Lha’s 8th clean water project at local Indian school</h1> <article> <h1>Lha’s 8th clean water project at local Indian school</h1> <p>Lha — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:52:29 +0000</p> Moving a step further with the Lha clean water project, the Lha Charitable Trust in collaboration with the Rotary Club Dharamshala, successfully installed its 8th filter water system at the Gamru village school on 6th June 2013. A local Indian school initiated in 2004, the Gamru village school aims to provide education to underprivileged Indian children from [...] </article> <article> <h1>Lha’s 6th and 7th clean water project</h1> <p>Lha — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:35:45 +0000</p> Nearly twelve hundred Tibetan refugees provided with Safe Drinking water in the past ten days. Lha staff and volunteers recently returned from spending the weekend on 4th May 2013 in the Bir Tibetan settlement, located three hours away in the Dharamsala, where they were successful in installing our sixth drinking water filtration unit. It was [...] </article> <article> <h1>Lha’s 15th and 16th Massage Course</h1> <p>Lha — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:25:51 +0000</p> Lha understands the growing number of unemployment challenges in our community. That is why one of our prime objectives is to give vocational training to local people so that they can start their own business and generate new job opportunities. In April 2013, Lha once again initiated the 15th and 16th massage courses with the help of a [...] </article> <article> <h1>Lha Clean Water Project Update</h1> <p>Lha — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:20:44 +0000</p> On March 20, 2013, the volunteers and staff of Lha were thrilled to install our fifth institutional size drinking water filtration unit at a Tibetan school located just a few hundred meters from our offices. Since most of the students there are quite young, this installation will protect this very vulnerable population from serious water-borne [...] </article> <article> <h1>My Time in Mcleod Ganj</h1> <p>Lha — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:29:03 +0000</p> Volunteer Job at Lha: Assistant teacher “The goal is still Dharamsala”; out of a journal entry of mine from early in the year. The attraction to Dharamsala (Mcleod Ganj) took root when I first learned of the Tibetan community in exile there, and from various backpackers I had met over the course of the past [...] </article> <article> <h1>Reflections on Volunteering</h1> <p>Ngawang — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:37:44 +0000</p> Volunteer job at Lha: English Teachers and Grant writing. We arrived in McLeod-Ganj in the middle of the night. Having just finished a year living in Taiwan, we were completely unprepared for the cold. We stood at the bus stop shivering, in what we had previously thought were winter coats. It was pitch black. The only [...] </article> <article> <h1>Gap year colonialism?</h1> <p>Ngawang — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:32:17 +0000</p> Volunteer job at Lha: Teacher and contributing writer. A lot of things have been said recently about volunteering abroad and not many of them are nice. A google search of “voluntourism” brings up multiple articles asserting that volunteer programmes perpetuate negative stereotypes of Western “colonialism”: a new way for the West to assert its power. [...] </article> <article> <h1>Dave’s Story</h1> <p>Ngawang — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:13:52 +0000</p> After experiencing Delhi, and inhaling that first breath of busy, smoggy and thick Delhi air, volunteers arriving in Dharamsala, weary and heavy-eyed, will find themselves totally lost in the environment, atmosphere, and people. It is easy to slip into worn clichés when describing McLeod Ganj as ‘home’, but in my relatively short experiences travelling, it [...] </article> <article> <h1>Volunteering with Lha- A Kiwi in Dharamsala</h1> <p>Ngawang — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:19:35 +0000</p> Some of my students may be short on formal education, but the one thing they are not short on is intelligence. Bright, smart, and quick to learn, they are keen to learn and easy to teach. And always ready with a smile or laugh. If they have one fault (if you can call it that) [...] </article> <article> <h1>Volunteering with Lha</h1> <p>Deirdra — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:51:48 +0000</p> It was a long, hard trek getting to McLeodGanj and I am grateful for the help of Lha’s Reception/Orientation .I arrived in Delhi exhausted from two overnight flights and was relieved to see someone waiting who knew where I wanted to go. A very friendly driver was pleased to take me zipping through the chaos. [...] </article> </main></body></html>