The Tibetan Children´s Village is situated about 8kms out of McLeod Ganj. Set up by the Dalai Lama in 1960, he was keen in providing an education to children of Tibetan refugees, orphans and to children that escape Tibet without their parents. The school in Upper Dharamsala currently has 2000 children run by 200 staff members, and five other centres have been set up across India.
On average about 850 children escape across the border each year, but concern has arisen that there has only been 15 children to make it across the border this year. It is feared that the Chinese government have launched a huge crack-down on escaping refugees.
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