AMA-LA IS COMING!!

Such exciting news! Ama Adhe has been granted a visa to come join us at the exhibition. For those of you who don't know who she is, she's a Very Important Person. An elderly Tibetan lady from Eastern Tibet, she survived 27 years of prison by the Chinese, and once in exile, wrote a book about her experiences: Ama Adhe: The Voice That Remembers. She also just happens to be one of our staff members in Dharamsala, Northern India, so her presence here is a vital part of the exhibition. She arrives in London on Wednesday, accompanied by Tsering, who looks after our volunteers in Dharamsala and works as the data entry chap in the Office for the new arrivals. He'll be her travel companion and translator.

If you want to see Ama-la, she'll be giving at talk on Sunday April 29th at 3pm 'Tibet: a Voice that Remembers.' (venue to be announced in the next day or two)

She'll also be participating in the talk mentioned in the previous post on Wednesday May 2nd at the Sweet Tea House.

And as an extra bonus, Tibetan Youth UK and the Tibetan Women's Association are organising a talk on Friday May 4th- Ama Adhe: A Personal Account Under Chinese Occupation. Venue, Tibet Foundation, 1 St. James Market, London. 6:30pm. Refreshments provided. Admission- free.

Do come see her- there are not many women like her around any more- ones who remember Tibet before the Chinese arrived and who survived years of torture and torment. Within the Tibetan communities worldwide, she is considered a Tibetan heroine! These days she devotes her life to helping the newly arrived children from Tibet, and to prayer. She is an inspiration to see, hear and be around. Hope you get to see her while she's here.