Dolma Yangchen (born 1959 in Tibet) is the president of the

Tibetan Women's Association The Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) is a women's association based in McLeodGanj, Dharamshala, India. The group was officially formed on 10 September 1984 in India, by Rinchen Khando Choegyal, a former Tibetan Youth Congress activist, although ...

(TWA).

Career

Dolma Yangchen studied at the

Bangalore University Bangalore University (BU) is a public state university located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The university is a part of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and affiliated by Univers ...

before she began volunteering for MYRADA, a non-governmental organisation working to improve the lives of rural people in southern India. She later accepted a job with the organisation over a more lucrative one she was offered with a bank. With MYRADA Yangchen worked to establish women's self-help groups in the villages. She married in 1983 and left the organisation in 1986 to work with her husband. In 1995 she took a job at the Lugsung Samdupling Tibetan settlement, where she would remain until 2009. Yangchen was primarily involved in improving the agricultural prospects of the settlement and led an irrigation project that allowed for the cultivation of bananas, chillis and ginger for the first time. She also taught evening classes to local children. Yangchen is a member of the

(TWA), leading her regional chapter for six years and being a member of its central executive for three years. She was elected president of the TWA in May 2015.

References

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