Tibetan Volunteers for Animals - 2 successful campaigns

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1. Students decide to ban meat in the school for good.

 

2. A Voice for the Voiceless, Dharamsala campaigns

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1.Teaching Kindness and ethics

March 25th, 2005

 

After campaigning at Dharamsala, TVA members visited TCV School Gopalpur and

organized a talk show with slide shows and videos on Animal abuses. Students

touched by the talks, decided to ban meat in the school. They will be putting

an application to the school authorities to ban meat in the school. Class X,

Class XI and Class XII students formed a vegetarian club in the school which

would organize activities dedicated to save animals, stop animal abuses and

promote vegetarianism. The club, at present consist of 32 members.

 

Totally 84 Students signed a lifetime commitment not to eat meat. This is

excluding many others who did not sign yet decided not to eat meat through out

their life.

 

2. A Voice for the Voiceless

 

 

TVA[Friday, March 24, 2006 15:47]

By Nyima Tsam

 

 

Rinchen Lhanzey talking to people

Dharamsala, March 23 - Eyes beaming at a huge projector screen,

tears rolling down the cheeks, lips moving with prayers and rosary in hands.

Around 1,500 people gathered at the TSUG LA KHANG to see the documentary Video

" Law of Nature " screened by Tibetan Volunteers for Animals (TVA). People

gathered at Dharamsala for the teachings of His Holiness, witnessed the plight

of animals, the pain animals go through everyday at the slaughter houses, the

price animals pay for just a plate of MOMO. Many among the audience were from

Tibet and some of them signed a lifetime commitment not to eat meat, at the end

of the show.

 

Clicking with His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teaching on

Bodhicharya-Avatara, TVA launched their massive awareness campaign 'SEMCHEN' on

19th of March(although they started their program a week before that). To

sustain quality life with a purpose, TVA with full zest arrived Dharamsala on

12th March. To nurture the human innate compassionate elements, TVA created an

atmosphere to educate people from all walks of life - creating a vibration in

every direction to SAVE ANIMALS and to carry love, mercy and compassion not on

our lips but in our hearts. From dawn to dusk the activities included are :

a.. Photo exhibition of animal's painful experiences drenched in

sweat and fear in the slaughter houses.

 

b.. Propagating the significance of Wildlife Conservation.

 

c.. Displacement of pamphlets, second Volume of Semchen Magazine,

C.D. titled " Lay-Gyu-Drey " i.e. " Law of Nature " which throws a spotlight on

animal abuses and convinces how karma ripens in this causal reality.

 

" Our campaign did well and I must thank all the people gathered at

Dharamsala for their love and support. As a result, totally 47 people signed a

lifetime commitment not to eat meat which I feel is a step towards world peace "

said Ven Sonam Dawa, Campaign Manager.

 

Tibetan Volunteer for Animals is heading towards Gopalpur T.C.V

School to support and participate in the School's Vegetarian Workshop which aims

at propagating healthy and alternative diet for the Vegetarians.

 

When asked why Vegetarian is important- Rapsel Tsariwa said " It's

wise to change to a vegetarian diet for good. It's healthy, it's economical,

it's environment friendly, it's compassionate, it's noble and it's peace. We

need everyone's support in our mission. Together, we can make a difference - to

ourselves, to the innocent animals and to this world. "

 

TVA's message is simple and straight -

 

NO MORE KILLINGS

 

CHANGE YOUR HEART

 

CHANGE YOUR DIET

 

LIVE CRUELTY-FREE

 

TVA is a non-profit Tibetan NGO based in Mysore, South India; and

has been fighting for the voiceless animals with sheer genuine voice of

compassion since the year 2000. They call themselves " A Voice for the

Voiceless " .

 

For more information, please visit www.semchen.org or

www.LoveAnimal.org

Write to semchen

Nyima Tsam is a teacher at the Upper T.C.V. school, Dharamsala.

Email the author at: nim_tsam

 

 

 

http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=12188 & t=0

 

Further info please contact:

 

Lobsang Monlam

Coordinator

Tibetan Volunteers for Animals

www.semchen.org

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