The Trust is seeking to expand this programme through increased support from the international community. Degrees range from three to five years. Subjects include Medicine, Law, Business, Engineering, Social Science and Teacher Training. Transit School in Dharamsala Funds were sent to buy extra nutritional food for refugees studying at the Transit School in Dharamsala. The Transit School provides a basic education for newly arrived adult refugees who have been denied an education in Tibet.
Further support is needed to provide books and improve basic living conditions of the school.
The Tibetan community continues to face an influx of traumatised, new refugees who have crossed the Himalayas in search of education and religious freedom. Most Tibetan refugees escape Tibet into Nepal, where they are directed to the refugee reception centre in Kathmandu. The reception centre provides the refugees with food and shelter for a few days, while arrangements are made for their journey to India. In 1997 the Tibet House Trust sent donations to provide new mattresses and blankets for the 171 beds at the Reception Centre in Dharamsala, where new refugees from Tibet stay after arriving from Nepal. Due to the growing number of new refugees the reception centres are increasingly stretched meeting the needs of these refugees and even more so the torture victims who require immediate care.