I have done my best to support the Tibetan cause for many years.  I have visited Tibet twice and everywhere found cheerful, welcoming, smiling people, for whom sadness and oppression was also a fact of everday life. They have a very special place in my heart.

The plight of Tibetans is desperate. Please look at the Tibet Relief Fund (TRF) website to see what 60 years of illegal and brutal oppression by China has done to these gentle and lovable people, to the general indifference of the world.  Young men and women in Tibet are now burning themselves to death in their desperation. I weep for them.

To escape, many Tibetans make the dangerous journey on foot across the Himalaya to exile in Nepal and India. The TRF provides support for those who are most in need. Their work includes setting up and maintaining schools, medical facilities, safe water supplies, self-sustainability and development projects and cultural preservation programmes.  TRF currently has over 2,200 children under its care and also helps nearly 300 elderly Tibetans.

Please give as generously as you can.  You can donate here or via your mobile phone with code VVKP52 to JustTextGiving.  Thank you so much.