Dharamshala, 5th September: The European Parliament awarded the 2021 Europe’s international women’s leadership award on September 1st. Eight prominent female leaders from throughout the world were honored during the occasion, including Tibetan woman Yangdu Tso, who lives in Bilzen, Belgium, Afghan Journalist Laulume Sadid, Uzbekistan’s Gulnoza Ismailova, and Israel’s Bissan Salman. The international award for women’s leadership in Europe is granted to individuals who address societal challenges with altruistic intent and are capable of supervision.
According to tibettimes, they spoke with her over the phone about her emotions about getting the award, she responded by adding that receiving this prestigious award as a Tibetan woman is both a proud and happy moment among all the ladies from all countries and people. She went on to say that she has focused all of her efforts on social services up until now and that she will continue to serve the communities with sincerity.
Yangdu Tso grew up in Tibet and went to school in China. She was accepted into the Institute of Performing Arts in Gansu, Tibet Autonomous Region, in 1981, and was able to perform the art throughout Tibet.
Gansu’s Institute of Performing Arts was given the chance to exhibit their work across Europe for three months in 1996. Yangdu Tso did not return to Tibet after the successful emanation of their rich culture; instead, she stayed in Holland and continued to study. She was chosen for the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation’s Voice of Peace evening event in Brussels in 1998. She and five other international women had performed in every European country. When His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama visited Europe, she even performed a few times.
She launched her own restaurant, Lungta Zakhang, in 1998. She later became the manager of ‘fukuta,’ a Japanese restaurant. She has a lot of very important guests in her restaurant who are experts in the field of Tibet and its international ties. She meets a lot of significant individuals through the restaurant’s business, and as a result, she’s been able to form solid relationships with those who care about Tibet and the struggle for Tibet. She was able to tour lead Westerners within Tibet in 2004, 2005, and 2006 thanks to those connections.
She worked as a translator for the Belgian Home and Police Departments starting in 2002. She was the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Tibetan Community in Belgium for six years.
She had prepared both the previous and present Sikyong’s welcome receptions, as well as His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s birthday celebrations and other key ceremonies involving Tibet and Tibetans.
Many Tibetans have come to Belgium to live in recent years, but they have had difficulty obtaining legal documentation and work. She appealed to Belgium’s interior ministry about the Tibetans’ difficulty in obtaining legal documentation. She even submitted multiple applications to the Belgian Parliament about the matter. She assisted Tibetans in obtaining legal documents that allowed them to work in industries and factories.
This Article is BASED on tibettimes’s article in Tibetan.
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