Dharamsala, 7 June 2008: Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM) organised a four-day workshop from 4-7 June to promote environmental awareness among the Tibetan school children. Thirty-three 8th grade students from Tibetan Children's Village (TCV) Schools in Upper Dharamsala, Lower Dharamsala and Gopalpur attended the workshop held at the College for Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarah, Himachal Pradesh.
Dharamsala, 5 June 2008:Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement honoured Mrs. Tenzin Pelmo with 2008 Tesi Environmental Service Award. Mrs. Tenzin Pelmo was born on 2nd October 1965 in Shimla, India. She did her schooling till Class X in the Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharamsala and continued her 10+2 at the Central School for Tibetans in Dalhousie. After completing 12th grade she did a two-year teacher training course in Mount Hermon College in Darjeeling. In 1990 she joined TCV School as a junior teacher and later she was transferred to the TCV Teachers’ Training Centre (TTC) Dharamsala. Tenzin Pelmo-la has been working as an English instructor at the TTC since 2001. At the Centre, she was able to bring her long held interest in the environment into the classrooms.
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