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.
Second distribution of TOS emergency aid for starving families in East Africa
In October we reported on a new project initiated by the TOS in Kenya to provide emergency aid to families suffering current acute food shortage in a village to the east of Nairobi. The second distribution of food to the 55 families being helped by the TOS has recently been accomplished.
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....
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.
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.
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Collecting books for the Golden Link College library- a project of the Adelaide TOS and the TOS in New Zealand.
When you find a school whose philosophy and practices are based on theosophical principles what do you do? Well, the answer was clear to members of the TOS groups in New Zealand and Australia. They are committed to supporting the school – in this case the Golden Link College in the Philippines.
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...
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.
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...)
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...)
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
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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...)
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... )
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...
( more... )
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...)