Tibetan Children's Villages
Tibetan Children's Villages or TCV is an integrated community in exile for the care and education of orphans, destitutes and refugee children from Tibet. It is a registered, nonprofit charitable organization with its main facility based at Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, North India. TCV has a network spread across India with over 12,000 children under its care.
Dalai Lama at Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala, 1993.
View of Tibetan Children's Villages, at McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala.
Tibetan Children's Villages' 50th anniversary in Dharamsala, 2010.
Jetsun Pema is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama. For 42 years she was the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school system for Tibetan refugee students.
Jetsun Pema, 2009