In 2008 The Lotus Flower Trust, with financial support from TFWA Care began converting a former elephant house and old school at Akaash Ganga Shankool into a skills centre for local youths to learn a trade. The next phase of the project there will include adding staff quarters and building a computer room where older children can develop IT skills essential to enhancing their employability.

In 2010 His Holiness Togdan Rinpoche asked The Lotus Flower Trust to help in building a home for destitute children in Nalanda. The project, supported by TFWA Care, includes a school for 100 children from the some of the most remote and desolate areas in India. Unfortunately the foundations were washed away in severe floods in early 2011, and work has been interrupted for several months as a result.

This year, the Trust began construction of a home and school in Bakshi Panch for 125 children from the lower castes and families of subsistence farmers. The school replaces an old home that has now been demolished. Several children have already moved into the home, from the one-room hovel they shared previously. The rest of the children will move in when construction is completed in early 2012.

Another TFWA Care funded project is an English-speaking school in the remote province of Ladakh, on the border with Tibet. The school, due to open in 2012, will provide training to greatly improve the employment opportunities for the predominantly non-English speaking local population. It will also train teachers in English and will thus enhance opportunities for children throughout the region.