A Part of Lha Always Stays with You
By Soumya Singh Tarang / January 2, 2019
I was told that volunteering stories are about experiences. People going to new places, meeting new people, helping people. Soon I realised volunteering stories are about people. My story starts not from when I sat for days on my laptop screen in Delhi trying to look for an escape from read more →
Always Drawn Back Again
By Sarah Gittleman / October 25, 2018
I first came to McLeodganj in 2013 after graduating from college. The plan was to stay for about five or six weeks, but by week two, I knew I couldn’t leave so soon. Some people joked that the town is “sticky” – once you visit, you’ll never want to leave. read more →
Nourishing the Soul
By Anita Paul / October 3, 2018
I have had many successful years working in the corporate space, but after recovering from a major illness in 2016, I decided that I wanted to change course and do something more fulfilling and spiritual, by helping others build their futures. Last year I left the UK and started volunteering read more →
Encouragement and Motivation
By Nivedita Nair / August 31, 2018
Volunteer Job at Lha: Contact news writer and English Conversation assistant Born and brought up in the bustling city of Bombay, I moved to Pune to pursue a degree in political science and film studies at a liberal arts college. As one can see, my upbringing has been comfortable and read more →
Learning More Than I Can Teach
By Joan K Matlock / July 31, 2018
Name : Joan K Matlock Volunteer Job at Lha: English Teacher and Personal Tutor In May of 2018, I moved to McLeod Ganj, a neighborhood in Dharamshala, Himalchal Pradesh, India. I became a volunteer teacher for three months for the Lha Charitable Trust’s Advanced English class. I loved the atmosphere read more →
Developing a Sense of Universal Responsibility
By Tiziana Zamponi / July 2, 2018
In one of his speeches His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama spoke of universal responsibility, saying that it is everyone’s job to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility and to learn to work not just for ourselves, or for our family or the nation, but for the good of read more →
A Deeper Experience through Volunteering
By Corinne Dobinson / June 5, 2018
Name: Corinne Dobinson Volunteer Job at Lha: News writer, tutor and conversation class assistant I had the pleasure of volunteering for Lha in April. I was involved in tutoring two students in conversational English, joining the drop-in conversation class in the late afternoons and writing for Contact magazine. I stayed read more →
I’ll Be Back Soon!
By Michel Estienne / May 2, 2018
The first time I arrived in McLeod Ganj it was in the nineties. I was on the top of the bus’s roof as we stopped in the main square and the first thing that struck me was how everybody around me was smiling and looking happy. I felt at home read more →
Volunteering from Wales
By Ailsa Newcombe / January 31, 2018
Name: Ailsa Newcombe Unlike most of Lha’s volunteers I have never been to McLeod Ganj, nor India, nor Tibet, but I have been volunteering for Lha for eight months now. I live in Wales, part of the United Kingdom, on the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. Like McLeod Ganj, read more →
A Personal and Professional Achievement
By Amelia Rozelle / January 31, 2018
Volunteer Job at Lha: French teacher and contributer to Contact After travelling a while in Asia, I was in Indonesia and supposed to go to Malaysia next. But India had been calling me very strongly for a few months… When I decided to change all my plans for India, the read more →