Lea established ROKPA together with Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche and her father, the lawyer Dr. Veit Wyler. The motto of this relief organization is to “help where help is needed”. Since that time, the commitment by Lea and Dr. Akong Rinpoche has produced ROKPA projects worldwide.

Lea Wyler established a home for former street children in Nepal, and is known there as ‘Mummy Lea’. She also initiated a Women’s Workshop and started a Soup Kitchen in Kathmandu that during winters provides eight hundred meals for the needy per day. In Tibetan areas of China, she and Dr. Akong Rinpoche have arranged for schools, orphanages and clinics to be built, organized medical training projects, restored a nunnery located at five thousand meters and supported reforestation projects in the highlands.

Lea Wyler travels to the two regions in the Himalayan mountains for a few months every year. Once on site she inspects the projects in progress and set up new ones. Since ROKPA’s inception in 1980 hundreds and thousands of people have received medical aid and over a million in distress have been provided with food. She is supported by a growing team of voluntary helpers, with the result that the administrative costs are kept to a minimum.