The president of the foundation board is a nutritionist with a doctorate (universities in Canada and Munich) and therefore ideally suited as a specialist for the nutrition projects in the Tibetan Children’s Villages (TCVs). She can not only do the nutritional analyses herself, but also evaluate them.
She was also able to put together the nutrition trainings, the creation of the training book with 10 lessons and the latest creation, a “Tibetan Food Pyramid” herself (together with the Science Council of TCV Chauntra). She has more than 35 years of experience in the scientific field of child nutrition of Nestlé Company at home and abroad, conducted studies on the subject herself, and spent 5 years in Australia, where she was responsible for the scientific supervision of 8 countries in Southeast Asia. Prior to that, she headed the Nutrition Department of Nestlé Switzerland for 10 years. She was born in Germany in 1953. She is a Buddhist.

Ulrich Preysch (lic.rer.publ. HSG St. Gallen) was born in 1944 in Winterthur, Switzerland, and looks back on 40 years of experience at home and abroad in various areas of business. After graduation, Ulrich started his long business career with Hoffmann La Roche in Hong Kong. After 5 years in Hong Kong, he continued his career in a management position for a Roche subsidiary before joining the Nestlé Group. His last professional years were also spent in Australia, where he was the “Country Business Manager” for the Child Nutrition Division in Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands. He is responsible for the finances of the Snowland Children Foundation and maintains contact with the Eastern Switzerland Auditing Company and the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations.

Zakay Tsering Reichlin-Härri was born in Tibet in 1956 and came from Tibet via India to Switzerland at the beginning of the 1960s as one of 160 children in the so-called “Aeschimann Action”. There he grew up in an adopted Swiss family, but had contact with his Tibetan parents in India. After high school, he attended the teacher training seminar in Rickenbach, Schwyz and supplemented it with studies in remedial education in Zurich. Today he works as a remedial teacher at the SHP/ISF school in Ebnat-Kappel.
He is very active in Tibetan circles, has been on the board of VTJE (Tibet Youth Europe) for 10 years and together with Veronika Koller he leads the East Section of GSTF, Society for Swiss-Tibetan Friendship, where he was also on the board for 10 years. In addition, he is active in his village community and was, among other things, church administrator of the parish Neu St, Johann/SG.

Ruth Maria Schweizer-Kielholz was born in Zurich in 1948 and has a very international background: Not only did she successfully graduate from Davies’s School in London with the Cambridge First Certificate, but she also worked for several years as a flight attendant at Swissair. Later, she spent many years abroad at the side of her husband, who, among other things, managed the business in Hong Kong and later Singapore at Crédit Suisse. In addition, she was always active herself, not least in many charitable areas such as refugee aid (Vietnamese boat people), home for the blind in Singapore, or as a founding member of the Swiss Women’s Association in Singapore. Privately, Ruth is a gifted painter of abstract paintings, which she conjures up with ever new techniques and motifs on her large canvases.

Tendar Shitsetsang was born in 1965 in Northern India in one of the British “hill stations and came to Switzerland at the age of 13. Since his family was very closely tied to the Tibetan government in Tibet, they had to leave Tibet for India practically at the same time as SH the Dalai Lama (1959). Tendar has devoted himself to the martial arts of karate and fitness. He is a certified Safs fitness trainer on the one hand and a karate instructor IKS/SKF on the other. Even today he is driving two tracks: On the one hand he is leading the Shotokan Karate School in Rickenbach (Wil) as a Swiss Olympic Member and on the other hand he is running his own Fitness Center “MY GYM – The Fitness Family” since 2010. For many years he was bodyguard SH Dalai Lama whenever he visited Switzerland and still runs marathons at the age of 56!

Dicky Yongzom Tethong was born in 1960 in Kalimpong in North-West India. At the age of 6, she came to Switzerland to live with Tibetan foster parents. After graduating from high school, she first worked as a management secretary at Geberit and later at Padma, a company that has been producing herbal medicine based on the Tibetan constitutional teachings in Switzerland for over 50 years. For 5 years Dicky then even worked as assistant to the personal representative SH es Dalai Lama in Zurich. Since 1995 she has been the team leader of the Migration Office in Zurich. In addition to the diverse and exciting professional activities, Dicky has volunteered for various Tibetan organizations, such as Tibetan Youth in Europe, Tibetan Women’s Organization, GSTF, and others, always serving on the board.