Lha Charitable Trust is very pleased to announce the first three recipients of our new Nursing School Scholarships from 2018 to 2020. All three have very high ranking academic achievements and come from low-income Tibetan families with limited resources. We are immensely honored and happy to be able to support their aspirations and ambitions. The three candidates are Tsering Dolma from CST Poanta School, Tenzin Nordon from TCV Gopalpur School and Tsering Choedon from TCV Bylakuppe School. They were selected by interview and are now enrolled in their chosen nursing schools: Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Chandigarh – Indraprastha Appolo Hospital, Delhi and BGS Academy for Nursing Sciences, Mysore.

Funds for this scholarship were raised by the Tulane School of Social Work student group (TSSW) who participated in Lha’s Cultural Exchange Programme here in Dharamshala last year. The scholarship is dedicated to Neysa Fenwick, a Tulane social work alum who came to Dharamshala with TSSW in 2011 and sadly died last year. Neysa’s parents Kerry and Naomi Fenwick, along with family friend Tom Hoffman, personally donated over half the funds and we are extremely grateful to them and the 2017 TSSW student group for their selfless efforts to make this nursing scholarship a reality. 

We are also happy to announce that the 2018 TSSW group is nowhere in Dharamshala working with us to develop a new project that will contribute to the long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency of Lha Charitable Trust. This is the 17th group from the Tulane University School of Social Work, New Orleans, to participate in our Cultural Exchange Programme!

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