Dawa 15
Dawa is a student and the eldest son of a barley farmer. Although responsible for his family's herd of goats, he spends most of his free time reading - especially anything written in Tibetan. He proudly showed me a well-worn copy of an English-Tibetan phrase book that a western traveler had given him two years before.

Photo by Phil Borges
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