| Poor and Elderly Welfare |
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The Tibetan Settlement Office (TSO) provides financial assistance to the poor and destitute Tibetansin the community to alleviate their sufferings and hardships. Currently, it provides subsistence allowance to 170 people. Most of these beneficiaries are infirm & elderly with no relatives or children to look after them.
After a survey conducted by the ex-Tibetan soldiers committee, the list of destitute ex-Tibetan forces are forwarded to the Tibetan Settlement Office for providing necessary help to them. Because the old Tibetan Army did not have a pension program, all of these ex-Tibetan soldiers are the poorest in the Tibetan community today. These ex-Tibetan solders are mostly Tibetan Volunteer Resistance Army Group who fought with the Chinese, and the rest joined the Indian Army before 1982. The Tibetan SETTLEMENT Office provides monthly stipend to 51 destitute ex-Tibetan soldiers in Dharamsala.
In 1997, we constructed an aged hostel where retired servicemen and poor aged people without families can live. However, TSO encourages the elders who have families to live with them, providing monthly stipends for their livelihood. Still there are many who can no longer earn their livelihoods and have no family to depend upon. For them, the Tibetan SETTLEMENT Office employed one social workers to address the very problems of aged people who are not able to perform domestic work and etc. In addition, the social worker helps purchase vegetables, provide emergency assistance to those who find it difficult to travel to the hospitals. There are still people who are in need of support. Your support would make a huge difference to their life by adopting an elder or by making donations for the welfare of the elderly people. You will be provided with a case history and a photograph of your adopted elder. The yearly report of the adopted elders will be forward to the sponsors. |