Transfers, Tribune, Donors, & Volunteers

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Funds Transferred, Thanks to donors

 

We received confirmation from Sri Lanka of receipt of the $ 3,000 wired last

Monday, and another $ 1,500 will go out this coming Monday, making the total

$ 5,000 as a result of the appeal. The names of our kind donors from far and

wide are pasted below. And below their names is information about

volunteering to go to Sri Lanka from Prayavrata das, head of the Worldwide

Food for Life Program. Lastly, we pasted the address of Glenn Hagele¹s

timely web site at the bottom.

 

On behalf of the Tsunami Victims, thanks to:

 

Julie Frank, Daniel Swanson (Okla.), Glenn Hagele, Amal Bhakta, Mary Jew,

Roshan & Kulwant Khandpur, Irwin Shapiro, Rajinder Battish (Cal.), Bonnie

Hamdi (Wash.), Karen Lowens (Conn.), Nancy Hope (NY), Stephen Knapp(

Mich.), Anand & Pratima Shah (Oh), Daruka Das, Daru Brahma(Fla.), Barbara

Sheets (Neb), Juan Rodriguez (Puerto Rico), Dr. Douglas Ogden, Vandana

Rangta, Yogi & Pragna Shah, Jessica Hafen, Sudhir & Florence Behl, Krishna &

Aarti Sinha, Krista Zara, Julie Jones, Judy Hicks, Kanhai & Sarita Sah, Jane

Johnson, Kim Molner, Srikantam Natarajan, Vijai & Geeta Agarawal, Wille

Ostler, Kevin Crowell, Travis & Jenny Staley, Ann Poore, Rajat Kala, Prajwol

Bhandari(Utah)

 

Salt Lake Tribune Article

 

Utahns Open Up Their Hearts & Wallets to Tsnami Victims

Kristen Moulton

Salt Lake Tribune

1/06/05

 

Excerpt..

.........A much smaller Utah congregation, the Hare Krishnas, is raising

money to send to Sri Lanka, where the monks at a Hindu temple are providing

10,000 plates of food a day to tsunami refugees via their Food for Life

program.

   So far, $3,500 has been wire transferred to the monks of the Sri Sri

Radha Krishna Temple, says spokesman Caru Das at the Utah Krishna Temple in

Spanish Fork. Another $500 is ready to be wired Friday or Monday, along with

any additional donations.

   The monks typically take two vans out each day to provide vegetarian

meals to a couple hundred people. Now they are dipping into their food

reserves and renting vehicles to cover a bigger area so they can reach

people in the ravaged beach areas, Das says.

   The monks also have an orphanage that usually houses 75 children and now

needs to expand to handle tsunami orphans.

   "It's a question of ratcheting up the existing programs by a factor of

100," Das says.

 

Volunteers Needed in the Affected Areas

 

Priyavrata das, director of Food for Life Global, requires devotees for

relief work in areas affected by the recent Tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka.

On January 14, Indradyumna Swami will arrive in the capitol, Colombo, to

assist local devotees in setting up an infrastructure to distribute prasadam

at refugee camps throughout the disaster areas. Presently, Mahakarta das,

temple president for Colombo and local devotees are distributing 10,000

plates of prasadam daily in just one area affected by the disaster. But the

scope for distribution is unlimited as hundreds of thousands of people

remain without home or shelter along the coastal areas hit by the Tsunami.

 

Food for Life has made an appeal for volunteers on it's web site:

WWW.FFL.ORG

and over 60 non-devotees have replied. Many are professionals in various

fields of medicine, education and social services. Priyavrata and

Indradyumna Swami are presently choosing 48 of them to assist in prasadam

distribution in different refugee camps, beginning January 16.

 

FFL Global is appealing for expert devotee cooks and kitchen helpers to

volunteer for service in this relief effort. Those with first hand emergency

relief experience are especially desired.

 

Devotees should be aware that they will be working in a disaster area and

that conditions may be very austere. All accommodation, food and water will

be provided and FFL Global will cover all expenses related to volunteering,

except travel. Devotees will have to pay their own way to Sri Lanka.

American citizens do not require visas, if they intend to stay less than one

month.

 

Interested volunteers are also advised to take the necessary inoculations

such as Typhoid and Cholera.

 

For more information, and to volunteer for this "experience of a lifetime"

service, please visit WWW.FFL.ORG - or call Priyavrata das on (1) 301 987

5883 or 1 571 277 2329

 

Website Repeated

Hello Everyone,

 

I'm sure many of you are interested in what is happening in south Asia and

the survivors of the tsunami. At http://www.usaeyes.org/tsunami.htm I have

created a web page with information about the Food For Life program to aid

tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka. It includes photos of their efforts, a

description of our support, and contact information for additional

donations. Please feel free to forward this information to anyone who you

believe may find it of interest.

 

Glenn & Victoria Hagele