The Exodus of Tibetan Children

Like thousands of Tibetan children, Dholma and Sonam are refugees. Their parents made the painful decision to send them secretly to India, where they can grow up as Tibetans. Entrusted to smugglers, they crossed the Himalayas illegally, facing exhaustion, cold, the fear of arrest and the pain of leaving parents they may never see again.

The Exodus of Tibetan Children follows them at the school in Mussoorie founded by the Tibetan government-in-exile, home to about two thousand children, where they find a new family and learn about their language, history and culture.