Theosophical Order of Service (TOS)
(Founded in February 1908)
(A Union of Those who Love in the Service of All that Suffers.
Promoting the Application of Theosophical Principles for a 100 Years.)
Some of the charities that have
received donations from the TOS (UK).

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  1. The Golden Link School, Philippines ( http://www.www.theosophy.ph/schools.htm) The School is one of four run by the TS in the Philippines, for poor, underpriviliged children offering educataion from nursery to elementary level.
  2. Aum Pranava Ashram ( http://www.freewebs.com/aumpranava/index.htm) The ASHRAM was founded to help orphaned and/or underprivileged children from economically very poor background by providing them with a HOME (in the real sense) which gives them food, shelter,  education and medical treatment with the love and care necessary for good child development.
  3. Pandaw Hospital Barge ( www.pandaw.com) A motorised 128 ft barge, fitted out with clinic, accommodation for doctors, and even parking for two trucks and with ample holds below decks for storing supplies, providing medical relief to coastal regions of Myanamar (Burma) devasted by the cyclones.
  4. The Smile Train ( www.smiletrain.org.uk) provides free cleft surgery in thrid world countries. It costs as little as £150 and taking as little as 45 minutes to give a desperate child not just a new smile but a new life.
  5. Cardio Start ( www.cardiostart.com) is an international, charitable, non-profit, humanitarian, medical organisation, dedicated to providing free heart surgery, cardiology, obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatric and other medical support to children and adults living in underserved areas of the world, with volunteer medical and non-medical staff.
  6. EthiopiAid ( www.ethiopaid.org.uk) is a fundraising organisation based in the UK which supports locally run community projects in Ethiopia.
  7. Edward's Trust ( www.edwardstrust.org.uk) is designed to give practical support to parents and carers caring for families and children during child illness and bereavement, through counselling and training.
  8. Prison Phoenix Trust ( www.prisonphoenixtrust.org.uk) encourages prisoners in the development of their spiritual welfare, through the practices of meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath.
  9. Tree Aid ( www.treeaid.org.uk) is the UK's only forestry focussed development charity providing funding and on the ground training and support to local organisations in the Sahel of Africa.
  10. Children's Home in India's Kerala State (CHIKS). An orphanage for street children in the Kerala State of India.
  11. Hoxton Health Group ( www.hoxtonhealthgroup.org.uk) provides low cost complementary health care, exercise classes and healthy living groups for Hackney and City residents over the age of 60.
  12. Agape Project ( www.irinnews.org/webspecials/hiv_aids/sa_communities.asp) runs a school for 28 children in Western Cape, SA. The Children have HIV, cerebral palsy, etc. and are living away from their families. The families send food, but often there is not enough. Money is needed to fund a sensory room, and to give children a Complan-type food to build them up.
  13. Friends of Chernobyl’s Children (www.focc.uk) targets children from needy families in Chernobyl and since 1995, has grown, with groups around the country. In 2000, over 450 children came to the UK for a one month recuperative visit, providing family placements and meeting full costs including optical, dental and health checks. This helps boost their immune systems.
  14. S.A.R.A.I.D. ( www.saraid.co.uk) provides Search & Rescue Assistance in Disasters, e.g. the Tsunami, Kashmir earthquake, collapse of the ice-rink in Bavaria, etc. and provides water Purification Plants.
  15. Homeless Children in Brasilia is a children’s transit home for street children, in preparation for the return to their families. The local TOS group helps.
  16. Medicens Sans Frontiers ( www.msf.org). provides medical aid to victims of International Disasters.
  17. El Shaddai Street Child Rescue, Goa, India. A children’s home and school for street chidlren.
  18. Practical Action: Intermediate Technology Development Group ( www.practicalaction.org.uk) A Charity which works with poor communities to develop appropriate, sustainable, low-cost technologies.
  19. ARRC (www.childaidrr.org.uk) A charity that rescues street children in Russia, with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.
  20. Compassion in World Farming (www.ciwf.org.uk) is recognised as the leading international farm animal welfare organisation campaigning to improve the short, miserable lives of farmed animals all around the world.
  21. The Dr Hadwen Trust (www.drhadwentrust.org.uk) believes animal experiments are unethical and scientifically inadequate. They want medical progress without animal suffering, so are developing better, more advanced and humane methods of conducting medical research.
  22. Uncaged (www.uncaged.co.uk) A peaceful international animal protection organisation based in Sheffield, England. Main campaigns are against animal experiments (vivisection); against xenotransplantation (animal to human transplants); for animal rights and for democratic action on animal issues through the political system.
  23. Rebuilding work in Chennai, India after the 2004 tsunami.
  24. Animal Welfare, in Adyar, Chennai, India.
  25. Women's Aid, in Adyar, Chennai, India.
  26. Olcott Memorial High School, in Adyar,Chennai, India.
    http://www.olcott-school-chennai.org The School provides free education for over 700 children from underprivileged families, and also free textbooks, uniforms, and a nutritious breakfast, and enriches a mid-day meal provided by the government.
  27. Dr Sunita Maithreya's Free Medical Dispensary in Adyar, Chennai, India.