Cambridge University ELST is a Cambridge University Society closely affiliated with the Cambridge-based charity of the same name. Our aim is to advance education among the Tibetan communities living in exile in India and other Himalayan peoples.

From 1997 to 2007 the ELST charity provided scholarships for Tibetans to undertake intensive English Language courses in Cambridge and ran two large-scale workshops in India. An archive of this activity is at www.elstcam.org. The ELST charity no longer runs activities but may provide block grant support to the CU-ELST Society and other similar ventures.

The CU-ELST Society was founded in 2004. The society has enabled volunteer students from Cambridge to develop and deliver educational projects in South Asia, India and the Himalayan region during the University's summer vacation. These placements and projects have been very successful and we plan to continue to run them in the future.