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TEAM in South India 21July-14Aug, 2008

In 2008 TEAM visited South Indian Tibetan settlements twice, January 1-30 and 21 July to 14 August, to promote environmental awareness among the Tibetan people. Workshops and talks were given to the people of Dhondenling in Kollegal; Rabgyalling in Hunsur; Lugsum Samdupling and Dekyi Larso in Bylakuppe; and Doeguling in Mungod. The workshops were well attended and received excellent evaluation from all sectors including settlement officers, monastic communities and public. They all requested us to visit at least once every year.During the workshops the following presentations, all in Tibetan, were made:

 

Celebrating the World Environment Day and TEAM’s 3rd Anniversary 7 June, 2008 Celebrating the World Environment Day and TEAM’s 3rd Anniversary

Dharamsala, 7 June 2008: Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM) organised a four-day workshop from 4-7 June to promote environmental awareness among the Tibetan school children. Thirty-three 8th grade students from Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) Schools in Upper Dharamsala, Lower Dharamsala and Gopalpur attended the workshop held at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, Himachal Pradesh.

Mrs. Tenzin Pelmo Honoured with 2008 Tesi Environmental Service Award5 June, 2008 Mrs. Tenzin Pelmo honoured with 2008 Tesi Environmental Service Award

Dharamsala, 5 June 2008:Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement honoured Mrs. Tenzin Pelmo with 2008 Tesi Environmental Service Award. Mrs. Tenzin Pelmo was born on 2nd October 1965 in Shimla, India. She did her schooling till Class X in the Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharamsala and continued her 10+2 at the Central School for Tibetans in Dalhousie. After completing 12th grade she did a two-year teacher training course in Mount Hermon College in Darjeeling. In 1990 she joined TCV School as a junior teacher and later she was transferred to the TCV Teachers’ Training Centre (TTC) Dharamsala. Tenzin Pelmo-la has been working as an English instructor at the TTC since 2001. At the Centre, she was able to bring her long held interest in the environment into the classrooms.

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Our ancestors viewed the' earth as rich and bountiful, which it is. Many people in the past also saw nature as inexhaustibly sustainable, which we now know is the case only if we care for it.Read More

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His Holiness Message & Speech on Enviroment

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Environment Awareness: A Part
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2008 Essay competition.Funded by Centro Lungta Switzerland
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first prize winner  Phuntsok ix-D
first prize winner  Tsenthar Gyal
first prize winner  Lhundup Gyatso
first prize winner  Wangchen Dorjee
TEAM ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE AWARD Tibetan Community receives Indian Award
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