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Volunteer Stories

Volunteer Stories

Candid thoughts from our volunteers on their experience working with us.

Blog My Time in Mcleod Ganj

My Time in Mcleod Ganj

Volunteer Job at Lha: Assistant teacher “The goal is still Dharamsala”; out of a journal entry of mine from early in the year. The attraction to Dharamsala (Mcleod Ganj) took

Blog Reflections on Volunteering

Reflections on Volunteering

Volunteer job at Lha: English Teachers and Grant writing. We arrived in McLeod-Ganj in the middle of the night. Having just finished a year living in Taiwan, we were completely

Blog Gap Year Colonialism

Gap year colonialism?

Volunteer job at Lha: Teacher and contributing writer. A lot of things have been said recently about volunteering abroad and not many of them are nice. A google search of

Blog Daves Story

Dave’s Story

After experiencing Delhi, and inhaling that first breath of busy, smoggy and thick Delhi air, volunteers arriving in Dharamsala, weary and heavy-eyed, will find themselves totally lost in the environment,

Volunteering with Lha

It was a long, hard trek getting to McLeodGanj and I am grateful for the help of Lha’s Reception/Orientation .I arrived in Delhi exhausted from two overnight flights and was

Superbe experience avec les tibetains

Etre benevole avec Lha a Mcleod Ganj c est une finalite. Je m explique. J ai commence par visiter l Inde par Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, pour ensuite prendre le train

Blog Smiling Faces

Smiling Faces

We were tired and jet-lagged when we arrived in McLeod Ganj after our journey from Southern Ireland, but awoke the next morning to the surprise of warm, bright sunshine, gleaming

Cherish Every Moment…by Paul

Lost, depressed and alone three short years ago, my day to day experience of life was an excruciating and endless cycle of suffering. I was a boy trapped inside a

Letter from a Former Lha Volunteer: My Time with Lha

Erika Patho (Belgium) Seen through the eyes of a foreigner interested in Tibetan Buddhism and culture, Dharamsala—the home of His Holiness the Dalai Lama—always evoked some special, unique and spiritual

New Perspectives by Susie Lee

As someone who’s never been to India before, my arrival in Dharamsala was a whirlwind of dynamic emotions and feelings. The moment I stepped off the bus, all of my

A Lha Volunteer’s Views on Dharamsala

Name: Mary Beth Ellis (USA)Position at Lha: Beginning French Teacher Nothing could have prepared me for the mass of humanity, horns blowing, and debilitating heat that awaited me, a lone