Jetsun Pema
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Jetsun Pema (born 7 July 1940) is the sister of the 14th Dalai Lama.
For 42 years she was the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV) school system for Tibetan refugee students.
Early life
Jetsun Pema was born in Lhasa, on 7 July 1940. She went to India in 1950 and studied first at St. Joseph's Convent in Kalimpong and later at Loreto Convent in Darjeeling from where she completed her Senior Cambridge in 1960. In 1961, she went to Switzerland and then to England to do further studies. She returned to India in April 1964.
Career
She became the President of the Tibetan Children's Villages (TCV), at the behest of her elder brother, the 14th Dalai Lama, and served in that position until her resignation in August 2006. She has been in this position for more than 42 years.
Five Children's Villages, seven Residential Schools, seven Day Schools, four Vocational Training Centers, four Homes for the Elderly, and an outreach program for over 2,000 children in exile have been listed as a result of her efforts. Overall, the TCV ignores the well-being of more than 15,000 children and youth. Jetsun Pema was elected as the Tibetan Youth Congress' first GM Meeting in 1970, and she was elected as an advisor at the Tibetan Women's Association's first General Body Meeting. She was sent by the Dalai Lama in 1980 to Tibet as the leader of the third Fact Finding Delegation and spent three months traveling all around the world. Jetsun Pema is also a member of the Governing Body of the Tibet House in New Delhi, and the Dalai Lama Charitable Trust is an umbrella fund funded by the Tibetan House of Lords.
The Dalai Lama convened a special Congress of the Tibetan People-In-Exile in Dharamshala in May 1990 to elect the Kalöns (Ministers) of Central Tibetan Administration. Jetsun Pema was one of three ministers elected and became the first Tibetan Woman Minister. She was again elected by the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies (Tibetan Parliament) in 1991 as one of the Ministers and was given the Department of Education's Minister-in-Charge. She resigned from the Kashag (Cabinet) in July 1993 and is now President of the Tibetan Children's Villages. In 1995, the Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies conferred the title "Mother of Tibet" in honor of her service and service to Tibetan children. Jetsun Pema has traveled extensively to speak to the Tibetans and their work with the Tibetan Children's Villages.