Early morning in Delhi, a man was slowly waking up. His bed was on the edge of a very busy street. Lots of people in the city slept on the grass medians, sidewalks, and parks. People everywhere.
Carrying home the groceries, gracefully.
The laundry facilities at the Tibetan Children's Village. Each household hosts 30 children .
The allopathic (western-style) hospital in Dharamsala is called Tibetan Delek Hospital. I urge you to click on this photo below to see it bigger. The patients standing on the balconies are wearing masks because they have TB. This hospital also has a department committed to serving victims of torture. Many, many Tibetan refugees were tortured by Chinese forces in Tibet. Tibetan Delek hospital also has departments for surgery, obstetricts, etc. It serves Indian and Tibetan people in the region, and it is severely underfunded. If you want to learn more, go here.
This simple entrance is the welcome center for refugees coming out of Nepal and Tibet. Every year since the Chinese occupation, 1950 to 2007, several thousand refugees streamed out of Tibet. Since the Chinese olympics in 2008, the borders were locked down and Tibetans have been unable to leave. Now, only a few hundred escape each year. The situation is dire.
And now that I'm home? I'm grateful for streetlights, traffic control, clean water, my right to vote in a democracy, the reminder to simplify, the peaceful example of the Tibetans, and most of all I am grateful for perspective.
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