The money generated goes into directly supporting programmes that are outlined by the Dalai Lama as key to sustaining the refugee community -- preserving the cultural identity, education and keeping alive the political struggle.
The funding from the US State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration pays for Tibetan schooling and Fulbright scholarships for courses in the US, while the same department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs pays for preserving the Tibetan identity.
There is direct support from organisations such as the Norwegian Church Aid to fund the Dalai Lama's middle-way approach (to seek autonomy and not independence from China). Finally, the same Norwegians are funding the attempt to revive Tibetan agriculture through organic methods.
Image: An exiled Tibetan with his face painted. | Photograph: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
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