As all the homes have kitchens and vegetable gardens, children learn cooking and gardening skills. For the smaller children, evening is the best time of day as they get a lot of time to play and do mischief because the home mother is busy preparing the dinner. In the meantime, the older children return home from their co-curricular activities and help complete the remaining work of the large family. After dinner and the evening studies, it's time to call it a day. Children say their prayers and go to bed.
Calmness returns to the village.
The History of the TCV Following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950 and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's flight to India, it was quickly apparent that one of the most critical needs of Tibetan refugees was finding a means to care for the many children who had been orphaned or separated from their families during the arduous escape from their homeland. His Holiness promptly recognized that the future of Tibet and its people depended upon the younger generation. With this in mind and out of concern for the miserable conditions under which so many children were suffering, His Holiness proposed that a centre of destitute children be established at Dharamsala. On 17 May 1960, fifty one children arrived from the road construction camps in Jammu, ill and malnourished. Mrs. Tsering Dolma Takla, the elder sister of His Holiness, volunteered to look after them.