Sustainable survival of Tibetans as a people

Welcome to Snowland Children Foundation

Snowland Children Foundation ist ZEWO-zertifiziert

We are ZEWO certified: May 2022 (more info here)

After all the preparations in the past year, we have made it. We have received the gratifying notification from the ZEWO certification authority:
The organization SNOWLAND CHILDREN FOUNDATION is Zewo-certified since May 9, 2022 and will appear in future in the charity search on the Zewo website.

Snowland Children Foundation

The foundation supports needy Tibetans outside of Tibet, whether in India or Nepal. To survive in the community, a good education and nutrition of the children is essential, but also housing conditions that allow children to grow up well. Furthermore, an environment is needed that enables these children to find a job in the agglomeration later on.

Tibetans in India

Since 1959, about 150,000 Tibetans have come from Tibet. About 100,000 currently live in India in various settlements. SH the Dalai Lama has been living in Dharamsala for more than 60 years, where another 6,000 Tibetans now live and the exile government is also domiciled. But also in South India there are large settlements and Tibetan monasteries, as well as further settlements and monasteries in North India.

Tibetans in Nepal

Tibetans who migrated from Tibet at that time have been living in Helambu for several hundreds of years. They should not be confused with the refugees from Tibet. The Tibetans (with Nepalese passport) who have been living here for a long time are generally called “Sherpa” or “Lama” with family names, probably coming from their original activity (Sherpa = porter) or origin (Lama = religious status). As a group, they are called Hyolmos.

Current projects

Nutrition training

In 2016, I (PhD nutritionist and President of the Foundation Board) found that the children were getting too little calcium (only 50% of the daily requirement!) and were very much at the lower limit when it came to protein, due to a lack of financial resources. Also some B vitamins were too little or very much at the lower limit and the girls received too little iron as soon as they reach puberty.

→ Nutrition training

→ Tibetan food pyramid

Snowland Farm in Indien

Snowland Farm in India

In 2016/17, based on nutritional analyses of the then 8,500 children in the 8 Tibetan Children’s Villages in India, we had decided to start a pilot project:

In TCV Chauntra in northern India, we wanted to build a first cowshed for 15 – 20 cows, so that the children would get fresh milk daily and thus significantly more calcium and also more protein.

Ecofarm in Nepal

We have been working in Nepal since the earthquake in 2015 – even before the Snowland Children Foundation was founded! You can find the completed projects under “Successes”.

Our latest project is an ecological farm (Eco-Farm) with guest house and Eco-Café in Timbu, only 65 km away from Kathmandu, but still a day’s journey by off-road vehicle!

Your donation helps!

ALL PROJECT-RELATED DONATIONS ARE GUARANTEED TO COME 100% TO THE DESTINATION AND ARE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PROJECT.

Best donate online right here

Many, many thanks for your donation!

Snowland Children Foundation - Donation account: Thurgauer Kantonalbank, «Donation Nepal» IBAN: CH88 0078 4296 2266 4200 1, no. 85-123-0

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