Theosophical Order of Service International e-Newsletter EN 50 – March 2019

Dear TS and TOS members and friends,

It’s March. Spring is here for some of us and just around the corner for others. Let us not forget our neighbours, South of the equator where things are the other way around, and colder weather is creeping up. In any case, with this first issue of our e-newsletter in the new year, it’s a good time to take a look at ourselves, assess how we’ve done with plans that were made and get ready for new beginnings.

Our TOS world is humming right along. Nancy, international secretary, and Vicki, our proof reader, attended the International Conference in August, David, our editor, had a new addition to his family when daughter, Helen, was born. Rozi, our webmaster, travelled to Adyar to attend a School of the Wisdom sessions. Nancy has been busy attending TOS events in and around Adyar, like the one supported by the TOS Adyar for mentally retarded persons, which is our featured project in this issue. She spreads the word about the TOS and our service work wherever she goes. In our last issue we told you about some of the TOS activities in Bhubaneswar, Odisha region, India, and in February Nancy visited there and saw them, first hand. The TOS there is involved in helping support an old age home, a girls’ home, and a facility for disadvantaged or mentally ill women, some of whom are survivors of abuse or rape. Besides this, they run a mobile vocational training centre that teaches sewing and fabric arts to women from disadvantaged areas, and they are trying to get a TOS school up and running. Our Around the World section in this e-newsletter tells of other TOS initiatives, some of them quite unique. TOS Finland just published a children’s book and the TOS in merry olde England is helping the sanitary habits of the world, one toilet at a time – see the article on our cover page. We are especially happy to announce that the permanent/National project of the TOS India is now Women’s Issues. Something that needs attention the world over.

What is your group doing? We’d like to know and to share it with your fellow TOS members. Please send information about your activities with good quality photos, to: nancy.tosinternational@gmail.com. 

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (1905-1997)

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