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The Choglamsar–Leh centre educates and brings up Tibetan and Ladakhi children funded by various donations and by people who participate in the distance adoption programme set up by the Tibetan Children’s Village.

The Italian Amala Association organises and coordinates continual aid for the centre.

Amala means “mother” in the Ladakhi–Tibetan language and the hellebore chosen as the association's symbol, as well as being a typical flower from mountain regions, is also important in India: it is burnt in the rooms of mothers in labour as a good omen for the unborn child.

In the Ladakh region of northern India, just a few kilometres from the capital Leh, at an altitude of some 3,500 metres is a centre that is now home to 1,300 needy children from the area, regardless of their race or religion. The centre takes in orphans or nomad children without any family to support them.

Ladakh is a province in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, in the north east of India, between the Himalayas and Karakorum. Although physically, culturally and ethnically Tibetan, the area is under Indian rule. Ladakh covers an area equivalent to almost the whole of northern Italy and it is inhabited by just over one hundred thousand people.

Ongoing Italian Amala projects: thanks to contributions from the national consortium for the disposal of spent lead batteries and under the patronage of the Italian Ministry for the Environment, the Choglasmar–Leh village will be receiving solar panels for the production of electricity.  On this occasion, other material needed by the community and collected in Italy will also be sent. At the end of July, all of this will be travelling with some of the association's members on lorries along the 800 km that separate New Delhi and Leh.

Ferrino has contributed by supplying gloves and backpacks free of charge.

www.italian-amala.com