It was where he, his parents, grandparents, extended family and neighbors gathered for daily prayers, community events and annual celebrations.
Now Dulal wants such a sacred space in the Beehive State, where he can join with about 2,000 Bhutanese refugees to practice their faith, preserve their traditions, and pass on their language.
“Our younger children are forgetting how to speak it,” he says, “and our senior people are isolated and depressed in their apartments because they have no place to practice their rituals.”
The organization’s aim is to “defend the constitutional rights of refugees who have been discriminated against on the basis of religion, ethnicity or national origin.