Education

The Future of Tibet Depends On Education

Sengdruk Taktse Student Writes on Chalkboard

Throughout modern Tibet, many Tibetans live daily in poverty. Faced with an uphill battle to improve their circumstances, they find they can never reach their goals. Families face adverse circumstances and tragedies, and many are forced to give up their children or they find that they simply can’t take care of them anymore.
There is no way to improve this situation except through the education of Tibetan children, in particular those children who have lost parents, or simply cannot afford to go to school.
Ultimately, education will improve their circumstances and also server to uplift and preserve Tibetan culture as a whole, which is in grave danger of being lost forever.

Sengdruk Taktse School

Sengdruk Taktse School Photo - 2006

Built at the recommendation of Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok in 1999, Sengdruk Taktse is home to nearly 300 children who cannot afford to pay for school, or who have no parents to look after them.

In 2008 the first batch of 9th grade graduates completed their education at Sengdruk Taktse School and had the highest standardized test scores out of any school in the entire Golok region.
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