Our goal is to introduce a formal soccer training program to the female members of the Tibetan refugee community in India in order to improve their quality of life and to foster a connection with female athletes worldwide. The Tibet Post reports on the Tibet Women's Soccer Project, of which the Bay Area Friends of Tibet is the financial sponsor. Read more .. . For more information, please visit the Tibet Women’s Soccer website Listen to an interview with Cassie Childers on BY

In September 2003 His Holiness the Dalai Lama's guidance included telling us that one of the most important things that the Friends of Tibet can do was to bring the Chinese and Tibetan people together to bridge the gap in understanding about Tibet that exists between them. Humanitarian China note of thanks for Friends of Tibet solidarity on Tiananmen 25th anniversary Photographs of Tiananmen Square Commemoration on June 4, 2011 at Portsmouth Square, San Francisco Jianglin Li

Bay Area Friends of Tibet · 1991–1993 New York Times coverage announcing the 1990 Immigration Act provision for 1,000 Tibetans A Door Opens In 1990, a historic provision tucked into the U.S. Immigration Act offered something Tibetan refugees had almost stopped hoping for: a path to America. One thousand visas — no government funding, no refugee benefits for three years — just a notarized job offer and a sponsor willing to say: we will take care of you. Washington had long