Background, Aims & Activities
The Tibet Relief Fund (TRF) is a UK based charity. Founded in 1960, it was the first to support Tibetans in exile. The TRF supports projects in India, Nepal and Tibet. Currently our main priority is to help Tibetan youths develop their skills to help find employment or set up small business enterprises. We aim to provide long-term support to Tibetan and other youths in Asia.
TRF is also organising the on-going sponsorship of a thousand Tibetan children and other refugees, as well as funding educational, medical, cultural and other projects within Tibetan refugee communities, and also projects within Tibet itself. We consider it vital to support the Tibetan people in exile, so that they will be able to return eventually to their country with the necessary skills and education to run their own affairs.
Working with Refugee Communities & the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
There are over 120,000 Tibetan refugees living in 53 settlements in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Over the years, the Tibet Relief Fund has financed £3 million worth of vital projects including: land purchase; capital equipment such as tractors and water tanks; construction and equipping of schools, libraries and medical centres; building renovation; support for Tibet's culture and handicrafts, vocational training; and the supply of medicine and medical care. These projects are always initiated by the refugee communities themselves or by the Tibetan-Government-in-Exile's administration at Dharamsala in northern India.
Charity Details
The Tibet Relief Fund acknowledges funding from the National Lottery Charities Board, United Kingdom for project work at the remote Tibetan refugee settlements near Miao and Tezu in north-east India. Each year we produce an Annual Review of our work which gives a broad picture of our work, as well as audited accounts. If you would like a copy of these please email us. The Tibet Relief Fund is a registered charity, number 1061834.
