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Background
At
present it is estimated that 130,000 Tibetans live in exile
in agricultural settlements and cluster communities, which
are spread all over India, Nepal and Bhutan. Most of these
are located in remote, impoverished, rural areas with little
or no infrastructure. The numbers are ever increasing and
between 1989 and 1993, 12,500 new refugees arrived from Tibet,
the majority of whom are below the age of 25. There are 106
kindergartens, 87 primary schools, 44 middle schools, 21 secondary
schools and 13 senior secondary schools with total of 25,000
students.
Whilst
literacy rates are high, about 90% and the general broad
level of education is good, it is not supported by career
counseling, comparable personal development, creating 'a
disappointment gap'.
Tibetans
in India are still under the status of refugees and therefore
deprived of any benefits allowed to the normal citizens
of the host country including job opportunities in government
and semi government organizations.
The
exile administration is providing basic education with the
help of foreign aids and the host government. But there
is not a single organization to address the disappointment
gap, which is driving the youths into frustration. Since
this has become a social problem and hence needed to be
addressed by a social organization and hence the need to
start an NGO.
We
believe in the saying" Give a man fish and he will
ask you for more; teach him to fish and you can leave him
to it"
We
aim to work in close coordination with the exile administration
and supplement to the efforts being made by the administration.
The number of educated youths is growing every year. A dynamic
community, fighting to preserve its own unique identity
and at the same time support their families in Diaspora
is a real problem.
The absence of consistent educational and career counseling
and forum for job placement and creation in the exile community
are reflected in the mood of the present generation. Especially
Tibetan youths in India today are facing the problem of
uncertain future, lack of vision and worst, having to support
their family. Since they graduate from our community schools,
they are educated and decent but lack expression and communicating
skills.
YEI
is formed to address the immediate problem of empowering
the youths to find or create a meaningful sustainable livelihood
in the exile community. It is aimed to bring away the youths
from the aid culture to self-empowerment.
It
is also aimed at creating a culture of social service in
our community, which is almost absent today. It is registered
in Delhi as a non-profit, non-political, educational and
social trust.
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