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Sri Sarada Bala Samskara Kendra Project

-Inaugural Training program

Children born of prayer will have tremendous will power and purity and they willachieve everything on their own.Even if put in most difficult circumstances they will

come up in life.

Based on this premise, Sri Sarada Bala Samskara Kendra project was launched

by Vande Mataram Foundation with the blessings and funding from

Ramakrishna math, Hyderabad. The objective of this project is to imbue

spiritual values, give knowledge on balanced diet and pre-natal care to

pregnant women, in rural areas. College going girl volunteers are appointed to

impart this knowledge to families and pregnant women in their villages on

monthly basis. The volunteers are in turn are trained by VMF toward thefulfillment of this objective. The girl volunteers are paid monthly for providing

the above service and also for the daily tuition they provide to primary school

students.

Sri Sarada Bala Samskara Kendra project, recently conducted the inaugural

training program to college going girl volunteers in Thorur, Warangal district.

The training was held for 3 days from 14th to 16th December 2010 at the VMF

training facility. The first batch of 160 selected volunteers out of a total of 350

girl volunteers attended this program. They were selected based on their

economic background, educational qualifications and aptitude for college

education and higher goals in life.

By the afternoon of the 14th December, the girl volunteers most of whom are

intermediate students (11th and 12th graders) along with VMF mandal-in-

charges arrived at the training facility. To and fro bus expenses are paid by

VMF. The volunteers settled down by late afternoon. Boarding and meals were

provided by VMF at the training facility itself during all 3 days. VMF spent

approximately Rs.250/- per person costing a total of Rs.40, 000 for the 3-day

program for the first batch training. The remaining volunteers will undergotraining toward the end of December 2010.

On the first day orientation was given by Mr. Ravindra, founder of VMF. On the

second and third days experts from different fields were invited to talk on the

importance of Balanced diet, Character building, and Nation building. On the

third day, Swami Sitikanthananda, Maharaj Niyamachaitanya, Navin Rao from

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RK math, Hyderabad and Mr Mallikarjun Yoga Guru Retd. Chief Engineer,

National Highways, Warangal attended the program. Swami Sitikanthananda

gave an inspiring talk on how great leaders are born to great mothers. He

pronounced the wonders that mental and spiritual cultivation by girls and

pregnant women can do for the welfare of the country with the illustrations ofseveral pious mothers who gave birth to great leaders. A well educated,

morally and spiritual minded woman can become an excellent role model for

not just her family but for the entire village. Swamiji gave examples of

Mahatama Gandhi, Shivaji, Lord Krishna, Jesus Christ, Bharata (after whom

India was named as Bharat), Prahlada, Abhimanyu etc. Maharaj

Niyamachaitanya spoke briefly about self confidence and shared his positive

impressions on the program. Mr Mallikarjun passed on valuable information

to the volunteers about the role of good values, will power and the dos and

donts in life. Mr. Navin interacted with girl volunteers who were already

providing tuition service including one girl volunteer who was able to provide

tuition service to 70 students! Due to lack of time only 15 volunteers could

share their experience of the training and the service they are providing to

school children. They expressed their happiness for having attended the

program. They felt that participating in the program not only enriched their

knowledge but also enhanced their confidence. They all felt that they can

greatly contribute to the welfare of the village. The meeting concluded around

4:30pm with prayer and distribution of book set emphasizing the greatness of

Indian culture and lives of national leaders. The books included Sumati

Satakam, Sri Krishna Satakam, Pushpanjali from RK math, VMF prayer bookand more books on character building. The books cost more than Rs. 300/-

per person and were sponsored by various donors.

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