A scholarship for Sonam, a young Tibetan student

Long-distance adoptions are a key sector for ASIA, and their importance can best be explained by one of the experiences that our Long-distance Adoption Manager is going through in Tibet these days.

Today a teacher who knows ASIA (and whom I had met last year in Guide) came to the office, bringing with him a young student from his village, 18 years old, who has just finished high school and is about to leave for Beijing for university.

Sonam came third among the best students of the Hainan High School and thus had the chance to apply to the Central University for Nationalities (he wants to become a Tibetan translator).

Unfortunately, he lost his father 11 years ago and his mother remarried and was no longer able to take care of him. Sonam has lived with his grandmother, who is however very elderly and cannot afford to pay for his studies.

On 7 September this young student will leave for Beijing and the money for his first months there was collected by the inhabitants of his village who, moved by his story and proud to have such a brilliant student among them, wanted to give him at least the beginning of this experience.

This boy has no one else but his grandmother, and it will certainly be very difficult for him to obtain the government scholarship… That is why he is asking ASIA for help. Without us, he might see this opportunity slip away.
Roberta

Sonam’s university path could continue thanks to Scholarships: a very special long-distance adoption for the neediest Tibetan high school and university students.

Thanks to the Scholarship, Sonam could build a better future for himself, attend university and complete his studies and access key positions in society, giving his own contribution to the preservation and development of his culture.

Thanks to the generous help of many ASIA supporters, many young Tibetans have been able to receive scholarships and thus continue their studies.

But there are still many students waiting to be helped, and one of them is Sonam.

The long-distance adoption project

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