Mission Statement

Tibetan Buddhist Charitable Aid, Inc. (TBCA) is recognized by the I.R.S. as a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation and by the State of New York as a not-for-profit charitable corporation.

The founders of TBCA absorb all operating costs and expenses so that 100% of all donations are sent directly to the charitable projects.

TBCA was created to help support the ongoing humanitarian projects initiated and directed by Geshe Pema Dorjee. These projects are located in remote and impoverished Himalayan areas of India and Nepal where there is often no other source of help. Some of the projects include:

• Designing, delivering, and installing ventilated stoves to replace open fire cookstoves.
• Sponsoring mobile medical clinics to provide medical care for the sick and injured.
• Building and operating schools.
• Providing educational scholarships.
• Helping villagers to learn jobs, skills, and crafts.
• Creating safe houses for street girls.
• Educating villagers and children to protect themselves from human trafficking.
• Supporting a drug rehabilitation center.
• Helping to create orphanages.
• Providing safe water and sewage systems.
• Supporting the Bodong Monastery and School for boys and a Buddhist Nunnery for girls.
• Giving funds, supplies, and care to the elderly.
• Establishing a Youth Center at a Tibetan refugee camp.