In 2001 I was working in Beijing and joined a group of 20 people on a mission to Qinghai in northern Tibet, to take school supplies and support the children of Tibet. The Swiss ambassador to China had acted as a go-between Tibet and China after the invasion. The Swissair station manager in Beijing, Marcus Shmidt and his wife Anne-Marie carried on the good work and led groups to visit the new schools and children. Our guide Kunga was a lama who represented the Dalai Lama in negotiations with the Chinese government.
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