HIV/AIDS AND SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE awareness AT TIBETAN SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH EAST INDIA

at the beginning of this year Department of health (CTA) has request Kunphen to help them on their project on HIV/AIDS and substance dependence awareness in Tibetan settlement in north east India. We are very glad about that opportunity and accept it with great humility. We have arranged a client to speak about his life story and a prepared him to talk to the audience. There are to visit four towns which have more than 150 Tibetan families and four Tibetan settlements. At the beginning of March our staff Mr. Tenzin woaber and our client Mr. Pema Gyalpo has left for the project along with a staff from Department Of Health.

Darjeeling (11th March 2010):- Their first stop was in Darjeeling which is located in West Bengal State of India. Darjeeling it’s known for its Tea and Tourism, Tibetans has been settling in that town every since we have lost our country. There were more than Two hundred Tibetan families and the main occupation of the Tibetans is cloth business. There is a Tibetan school administrated by CTSA (Under Department of human resource, Indian government). This school has more than 700 students and class up to higher secondary level.

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