Thinlas Chorol
Thinlas Chorol was born in Takmachik, Ladakh, India on May 6th, 1981 and is the Indian Social Entrepreneur. At the age of 43, Thinlas Chorol biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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When ALS stopped doing treks for individuals and small groups, Chorol continued to work freelance. After completing various courses in mountaineering and other outdoor activities, she started to get more and more work as a freelance trekking guide, and tourist started to ask for female guides.
In 2009 she founded the "Ladakhi Women's Travel Company" in order to bring more women into the field, and to promote ecotourism in Ladakh. And through Homestays, expose women in the village to people and cultures they would normally not have as much contact with. On the company's website, it promotes itself as being "The first female owned and operated travel company in Ladakh". In order to train more guides to come into the Ladakhi trekking industry, the company bring younger, inexperienced women along as porters.
In January 2014, Chorol was awarded the Indian Merchants Chamber Ladies' Wing's Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar, an awards that is give in recognition of outstanding Indian female rural entrepreneurs. The award was presented to Chorol in Mumbai by founder and chairperson of the Arghyam Trust, Rohini Nilekani. Chorol is the first person in the tourism category, the first Ladakhi, and the first women from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to receive the award that was first conferred in 1993.
In January 2015, the Indian news website, The Weekend Leader in collaboration with Vellore Institute of Technology named Chorol their "Person of the year" 2014. She was selected for her contributions to the development of tourism in Ladakh and for creating job opportunities for Ladakhi women. The award was presented to her at a ceremony at VIT university on 11 March 2015 by K. Vijay Kumar, Special Security Adviser, Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
In 2014, Chorol cofounded the society "Ladakhi Women's Welfare Network" and became its first President. The society was set up to work for the welfare of women, to support the victims of crimes directed towards women and help educate them on their legal rights.
Her company, the "Ladakhi Women's Travel Company" uses mainly Homestays, a way to help women in the villages generate income for themselves.
In 2007, Chorol was awarded the "Sanjoy Ghosse Ladakh Women Writers' Award" by the non-governmental organization Charkha Development Communication Network. Her article "Beyond conventional tourism", about the impact of tourism in Ladakh has been published in the magazine Epilogue. And later, the magazine published her article, "A Trek Through Life" about her own experience from the village to becoming a trekking guide in an otherwise male dominated field.
In 2014, Chorol was also published in the Ladakhi magazine "Stawa", writing on the issue of rape in Ladakh and the effects of the Ladakhi caste system.