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 | The Forgotten Heart of Africa
While Chad, Sudan and the DRC attract regular media attention the Central African Republic (CAR) seems to be completely forgotten.
This country, the size of France, suffers from a decade long civil war. More than a 100 thousand people have fled the violence in their villages. They live virtually unprotected in the bush.
Travel is extremely difficult due to the constant violence and banditry throughout... see more » | | |  | The School of Hope
On March 17, 1959, His Holiness the Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, where he established the Tibetan government in exile. On May 17, 1960, Thubten Ninji, the Dalai Lama’s emissary, returned from the Jammu encampment with 51 children. The Dalai Lama then established “ the first day-care for refugee children” fully supported by her sister Jetsun Pema since 1964. Eleven years later, this initiative... see more » | | |  | Tibetan Monks Diaspora
The Tibetan Diaspora number is estimated at up to 150,000 refugees...
Based on 11 trips to Dharamsala, India & Tibet between 1999 and 2016. "Tibetan Diaspora Monks" is part of the greater Tibet Land of Exile Project.
Patricio Estay, inspired by his experience as a political exiled and by his meeting with Henri Cartier Bresson in 1986 in Paris, started Tibet Land Of Exile,... see more » | | |
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