In 2025, the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, turned 90. The International Campaign for Tibet therefore launched the ‘Compassion Rising Tour World Tour 2025‘. Reach Out took part in this global campaign and raised funds for an educational project run by one of the Dalai Lama’s foundations in war-torn Ukraine.
A library for Tibetan refugee children in Ladakh (Indian Himalayas), which aims to motivate young Tibetans in exile to read. To this end, they are developing a library operation in Choglamsar, offering books and magazines in Tibetan and English. They also organise other creative and educational projects for young people, including hard-to-reach children of nomads in the high mountains.
Tashi Lhunpo wants to expand its educational offerings. It is the former monastery of the Panchen Lama, Tibet's second-highest spiritual leader, who was kidnapped by China in 1995 at the age of six.
Manjushri designs adapted Tibetan learning materials for toddlers so that they can keep in touch with their mother tongue while in exile. We helped finance a block box with the Tibetan alphabet.
After the terrible flood in Wallonia in July 2021, we raised funds for blind flood victims.
During the Covid pandemic, foreign trips were banned. Eva therefore stepped on foot around Belgium for a Belgian charity. Straatverplegers vzw provides hygienic and medical assistance to homeless people in Brussels and Liège and, where possible and in cooperation with other local associations, contributes to their re-housing.
As Cipriano still had two years of further study ahead of him after the trip to the North Cape, we organised another cycling trip for him. Cipriano obtained his teaching qualification in early 2021. The Belgian foundation No Pega Mon, which coordinated the project on the ground, unfortunately ceased operations in 2020. As a result, we were unable to continue this project.
Cipriano, a disadvantaged boy from the island of Bubaque, experienced first-hand the dire situation and the shortage of primary school teachers on his home island of Bubaque. He was therefore desperate to become a teacher himself. Reach Out funded his studies at a college in Bissau to help him achieve that goal.
