In the field of charity, he co-founded ROKPA International with Lea Wyler and her father Dr, Viet Wyler in 1980. ROKPA is Tibetan for "help" or "friend". Its motto is "Helping where help is needed." An international humanitarian organisation, it works principally but not exclusively in Tibet, Nepal, and Zimbabwe. The charitable aims of ROKPA are: "To promote Buddhism and to foster non-sectarian inter-religious dialogue and understanding. To provide medical care and therapy. To provide education. To relieve poverty.". Many of the projects described in the previous paragraphs were established through ROKPA, but there were also large-scale environmental projects,"Caring for the Environment"https://www.samyeling.org/news/environment/ as well as numerous projects to preserve Tibetan language and culture in Tibet. In Nepal, the focus was directed mainly towards feeding the homeless, and with providing a home, education, and vocational training for street-kids. In Zimbabwe and South Africa ROKPA worked to provide food, vocational training, therapy, and economic opportunity from 1994 onwards, especially to help those whose lives had been devastated by the HIV Aids crisis and political turmoil.An exploration of the need for psychotherapy among economically disadvantaged black Zimbabweans and an Assessment of the benefit of Tara Rokpa Therapy (TRT) for this group of people. PHD thesis by Jayne Pilossof (2014)
