For only $40 a month, you can sponsor a child's education. Your support contributes to a child's physical, emotional, and material well-being.
Sponsorship helps lift children out of poverty and gives them, and their families hope for a brighter future.
The Himalayan region is one of the poorest in the world. Children needing sponsorship may be orphans, or their parents may be too impoverished to send them to school.
Kunsang Choedon
"Thank you for all the immeasurable good deed you have done in raising me till graduating 12th class and funding me till now. I feel so blessed to have you in my life."
How it works
Cost
Sponsoring a child is $480 a year, for which we will send you a charitable tax receipt. Payments continue on an annual basis until the child graduates. We send $440 per year to the settlement (in two disbursements – January and June), 100% of which goes to the child or their family. We use the remaining $40 to cover our administration costs.
Correspondence
You will receive a letter from your student once each year.
Monitoring
We regularly confirm that all the sponsored children are attending school and in need of sponsorship.
Becoming a sponsor
Contact us today by e-mail at sponsorship@tras.ca, or call our office at (604) 224-5133. Our sponsorship director will give you the profiles of the children needing sponsorship.
Payment
The sponsorship fee is paid in full in January or, if you wish, divided into monthly or quarterly payments.
Length of sponsorship
Sponsorship is renewed annually until the child graduates from grade 12 or leaves school.
The sponsorship program began 60 years ago. When George and Inge Woodcock (TRAS’s founders) met the Dalai Lama in exile in 1962, his main concern was the children, many orphaned or semi-orphaned, who arrived in India with the flood of refugees from Tibet. “These are our future,” he said. “Without them, there will be no future; they need a secure place to live, food and education.” He asked his elder sister to set up an orphanage and school to care for them; thus, the Tibetan Children’s Village schools were started. His request to George and Inge was to help the children.
TRAS began sponsoring children as a means of raising funds to care for them. Many of our first sponsored children have become successful professionals who in turn are now helping those who follow.
As the Tibetan refugees were settled throughout India and Nepal, TRAS began to help non-Tibetan children in these countries as well.
History of TRAS Sponsorship
The sponsorship program began 60 years ago. When George and Inge Woodcock (TRAS’s founders) met the Dalai Lama in exile in 1962, his main concern was the children, many orphaned or semi-orphaned, who arrived in India with the flood of refugees from Tibet. “These are our future,” he said. “Without them, there will be no future; they need a secure place to live, food and education.” He asked his elder sister to set up an orphanage and school to care for them; thus, the Tibetan Children’s Village schools were started. His request to George and Inge was to help the children.
TRAS began sponsoring children as a means of raising funds to care for them. Many of our first sponsored children have become successful professionals who in turn are now helping those who follow.
As the Tibetan refugees were settled throughout India and Nepal, TRAS began to help non-Tibetan children in these countries as well.