SOS Children in India for Tibetans
We have 19000 Tibetan children in exile in our care. The refugee children from Tibet make their way into India over the Himalayas. SOS Children has built seven villages (including the largest SOS Children’s Village in the world) and seven schools to help them. The schools are open to all Tibetan children, including those whose parents have survived with them.
SOS Children started its first village in Leh, Ladakh early 1970s. The second SOS Children's community for Tibetan children was built in the village of Chhorepatan near Pokhara in 1978. SOS Children's Village Mussoorie opened in 1982, a second village in Mussoorie has since been opened nearby. An SOS Children’s Village and school has been built at Bir, 50km from Dharamsala, the funds for the construction of which were raised by the Tibetans themselves, and with a contribution by the Dalai Lhama. SOS Children's Village Dharamsala for Tibetan children lies some eight kilometres outside the town at the foot of the Dhauladhar Mountains, part of the Himalayas. It has a total of 43 family houses, a community house, several auxiliary buildings and a baby house. More than 2,000 children and youths live in SOS Children's Village Dharamsala alone. SOS Children's Village Sanothimi is located on the road leading from Kathmandu to the old temple city of Bhadgaon. SOS Children's Village Sanothimi consists of 16 family houses. SOS Children also have as SOS Children's Villages for Tibetans at Gopalpur.
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