Switzerland 2015. Aeschimann children from Tibet (44 images)

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Switzerland. The Aeschimann's children are a group of women and men who arrived 50 years ago in Switzerland to receive custody on a private initiative by an influential Swiss industrialist, Charles Aeschimann. In 1962, Charles Aeschimann agreed with the Dalai Lama to take 200 children and place them in Swiss foster homes and give them a chance for a better life and a good education. Most of the children still had parents in exile or in Tibet, just a few were orphans. The story is about three...
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