| Poor and Elderly Welfare |
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The Tibetan Welfare Office (TWO) provides financial assistance to the poor and destitute among Tibetans 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 the survey conducted by the ex-Tibetan soldiers committee, the list of destitute ex-Tibetan forces are forwarded to the Tibetan Welfare Office for 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 Welfare 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, TWO encourages the elders who have families to live 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 Welfare Office employed two social workers to address the very problems of aged people who could not able to perform domestic work and others. In addition, he helped purchase vegetables, provide emergency assistance to those who find it difficult to travel to the hospitals, and to help in care taking at the hospitals and homes. 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. |