An Honour and a Privilege
By Migmar Dolkar / July 19, 2014
Volunteer job at Lha: English teacher, elementary class. I didn’t know anything about Lha when I reached Dharamsala in December 2012 and went to ask for a volunteer job. I was nervous as I was asking for a job for the first time, even though it was a volunteer job. read more →
Finding it all here in McLeod Ganj
June 19, 2014
Volunteer job at Lha: English Intermediate Class, English Advanced Class and Contributing writer It would be impossible to do justice to the kaleidoscope of cultures and beliefs that one finds upon arrival in McLeod Ganj. So where to begin? The cornerstone of my time in Dharamsala has been teaching the English read more →
Unforgettable Experience
By Apurva Kashyap / December 12, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: English Intermediate Class and Contributing writer When I first packed my bags and decided to leave Delhi in search of the cliched ‘peace’ that we often find our hearts devoid of, I had no idea I’d get so much more than that. On my first day read more →
From Australia to McLeod Ganj
By Maddi Check / October 22, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: English Elementary Class and English Conversation Class After nearly three and a half years of travelling, I decided to put my teaching skills and awful singing voice to good use. I am from Australia and somehow found myself living in Mcleod Ganj and teaching Elementary English read more →
Telling Tales
By James Thomas / August 9, 2013
Volunteer Job at Lha: Writer and English Conversation Class. I’ve met so many wonderful people here from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures. Most of the tales I have heard are too tragic to fully comprehend. Working with refugees and the exiled Tibetan community has certainly been one read more →
How two Israelis started giving conversation classes at Lha
By Dr Aliza Florenthal / July 10, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: French Conversation Class His Holiness the Dalai Lama teaches us about compassion, donating, and doing something useful for the benefit of others in our short life. That is how my daughter and I came to step into the Lha office. At Lha you are received with read more →
“To Experience and Learn”: My Month in Dharamshala
By Shraddha Gupta / June 25, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: Contributing Writer and English Tutor. People have different reasons for volunteering – my reason for living this opportunity was to “experience and learn”. My thanks go to Lha, because although from the outside, what Lha does might look like a drop in the ocean, I found read more →
My Time in Mcleod Ganj
By Nate Richter / May 29, 2013
Volunteer Job at Lha: Assistant teacher “The goal is still Dharamsala”; out of a journal entry of mine from early in the year. The attraction to Dharamsala (Mcleod Ganj) took root when I first learned of the Tibetan community in exile there, and from various backpackers I had met over the read more →
Reflections on Volunteering
By Francesca Leaf and Alfredo L Aguirre / April 28, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: English Teachers and Grant writing We arrived in McLeod Ganj in the middle of the night. Having just finished a year living in Taiwan, we were completely unprepared for the cold. We stood at the bus stop shivering, in what we had previously thought were winter read more →
Gap year colonialism?
By Lisa Bell / April 6, 2013
Volunteer job at Lha: Teacher and contributing writer. A lot of things have been said recently about volunteering abroad and not many of them are nice. A google search of “voluntourism” brings up multiple articles asserting that volunteer programmes perpetuate negative stereotypes of Western “colonialism”: a new way for the read more →