With sponsorship of Tibetans, there is a very direct relationship between the sponsors and recipients and over time real and true friendships are established. Deciding to sponsor a “Tibetan” also means supporting a millenary culture that is at risk of extinction. Through this relationship, at first by letter and then, hopefully, in person, you are sending a sign not only of economic support but of true solidarity for the Tibetan people.

You can choose to help a child to study or you can also sponsor a grandfather or grandmother or a young monk! Tibetan grandparents are considered to be the authentic heart of a now distant Tibet … there are many elderly people in the homes of the refugee camps, whose families have either remained behind in Tibet or who no longer exist and for these old people to know that someone, in another part of the world, is thinking of them, gives them joy and security.

The first sponsorship started 25 years ago and to the present date about 2,000 people – “grandparents”, children and monks – have been helped.