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Longsho runs monthly activities for its youth members educating them about Tibetan festivals and current affairs. These activities also help to create a Longsho community as the members are interacting frequently. Longsho also organises a youth discussion forum with guest speakers, where Tibetan youths can freely share their views regarding communal issues, to feel empowered and enrich their thoughts. Longsho has a vital role to play in the community and believes it has the responsibility to initiate various communal activities, which will help Tibetan youths to understand the challenge of the community and tie them into its bigger network. The regular activities of Longsho are

Residential Camps

Longsho organises biannual residential camps - in the summer and winter holidays - where Tibetan school children participate over a period of 1 to 2 weeks. Methods such as brainstorming, discussions, quizzes, games, role-plays, fun station games, drama, music and talent shows are used in the Longsho camp. The atmosphere created is very special - a feeling of being part of a group makes the young people come back and take an active role in Longsho. Having a bonding atmosphere allows the informal education to take place easily and thus inspires the young Tibetans to be leaders themselves.

 

Travelling Camp

A new initiative in 2003 is 'travelling camp'. This aims to bring Longsho into the schools and outreach more children and show the work and activities of the movement. In the first half of 2003, the office workers, Jewish volunteers and a variety of leaders visited Upper TCV, Dharamsala to run an introductory session. A leadership activity was then run at TCV Gopalpur and TCV Suja in 2004, Shimla college students in 2005 and youth at Kalimpong in 2007. The participants learnt about Tibetan history, Buddhism, TIbetan unique tradition and above all the importance of culture preservation.

 

Tibetan Jewish youth exchange

Every year, in the months of July/August or December/January, Longsho youth leaders go to the UK Jewish community on an exchange programme for approximately six weeks.. In the UK, Tibetan leaders participate in informal education and leadership training in a number of different Jewish camps. Learning from the story of Jewish ‘survival and return’ and the challenges of contemporary Jewish Diaspora experience, considering relevant implications for the Tibetan Diaspora and be in the position to raise awareness of the distinct Tibetan culture, leading to the increase support to the Tibetan cause within the Jewish community.  All the programmes and courses are co-ordinated and funded by TJYE, UK Tibetan and Jewish educators.

 

Future Activities

In the coming years, we are planning to promote Tibetan traditional music and songs by organizing cultural nights and talent nights on Tibetan traditional music and folksongs. Besides we are also planning to conduct Tibetan traditional music class in Mcleodgunj to youths

We also have a plan to conduct Buddhism and meditation classes to Tibetan youths in coordination with religious institutions. We also want conduct short seminars on the background of religious festivals on particular day. Besides conducting classes and seminars, we are also planning to publish newsletter and journals on Tibetan culture and traditions.

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