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REACHING OUT TO CHILDREN
June 13, 2006
In this issue: Worthy charitable organizations helping children (including Kids with Cameras) Upcoming California events next month: (including Moving into Silence Retreat) Reviews and Radio Interviews (including Strategies for Living) Dear friends, I hope this finds you well and enjoying this glorious summer. Doing our travels in northern India we often came across children begging in the street. While this is often a syndicated form of industry, (which means, giving them a handout going to the people who are using them for this purpose), there are wonderful organizations doing great work to help kids in India (and worldwide) that are truly worthy of support. Many of our participants asked us to research such charitable organizations in India, particularly those that help children, so there are two that we are sharing in this newsletter. We would like to invite everyone on our mailing list to know about and support these amazing institutions. 1. http://www.kids-with-cameras.org BORN INTO BROTHELS: Please watch Born into Brothels”. You can rent the film from Netflix.com or Blockbuster. This is a powerful documentary on the lives of children who grow up in the red light district of Calcutta in India and it is a tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art. This film is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer, gives each of the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes. www.kids-with-cameras.org helps these children and others around the world. 2. http://www.ashanet.org/ ASHA: In the summer of 1991, Asha (an organization) was born at the University of California in Berkeley when a few Indian students got together to think of ways in which they could play a role in the development of India, the country of their origin. These young people shared the belief that basic education is a critical requisite and an effective catalyst for social and economic change in India. The group was named Asha to represent the hope that had brought these individuals together and the hope that they aimed to bring into the lives of children in India. In that summer of 1991, Today, there are over 66 Asha chapters worldwide: 45 in the US, 14 in India, and 7 in Europe, Singapore and Australia. Volunteers in each of these chapters take personal interest in identifying education-related projects in India, and supporting them through funds and other means. Here are projects in the areas that we visited during our travels this year: DELHI: http://www.ashanet.org/projects/state-view.php?s=7 TAMILNADU: http://www.ashanet.org/projects/state-view.php?s=33 AGRA: http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/491/initial_proposal.htm VARANASI: http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=212 OR, BROWSE BY TYPE: http://www.ashanet.org/index.php?page=projects EVENTS COMING UP NEXT MONTH. Visit the events page on my website for more information http://www.russillpaul.com/calendar.html JULY 01 - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - EAST WEST BOOKSTORE I am doing an evening at The East West Bookstore in Mountain View, CA. Do tell friends or family in the area. The entrance fee is very inexpensive, just $7 and ALL PROCEEDS GO TO CHARITY. JUL 13 - 16: AUBURN, CA - MOVING INTO SILENCE RETREAT This retreat is for Christians who are interested in Eastern spirituality, particularly the practice of meditation and the yogic means of achieving deep states of union with the Divine through chant. INTEVIEWS; I have been doing a number of radio interviews, including several interviews for Internet Radio, in connection with the release of my paperback which has been getting some wonderful reviews. STRATEGIES FOR LIVING: My most recent interview was with David McMillian on Strategies for Living, an Internet Radio Station. You can hear a lot of contemporary applications of my work though this segment, which you can also share with friends. David is a wonderful interviewer who has featured Bernie Siegal, Thomas Moore, Matt Fox, Neil Douglas Walsch, Dan Millman and many others on his show. Several of these are archived on his website www.strategiesforliving.com. Just click on the microphone on his home page. My interview was on Friday, June 09 interview. You can access it directly with the following link: http://www.strategiesforliving.com/podcast_archive.php3 VISION MAGAZINE INTERVIEW: I have also received some excellent reviews on the book, including the following piece on vision Magazine. http://www.visionmagazine.com/5_06/books.htm That’s it for now. Wishing you every blessing.
I remain yours,
In One Spirit,
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