Volunteer Stories

By Agnes Kugler Volunteer Job at Lha: German teacher and Contact news writer Hello, my name is Agnes. I am a student from Austria and I volunteered with Lha for

By Tony Collier Volunteer Job at Lha: English teacher There’s a saying which goes “the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”. Volunteering

By Graham and Kristy Henderson The children still talk about the Chinese government. At first, they asked why the Chinese government was so mean to the Tibetans, why didn’t they

By Dhriti Agarwal. Thanks to an existential crisis and a surge of wanderlust, the day after my half yearly exam found me squeezed in a train compartment heading towards the

By Neil Roberts. When I made the decision earlier this year to see more of the world, I knew exactly where I wanted to go first.I contacted Lha, offering my

by Ignaty Dyakov Volunteer Job at Lha: English Teacher In summer 2015 I was diagnosed with tongue cancer. Well it is a misfortune one would say, but not so rare

By Angela West-Sharma Volunteer job at Lha: German Teacher at Lha “Do you meditate? Do you practise meditation?” The question of the young Tibetan, who caught me at the Temples

 By Monika Kalytyte I find myself remembering this beautiful writer from Lithuania, who first visited Tibet in the 90’s and then revisited whenever she could till the year she passed

Lobsang Thachoe has been teaching Tibetan at LHA for just under a year and his class has been a huge success. Tibetan Class About 10 Tibetans attend religiously every day,

Last summer during my stay in Dharamkot I met Wolfgang, a German traveler on a spiritual quest. He was a keen listener and well aware of the stubbornness that sets

THIS MONTH’S VOLUNTEER STORYVolunteer job at Lha: English teacher Back home, in Ecuador, I got caught up in stress and the normal anxiety of a busy life. I felt I

In 2009, following a long-term IT contract in London, I decided to take time out. After months of job insecurity, I needed to de-stress. I went mountain-biking and ate healthier

We arrived in Delhi airport, September 2014, two mature age Australian women, to begin our first volunteering experience as well as our first time in India! Luckily we had booked

I came to volunteer with Lha beginning in May 2015. My initial plan was to stay three months but life sometimes takes unexpected turns and I ended up staying seven

Volunteer jobs at Lha: Tutoring, teaching English, conversation class, Tibet Fair Trade shop It is late on Good Friday when we arrive in a cool, damp McLeod Ganj. The mountain