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2008 photos
Brazil
The TOS in Brazil organized a bazaar, with donated objects and services. Here we see Jovelina Oliva and Denize Monteiro very busy serving everyone at the bazaar.
Members Erlinda Batista and Denize Monteiro (in white shirts) deliver fans and personal hygiene products to the Hospital Nosso Lar.
Kenya
The TOS and TS in Kenya have launched a project to educate children on the importance of looking after the natural environment.
Here we see Usha Shah, the Director of the TOS addressing students at the High Ridge Primary School in Parklands, Nairobi.
She talked about how trees are like human beings in that they need to be nurtured and taken care of. To look after our trees and the environment is our way of thanking the Supreme.
Present at the tree planting from left to right: Pauline (Head Teacher), Mary Anderson (Guest of Honour), Miss Sarla Maroo (Chairperson of Nairobi Lodge), Navin Shah (General Secretary of the TS in East Africa, and a teacher (High Ridge Primary School).
Here we see Mary Anderson planting a tree.
Usha Shah, the Convenor of the TOS in Nairobi, Kenya, has managed the famine relief project to support families in the village of Kitui.
Gujarat and Maharashtra regional conference, India
1. Gujarat and Maharashtra TOS Regional President, Bro. Kanti Bhai Patel (standing left), welcomes guest speaker, Bro. Mahendra P. Singhal (seated in the middle), who addressed over 50 members at their annual conference on the theme, “Why TOS and how it relates to brotherhood”.
2. As is so often the case at TOS conferences in India, a presentation was made to the needy – in this case a wheelchair.
Assam and Arunachal regional conference
The program began with a medical camp at which approximately 250 people were treated. They even had a mobile medical van equipped with X-ray and ECG facilities.
1. Consultations at the medical camp
TOS President, Tina Fiedler, handing a guest an afternoon
tea package
Successful fundraising for the TOS in Brisbane, Australia
The Brisbane TOS group in Australia supports a number of international TOS projects as well as its local project with homeless women. They are therefore frequently searching for successful fundraising ideas to enable them to make donations to these projects.
Recently they ran a cinema event that was well supported by their friends. They negotiated an excellent reduced price with a cinema, and sold tickets to a popular movie at a little more than the normal cost of a cinema ticket. On arrival, guests were welcomed with a beautifully packaged box of home-made afternoon tea treats and offered a choice of drinks. There was time before the start of the movie for guests to mingle and chat, which added to their enjoyment of the event. Since the afternoon tea was donated by TOS members, this event was a most successful fund-raiser.
Income generating skills for needy ladies in Nairobi
The TOS in Kenya have a project to give skills
to women enabling them to add to the family income. Ten ladies from 25
to 70 years of age came to the premises of the TS in Nairobi and were
shown how to make cow dung cakes to use as fuel, instead of coal. The
fuel cakes are easy and cheap to make, are environmentally friendly and
can be sold with a very reasonable profit margin.
The ladies were also taught to make dairy products: butter, ghee
(clarified butter), yoghurt (plain and with different fruits and fruit
flavours), cottage cheese (again with several flavours), lassi (a
cooling yoghurt drink) and paneer (a kind of cheese). Ways to make, pack
and sell the products were also discussed
1. Cow dung cakes
2. Cow dung cakes drying on a tree
Social welfare centre at Adyar
1. TS members awaiting the start of the Open Day celebrations
4. Free medical treatment is provided at the Social Welfare Centre for needy villagers by the doctors of the Theosophical Order of Service in Chennai.
