India has about 2.5 million people living with HIV, one of the world's largest number. To the vertex of the classification the southern State of the Tamil Nadu where have been recorded during 2008, 2650 new cases. The HIV-infected children are almost 53000.

Before the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, this land, known as the Roof of the World for its altitude of 4,900 metres, was an independent state inhabited by Tibetan Buddhists. Since 1980, over 10,000 children have crossed the Himalayas to exile in India in search of what was denied to them in their Tibetan homeland: health, education and security. The recent dramatic events of protest and repression in Tibet have exacerbated the migratory phenomenon, also involving the Tibetan Children’s Village with the consequent need for living space.


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