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This project aims to rehabilitate the
victims of organised
violence and torture
survivors from Tibet. Tibet House
Trust has been supporting this
project since March 1996 and has
sent over £ 100,000 for this project
to the Torture Victims Cell, a specialised
unit of the Department of
Health of Central Tibetan Administration,
Dharamsala. The
Torture
Victims Cell takes care of 25—40
such torture survivors every year.
The project provides counselling and medical
care for the new refugees, who
number between 2000—4000 every
year. All the new refugees need
immediate medical care, on their
arrival in Nepal & India, as they
have been walking for days over
the Himalayas without sufficient
food and nutrition. Many suffer
frost-bite and often their fingers,
hands, feet and legs have to be
amputated upon their arrival in Nepal.
The beneficiaries of this project
include children few years old
to elderly person 70 years old.
Since
2000, the project has been supporting
vocational and skills training.
Interest-free capital loan for
setting up of micro-enterprises has
been provided to 10 new refugees from Tibet.
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