Small town big hearts

For the last few days in Priceville, we have been very busy designing and distributing flyers for the upcoming Tsunami Fundraising Dinner. At the same time, we created a nice poster for the local elementary school with many photos of the volunteers working for Amurt in this area. Children were very inspired that their photos appear beside photos of the volunteers from India and Indonesia. Also the school displayed an Amurt Donation Box in the main hall ( underneath of the poster ). Children will be able to continue their collections efforts. One of our local Health Food Stores in Dhuram collected almost $150 in our Amurt Donation Box.The General Store in Priceville donated $ 90. Considering that our Municipality is very small and poor, the number of people participating in this effort is very inspiring. Yesterday we started preparation for the Power Point Presentation, about Amurt activities in the World ( in particular in South East Asia ). This presentation will be a part of our event during Tsunami Fundraising Dinner at Hare Krishna Temple. Also we had an initial meeting with a local activist where we introduce a proposal to open a permanent Local Amurt Office as a rapid response unit in the case of another, natural or human made tragedy. We are planning to create an emergency call list of the potential Amurt volunteers. Each participant will be provided with the Grey County Amurt sticker and telephone number which will be used for networking and organizing a fast reaction in the case of local or global events. During a quiet moments, we will be providing support services to those in needs ( especially the elderly and children ). Also from February 1st, we will have once a week, regular, free of charge yoga classes and seminars. Also once a month we will have a free vegetarian cooking class.

Please join Amurt activities in your area or create your own Amurt chpaters.


Take care,

Nilmini Fernando and Trilokesh ( Tadeusz Majewski )
Local Amurt Coordinators
tel. +1 519-924-3968