Story of Tashi

TASHI YANGZOM
ZANSKAR

Tashi Yangzom hails from Zanskar, one of the most remote and inaccessible villages in Ladakh. Zanskar is counted as one of the most backward villages of Ladakh with no proper facilities like road, electricity, health centre, and the people do not have access to proper nutrition. It remains cut off from the rest of Ladakh during winter due to heavy snowfall and the roads remain blocked the whole winter. The only mode of transportation left is the chaddar road which permits the people to track on the ice, and reach for the isolated place, which is definitely not a safe walk back home. Since it is one of the underdeveloped villages, we find very few educated people from this region.

Tashi Yangzom comes from a poor family, supported by her father, one elder and one younger brother. Both of them are still studying. Her mother died when she was just a toddler. Since then her father has been the sole bread-winner, taking care of the family.

From the year 1992, Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) has been actively engaged in helping the masses. MIMC started the foundation for the girls’ hostel and has been taking in students and taking care of them by providing modern education along with all other necessities. Word of MIMC’s work reached Zanskar, and Tashi applied and was selected to reside and study in the school. She has been selected, taking into account her devastated family life just after her mother's death. Since then she has been in MIMC and is one of the 25 girls in the first batch of students.

Tashi had since completed her secondary schooling from Mahabodhi Residential School and was one of the best students of the class. She is known by her classmates and teachers to be dedicated, diligent, and obliging. She was then sent to Bangalore, one of the modern cities in India by MIMC to further her studies, where she completed her degree course in life-sciences. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree. She has excelled academically, and is a dedicated student with an altruistic heart. Tashi is now actively involved in helping MIMC through whatever ways she can. She aspires to render her services and as she aptly puts it, “to help Mahabodhi Society for the uplifting of education and betterment of society”.