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| NEW | Violence against women in India - On January 11, Sri Murlidhar C. Bhandare, Governor of the State of Odisha in India, launched the latest project of the TOS in Bhubaneswar, “Change the mind-set to stop violence against women.” | MAR 2013 |
| SHE – A new TOS project at Adyar ...The SHE Project aims to address the health and vitality issues of the underprivileged. The first step has been to conduct a battery of tests as part of a ‘Master Health Check-up’ package for employees and contract workers at the Adyar Headquarters. The process was carried out at Precision Diagnostics, which is a part of the Medall group. The centre has state-of-the-art facilities... | NOV 2012 | |
| Promoting the application of theosophical principles - funerals. Following its Annual General Meeting in May, the TOS in France organised a seminar on a rather delicate theme: Burial, cremation and alternative funeral services. The seminar attracted more than 50 participants keen to gain a theosophical perspective on cremation in a predominantly Roman Catholic country where burial is the traditional practice. | AUG 2012 | |
| Working with a village in Hungary - In recent issues we have brought two news items on the youngest of our TOS groups – the TOS in Hungary, which was officially registered as a non-profit organisation in June 2011. As reported, their first long term project was the ‘adoption’ of a flood-affected village with the blessing and support of the town’s municipal officers. | MAY 2012 | |
Two more distributions of TOS emergency aid for starving families in East Africa - Since September 2011, the TOS in Kenya has been providing emergency aid to families suffering current acute food shortage in a village to the east of Nairobi. At the end of 2011, the third and fourth distributions of food were accomplished together with further negotiations to set up a cooperative to manage a bore well and other village activities. Mrs Usha Shah, TOS convenor in Nairobi, Kenya, provides the following reports of these latest distributions in which she was personally involved. |
FEB 2012 | |
Second distribution of TOS emergency aid for starving families in East Africa |
DEC 2011 | |
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TOS emergency aid for starving families in East Africa - In the face of the current acute food shortage in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, the TOS in Nairobi has undertaken a project on behalf of us all. The town of Kitui, 130 km east of Nairobi, was selected and a church identified as local partner.... |
OCT 2011 | |
The TOS in Finland: Supporting educational projects - The TOS in Finland has been energetically raising awareness about three spiritually oriented educational projects it has chosen to support: a children’s home in southern Finland, the Olcott Memorial School and the Social Welfare Centre at Adyar, Chennai, India. |
JUN 2011 | |
The Educational and Social Programmes of the TOS in Pakistan - With every passing year, the TOS in Pakistan only strengthens its resolve to continue with its various programmes unimpeded by the turmoil that engulfs the country, and often pitches it into the world's headlines. |
A:PR 2011 | |
| The Alchemy of Music & Dance - Once a year the Sunshine Coast Lodge of the Theosophical Society in Queensland, Australia stages an event to bring the message of theosophy to coast residents and at the same time raise funds for the TOS projects it supports. There is another unintentional benefit for all who contribute to making this day such a success – the simple joy of engaging in service and building a nucleus of brotherhood. | JAN 2011 | |
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Collecting books for the Golden Link College library- a project of the Adelaide TOS and the TOS in New Zealand. |
DEC 2010 |
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Drinking water for all at Adyar - Until this past June, residents and workers at the TS’s international estate at Adyar have relied on ground water for their drinking supply. The Social Welfare Centre situated just outside the main gate of the compound also depended upon it. Gradually this water has become less suitable for drinking. In early June, the TOS in Chennai facilitated the installation of a reverse osmosis water purification unit on the TS estate... |
OCT 2010 |
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Lumen School opens in the Philippines - A new theosophically-oriented school has just opened in a poor farming district of Bago City, gateway to the western province of the island of Negros in Central Philippines. |
JULY 2010 | |
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Update on Seeing Eyes for Everyone - In launching this programme in September 2007, the TOS Chennai Region aimed to provide eye care for as many disadvantaged people in and around the city as possible. So far, screening for vision impairment has been carried out in five schools and two slum areas, totalling some 8,500 school children and slum dwellers. (more...) |
MAY 2010 | |
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Service activities in the Ojai Valley - Krotona is known all over the TS world as a spiritual centre where members can go on private retreat or to study theosophy at its school.... What is less known is that the residents engage in modest local community service projects (more...) |
MAR 2010 | |
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Can We Do Anything About This? - Extracts from a talk given at the first international conference of the TOS on the subject of mobility aids in his country by Mr P.S. Mital National Secretary, TOS India |
JAN 2010 | |
| Finland: Two projects - The TOS in Finland is one of our most recently formed TOS groups. It started in October 2008 with great enthusiasm and in just over one year, has already taken up the challenge of supporting two projects: a children's home in southern Finland and a new Krishnamurti School in India. (more...) | NOV 2009 | |
| Heartbeats of Africa - One out of every 200 children born in developing countries suffers from a repairable congenital or rheumatic heart defect.... The TOS in Dar es Salaam ... has chosen to support the Heart Babies Project. (more...) | SEP 2009 | |
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Partnerships to promote service - From Tim Boyd, TOS USA .... A couple of years ago we were thinking about what we might do to have a greater impact on people’s lives. The biblical example of teaching people to fish rather than giving them a fish came to mind. We came up with the idea of Service Workshops.. (more...) |
JUL 2009 |
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Sponsoring the education of underprivileged girls in Pakistan - As the global war on terrorism continues and governments join hands spending billions of dollars to rid the world of this evil, another war is also taking place, albeit silently and very often unnoticed. It is a war against the ignorance, superstition and tradition that deny millions of women and girls in underdeveloped countries their inalienable rights... ( more... ) |
MAY 2009 | |
| The TOS in Sweden is just a little over ten years old and already it has an impressive record of service. Since its foundation in 1995, it has focused on helping orphans and street children in Latvia and working with another small Swedish organisation called Letthjälpen (Swedish for Helping Latvia) or Latvian Aid Association. ( more... ) | MAR 2009 | |
| The Annie Besant Animal Welfare Dispensary, Adyar - Any idea how many animals are treated per year at the animal shelter at our International HQ? Around ten thousand – almost all free of charge. What about the number of staff members? There are eight: three veterinarians, a manager and four attendants. An extra attendant is needed to drive the ambulance truck; in the meantime the senior doctor, Dr Jagannathan, has to drive it himself..... ( more...) | JAN 2009 | |
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The SEE (Seeing
Eyes for Everyone) Project was launched in September 2007
to mark the 150th birth anniversary of eminent Theosophist, Damodar K.
Mavalankar. The Theosophical Order of Service, Chennai Region, India,
has initiated this new project, extending the range of medical support
its members already provide to disadvantaged people in their area. So
far, screening for vision impairment has been carried out in five
schools and two slum areas... |
NOV 2008 | |
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Golden Link School, Philippines was founded in 2002 by the Theosophical Society and the Theosophical Order of Service in the Philippines to provide a transformational education for less privileged children. Many in the theosophical world regard it as a model of Theosophy in action amongst the young. While addressing core academic subjects, the school also focuses on deeper issues of character building, integrity, and self confidence in an effort to develop students who will be agents of social and personal transformation.... ( more...) |
AUG 2008 |
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