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Lampang
Rajabhat University in Lampang, Thailand has embraced Neohumanist Education’s YES program with over 400 students choosing to practice yoga and kaoshiki regularly. Three professors from the University attended a Bio-psychology workshop at CNS-Sweden in Ydrefors.
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| good for students’ all round well being and concentration. Prof. Nuntaka Taweepkul, Prof. Yupa, Dr. Tipawan and colleagues are teaching a course on Self Development and Quality of Life using Neohumanist techniques including Yoga. 1500 students in the university have taken the classes. Eighteen persons are trained to give the training to the 1500 students. Now, a yoga club is also being started under the guidance of Professor Surachai and his colleagues from the Faculty of Education and Psychology. |
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Dr. Shambhushivananda who brought yoga and Neohumanist Education modalities into Lampang and the surrounding areas eight years ago participated in a special performance given by students of the University during his visit last November, 2007.
In January, five weeks of yoga were provided as a supplemental activity to about 400 students who study science as a quality of life subject. A brief lecture about brainwaves and positive thinking was included. Dada Shiilabhadrananda also conducted a workshop for staff and students. |
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Chiang Mai
Recently, Mumfort College in Chiang Mai invited Prof. Kitiawan from Bangkok due to a growing interest in Neohumanist Philosophy among its staff and students in Northern Thailand. As a result of the yoga-kids program of Rakrook Neohumanist Nursery, the Assumption School has also included yoga training in its curriculum. The graduates of Neohumanist Yoga Centre are teaching yoga and neohumanist methods at different places now.
Sangklabhuri
Dada Ramakrsnananda’s project now has 50 children. 40 volunteers passed through his project last year. With a donation he received from Norway he built a weaving center. During his recent visit, Dada Shambhushivananda inspected Didi Ananda Anuraga’s school. She will build a three story building for more space for the school within the same campus. 250 children are currently in the school. 80 of them are from the children’s home run by Didi Ananda Devamala.
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Bangkok
On his recent visit to Bangkok, Dada Shambhushivananda initiated CNS Thailand with it’s center in Bangkok. Jayadhiira and Nandita are coordinating the proposed centre in Bangkok under the guidance of Dada Krpamaya.
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Cirebon,
West Java
By Didi Vanii
I have been here since May 2002. We have a Play Group and Kindergarten. |
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The school is using a 315m2 building on a 603m2 piece of land which is located in a quiet section of the city. Normally we have 20-25 students and last year we had 25 students. This year we have 15 students. We have 4 teachers including a principal. The children have morning circle, asanas or PT exercises alternately, and do a simple meditation with kiirtan totalling 30 minutes. All the activities are led by the teachers. Last November the Education Department came to school for Accreditation, and we got an A (89, 43) mark.
To help with the finances I started teaching a Free English Course for everybody; 1 class for kindergarten, 1 class for elementary, Junior and senior high school and also for adults (one class for each grade). In this way, I also utilize and refresh my English since Indonesian is my second language. One class is for an hour, some twice a week, some once a week. Beside that, I have private class. In this way I am also earning some money. The other purpose of the free class was to promote our school since many people didn’t know about ourAMSAI school. In the beginning many people didn’t believe |
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that there was a free class. I started in January 2008 with 1-3 students. Now I have 14 students for the private class, and about 50 students for the free class.
The school program runs in the morning, so I utilize the place for the private and free class in the afternoon. I am planning to get more English teachers and a Mandarin teacher, and then expand it to an English and Mandarin course. In this way we can help people to earn their living and teach them to do some service by teaching a free class to those who can’t afford to pay. |
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Wanted! A sister volunteer in Mombasa, Kenya: to work in a school of 470 children, and a girl's children's home. The atmosphere is very cordial, the children friendly, and great potentials to develop Neohumanist Education practically. Contact Didi Ananda Giitika <agiitika yahoo.com> |
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INDIA
Since New’s Year Day 2008, a good number of Ananda Marga schools organised sports which inspired the local margiis and sympathisers. More than 53 schools in total organised Sports Day. All the guardians with great inspiration extended their cooperation for making these competitions successful. In some places, guardians actively participated in making the sports event successful. A few of these programs are included in the following list.
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Kharibari
On 19th January Ananda Marga School, Kharibari at foothills of Darjeeling (north Bengal) organised Annual sports. Thousands of people including hundreds of guardians enjoyed these sports.
Kulkuri
Ananda Marga School in Kulkuri Master Unit organised a beautiful sports competition on 16th January, in which hundreds of guardians and villagers took active interest. Shri Harimohan Karmakar, Head master of the local high school presided over the the prize distribution program.
Karandighi
Ananda Marga School, Karandighi in North Dinajpur, organised a sports competition on 23rd January. The competition began at 9.30 am with flag hoisting. Mr. Kalpa Sinha, a well known and reputed teacher, distributed the prizes to the winners. The entire program was organised by Avadhutika Ananda Karmavrata Acarya, the principal of the school.
Maynaguri
23rd January is the birthday of Netaji Subhash Bose and was celebrated at Maynaguri (Jalpaiguri district) by organising a sports competition by Ananda Marga School. It was inaugurated by Shri Nripen Bera, a reputed teacher.
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| School in South Dinajpur district, Chandrakona School of Midnapur district, Amta and Chauldharia in Howrah district, Krsnanagar and Habibpur school in Nadia district. They organised the sports day in the month of February. The competitions included 100m race, 50 metre race, biscuit race, long jump. musical chair etc.
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Ananda Nagar, Pundag District
GRACE - Gurukula Rural Advanced Computer Education
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This institution is located in Pundag Village of Ananda Nagar. It was started in 2005 by Dada Rudradevananda on 5 acres of land. It is a self-sufficient unit which started out with manufacturing torch lights in its own factory and selling throughout India. The income of this business generated the funds needed for the entire infrastructure of the project, which now has the following components:
- High power electricity for industrial purposes.
- Bag factory employing 10 people and producing bags.
- A dairy farm of many cows and calves.
- An iron works making different tools and fences.
- Soya milk distribution made of purchased soya and ground for making milk.
- A seed grinder that can make flour. The villagers bring their cereals for grinding here.
- A pond for water catchments.
- A deep well for water supply and irrigation.
- Gardens of various vegetables and orchards.
There is also a computer school with 65 students and it is expanding. Among the students there are also a few women from the surrounding area. The course is for 6 months.
A satellite project of GRACE is in Bokaro Kashijharia which is a Gurukula Public School that started April 2007 and now has 155 children in nursery and kindergarten and 7 staff. The school is also expanding to provide for primary education.
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Pune, India
DSL Pune, Didi Ananda Jyotirekha recently arranged a cultural programme and took out a procession. This programme was based on “Neohumanist Education”. She organized all this with the help of her AM school children. News media printed this news in all leading newspapers of Pune.
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Ananda Marga School Anuwara, Chattagram presented a beautiful cultural program based on Prabhat Samgiita on January 24th .2008, which was attended by more than 2000 guardians and public.
Chandpur in Thakurgaon district
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Kathmandu, at Hetauda
By Ac.Omkareshvarananda Avt.
We have an AMSAI school with 223 students and a Children’s Home with 11 boys. Pictured here is:
1. The interschool Science Quiz organised by the National Private and Boarding Schools Association, Nepal, hosted by our school.
2.Our participation in a rally on International AIDS Day
3. Ananda Marga Children's Home boys performing in a cultural programme by RAWA Nepal.
We have been invited by all the schools to conduct YES programmes, after our NHE schools Yoga, Asana, Kaoshiki and Tandava demonstration in the District Interschool Tournaments.
With my medical background, I was posted in A.M. Gurukula University at Anandanagar by Baba. I was looking after Composite Medical College and Hospital from 1990 to 2003. Here in Nepal also I am continuing to treat the needy persons through Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Yoga and Herbal medicines. I am planning to expand these activities through medical camps. Last October we gave Asthma and Allergy treatments with herbs at midnight in moonlight. The follow up was Yoga and Music therapy with Prabhat Samgiita. 150 persons |
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Itahari Sunsari
By Tara
This is the 7 room school building we have newly constructed. Now we are going to open a new session from April from class nursery to grade 3. This is the building of AMURT Itahari, Sunsari, Nepal and AMURT is helping the school. The school has a very good future here. |
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Excerpted from news reports by Didi Ananda Devapriya |
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Bucharest -
Earth Day, which is internationally recognized on April 22nd, was celebrated in Bucharest at the two Sunrise Playschools for the first time. We had a variety of discussion themes - what makes the earth happy, what makes it sad, how we can be good friends to the earth. We also discussed differences between chemical |
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and natural materials. But one of the most interesting projects was paper making to practically demonstrate recycling! At the Mihai Bravu the children recycled paper step by step into a very beautiful artistic creation. |
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At the Bucuresti Noi school, the children went on an adventure in the forest to find a magical fairy...only the children could see the fairy and they had to become very quiet and follow a magical trail through the forest blindfolded listening for fairy music in order to find her. At first the fairy was sad, because big people are forgetting about nature, but when she met our children who were so enthusiastically saying that they love the Earth - even singing a song specially made for the occasion, her spirits lifted and she guided them through a nature walk...When we met with other big children in the park, the fairy and our children shared a message about the earth with them. They also were excited to do something positive for the earth by picking up litter and throwing it in the right place. It was a memorable event!
Special Needs work Mihai Bravu
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| been pioneering the integration of special needs children into a normal setting since the inception of the project, an innovation that we are experimenting with this year is that we have hired a "psicopedagog" in order to provide more individualized attention, planning and parent involvement for our special needs children. Her job includes making a detailed evaluation of each case and a individualized plan with specific learning objectives which are presented to the parents and shared with other staff. |
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Her name is Gabriela, and she herself is a very positive example for the children because she also has cerebral palsy in her legs, but through physical therapy, and a very determined spirit, she has been able to overcome it to a great degree
Panatau
Fountain of Hope is a new after school center in Panatau, a small village in rural Romania. Since its opening in October, the after-school center has been serving warm, nutritious vegetarian meals and giving homework support to 30 of the most disadvantaged children in Panatau daily. The opening ceremony of Izvorul Sperantei, took place on Nov. 2nd. The project has received several generous contributions, but is still in urgent need of more sponsorships in order to cover the costs of providing the hot meals. It costs 16 euros per month to cover the food costs of one child - or about 190 euros in a year. |
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NORWAY
Ac Shambhushivananda Avt participated in the deliberations in the conference on "Peace and Reconciliation in South Asia" held in Oslo on April 10-11th and organised by The International Association of Human Values. Among the speakers were some |
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members of the European Parliament, representatives of conflicting parties in Sri Lanka, Mynamar, victims of Maoist movement in India, representatives from some state governments of India, peace scholars, women peace activists and members of the media community who shared views on "How does media fuel or solve world conflicts?" |
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During the Spring Retreat held at Selva di Cadore in Italy from 21st to 24th March a Neohumanist Education workshop was held with 18 participants from Norway, Italy and Spain. The workshop covered the background of NHE;
a presentation of what makes a NH school: policies/practices, building and environment, teachers, students, curriculum; and then a discussion of NHE principles with practical examples and materials. Due to the variety of backgrounds of the teachers we discussed age groups from nursery to primary and high school. |
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Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon
The Escuela Elena Emmanuel Carballo school opened in 1983 in Santa Catarina, a poor county near Monterrey City in Mexico. It now has 38 students in kindergarten through grade 3. There are four teachers now and a daily yoga program with a'sanas, meditation, and stories. The Director is Arcana and the Yoga and meditation instructor is Mahesh. |
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