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Our Mission
TEA’s initial mission was to build the first school to serve village children in Tingri, Tibet, near Mount Everest where Thupten Dadak was born.
Tibetan Education Action (TEA) is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization created in 1995 by Thupten and Nancy Dadak as a vehicle for an array of Tibetan cultural preservation projects.
School Project in Tibet
The elementary school project was initiated in October,1995, in a direct collaboration between Tibetan villagers who served a s project trustees on the ground and TEA directors who managed funds and helped guide the project parameters. By 1996, villagers had supplied labor and utilized TEA funds to build a large adobe brick school with multiple classrooms. TEA provided school uniforms, teacher salaries and strongly supported Tibetan language classes as well as equal educational opportunity for girls as well as boys. A tea lunch program was created to ensure that villagers who sent their daughters as well as sons to school would receive a food allowance. The TEA school project, driven by the personal commitment of local villagers and supported by Tibetan Education Action was a great success. It was accredited by the Chinese school system and its students were able to advance to study at higher levels, including college.
Tibetan Education Action School in Tibet
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