Lha organized Photography class with generously sponsored by Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The class was taught by Ms. Orion Bridgehouse who is a Canadian Photographer and writer who has spent the past eight years living and working in New York City, USA.

Lha has organized and completed its 8^th Massage course program for Lha students. The first dates for the course ran from the 19^th October to 30^th October 2009 for seven students and the second course ran from 2^nd November to 13^th November 2009 for six students under the guidance of professional massage therapist Ms. Anne Juliet. Anne has over ten years of experience and has great knowledge in this field.

As a part of Lha’s Health and Hygiene Services & Education program, Lha organized a free of charge eye checkup and glasses project with the target budget to help 120 people within the community. The project started from September and was supposed to be valid until the end of October. However, since we exceeded the budget and number of people before our estimated time frame, unfortunately the project had to be ended much earlier.

From 2002, Lha has been organizing a mutual learning exchange program every year for about 70 – 100 foreign students. So far, the main groups have been coming from American institutions and colleges which include Tulane University, Centenary College and Loyola University New Orleans. We have also had several students come from Taiwan Christian University and Rustic Pathways, which is an organization that offers high school students the opportunity to travel and study abroad in a variety of cultural exchange programs.

Lha is giving Massage courses on yearly basis for 15 to 20 interested Tibetan’s. So far, there are approximately 70 people who have learnt the massage course through Lha with different associations.