Tibetan Women's Association hosts tour in Dharamshala to highlight the plight of children, environment

Tibetan women activists are going to Delhi on three bikes and the six-day journey started on Indian Children’s Day and will end on November 20, World Children’s Day, ANI reported.

An activist told the news agency: "We are organising this appeal tour from Dharamshala to Delhi and it is a six-day tour."

"We are starting it today on Indian Children’s Day and will end in Delhi on the 20th of November, on World Children’s Day," the activist told ANI.

"We are appealing to all Indians to help us to stop colonial boarding schools in China," the activist further said.

Tenzin Yingsel, project officer of TWA told ANI, “Today we have gathered here to start an appeal tour which starts today on November 14 which is Children’s Day across India to November 20 which is celebrated as universal Children’s Day to highlight the alarming situation for Tibetan children and environment of Tibet.”

Yingsel said Tibetan children are forced by Chinese authorities to learn Mandarin.

According to reports, nearly one million  Tibetan children, who are currently a part of the government-run colonial boarding schools, are taught Mandarin language and are deprived of learning the primary language.

" When we talk about children we talk about Tibet’s environment also. Tibet is the highest and the largest plateau of Asia and it’s the roof of the world it is the origin of seven major rivers of Asia and the situation regarding the environment is a matter of great concern for all the downstream countries including India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.” Yingsel said.

“Due to the large number of damming and illegal mining, it is causing harm to ecological balance. So we are organizing this event to make the people aware of the situation, ” Yingsel added.