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The Work of the TOS in INDIA
Can you imagine a Theosophical Society
Section with over a hundred local TOS groups? Our Indian members can
- because they have them! Their total TOS individual membership is
over 5000. Organised service work, principally in the fields of
health, education, animal welfare and the environment, is extensive
compared with that undertaken by members in Western
countries.
Some examples of initiatives in the fields of health
and education in 2003:
- A sum of Rs. 300,000 was spent on more than 40,000
beneficiaries by way of free medicine, cataract operations and
medical checkups.
- Several free homeopathic dispensaries were run for the poor.
Ayurvedic medicines and pranic healing procedures are also made
available in one or two places.
- Leaflets were distributed in regional languages about cancer
and HIV/AIDS prevention. Thousands of leaflets against tobacco
were distributed in the Bihar Region.
- The Mumbai region sponsored the education of more than 400
students, ten of whom were supported by the Save The Children Fund
(London).
- An elocution contest was organised on the life of Dr Annie
Besant by the Hassan group of Karnatak Region.
- Two primary schools were adopted by the Besant group in Delhi and
deserving poor students given scholarships covering uniforms,
books and stationery.
- A member donated Rs.100,000 for the construction of an
additional classroom in a school run by the TOS in Kolkata for
slum children.
- Of the 50 boys and girls were given intensive tutoring in Delhi
over the last year on an experimental basis to enable them to
enter regular classes at their own age level, 12 secured admission
in primary schools.
Please contact us if you want more details of how to support
these projects in India.
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