet Fund to bring nearly 300 Tibetan students and professionals to the United State to receive higher education. Tibetan Fulbright students have attended some of America’s best educational institutions, including Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Boston University and the University of California at Berkeley. In 2003, the grant supported 10 second-year students who had arrived in 2002 and began supporting the 15 new students who arrived in August 2003. The cost for supporting 15 new first-year students and 10 second-year students is around $780,000, so the Tibet Fund has to raise approximately $280,000 more each year to supplement the State Department’s annual grant of $500,000. 3. THE TIBETAN SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM: The Tibetan Sponsorship Program was initiated in the U.S. to seek sponsorships for students and for Buddhist monks and nuns in refugee settlements. With the help of the dedicated volunteer work of people like Mr. Steve Drago, the Tibet Fund has been able to provide funding to the Department of Education, the Tibetan Children’s Village and the Tibetan Homes Foundation for the sponsorship of a large number of students each year. In 2003, the Tibet Fund raised a total of $ 232,834.72 including $156,411 for Tibetan students and $76,423.72 for the sponsorship of monks and nuns in monasteries throughout India. 4. THE BLUE BOOK PROJECT: The Tibetan Solidarity Alliance Blue Book project was initiated in 1997 to solicit annual contribution from individuals who each receive a The Blue Book. This project was patterned after the Tibetan Freedom Movement Green Book which facilitates annual giving by Tibetans to support the work of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). The annual contributions of Blue Book Project participants are recorded in their books and funds raised are sent directly to the CTA to use at their discretion for their most important projects. |
5. ASSISTANCE FOR TIBETAN COMMUNITIES IN EXILE: In 2003, the Tibet Fund provided funding to support the following community development and income generation projects in India, Nepal and Bhutan:a) Tsering Elders Home, Kathmandu, Nepal: The Tsering Elders Home in Kathmandu was built to provide a home for 50 of the increasing number of Tibetan elders who have no family to care for them. His Holiness the Dalai Lama provided the seed money to purchase the land for the home, and the Tibet Fund has raised the funds, including $85,000 from the Flora Family Foundation, for construction of the buildings. The Snow Lion Foundation and the Tibetan Welfare Office, Kathmandu managed the funds and supervised the construction.
The Home was inaugurated in November 2003. Members of the Flora Family Foundation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Representative in Nepal, Mr. Wangchuk Tsering, members of the Tibetan People’s Deputies, Chairman and Secretary of the Snow Lion Foundation, Ven. Drubthob Rinpoche, members of the Tibetan local assembly, heads of various Tibetan institutions, community representatives, over 200 guests and the Tibet Fund’s President, Mr. Rinchen Dharlo attended the inauguration. The Tibet Fund recently received a request from the Department of Home in Dharamsala for an additional $30,407 to cover the cost of clothing, food and bedding for the residents, as well as salary and housing costs for 6 staff and transportation costs to bring senior Tibetans from remote areas of Nepal to Kathmandu.
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