Service Projects for all Humanity

This film will make a vegetarian out of anyone who watches it:

They were young children in 1994 when Rwanda experienced the genocide that left 800,000 of them orphaned.  In the wake of the violence, Rwanda’s social structure collapsed, severely affecting schools, health care, and the economy.  Meeting the basic needs of food, shelter, clothing and education overshadowed the daunting task of healing the orphaned children’s traumatic memories, injuries, illnesses, and fears.  UNICEF estimates that 96% of the children witnessed the massacres, and many children who survived were mutilated and raped, resulting in an unprecedented level of trauma among children.  Read more »

The Theosophical Order of Service is happy to announce that the TOS and the TS in America have kindly agreed to host an international TOS conference at the National Centre of the Theosophical Society in America in Wheaton, Illinois. Read more »

On behalf of the TOS and its board of directors, I extend heartfelt thanks to all of you who responded to our annual fund appeal with your donations and your good wishes. We raised $12,214 in general donations for the work of the TOS. In addition, we received $2,250 designated for specific TOS programs.

This year we again met our $20,000 goal in donations earmarked for the Golden Link College. The funds for the school will be matched by a very generous $20,000 matching grant provided by the Kern Foundation.

Great thanks to the estate of Leonard and Rhauna Cole for their generous bequest.  Bequests are treated by the TOS as an endowment to the organization thus ensuring an on-going source of income for the future work of the TOS. Read more »

Statistical results are in for Lynn McTaggart’s “9/11 Peace Experiment.”  For the tenth anniversary of 9/11, Lynn teamed up with Dr. Salah Al-Rashed, described as the Deepak Chopra of the Middle East.  Together, they solicited volunteers from 75 countries around the world in the 9/11 Peace Intention Experiment.

The project started with a mutual apology.  Participants joined together to offer an apology first from the Arab perspective, for allowing the 9/11 tragedy to happen, and next from the Western perspective, for the extreme nature of its military retaliation. Read more »

This is a Veteran benefit support project which is opening in the Southern Tier area, presented by the Susquehanna Study Group of the Theosophical Society in America.

The Trees for Veterans Program allows you to honor a particular Veteran with a tree planted in the Southern Tier area, while raising much-needed money for local Veteran groups and programs.  This is an official Theosophical Order of Service, USA, project. Donations are collected by TOS-USA and are fully tax-deductible. Read more »

Too bad we don’t know now what we’ll know then . . . oh, if only we could have the wisdom of old age right now.  And at no charge, please. 

The Legacy Project brings usable wisdom home to us now, just when we need it most.  The project was started in 2004 as the brainchild of Karl Pillemer, a professor at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College.  It works like this:  nearly 1,500 people, ages 70 and beyond, contributed their responses to the question “What are the most important lessons you have learned over the course of your life?”   The advice is given in both easy-to-read articles and short videos, and it’s always straight from the heart. Read more »

Hospice chaplain Kerry Egan has found, through her years of experience talking to dying people, that very few of them are asking the “big” questions.  They are not even, as the old joke suggested W.C. Fields was doing as he read the bible on his deathbed, “looking for loopholes.” Read more »

A book review might not be thought of as a service project, but I consider this book to be a contribution of the greatest magnitude for the health of millions of people. It was published in January, 2005 and is available through book stores. With few exceptions, this write-up is simply a copy of information from the front and rear flaps of the hard-back edition jacket.

I am making a serious effort to promote this book by placing it in public and school libraries in the United States, and giving copies to friends.  If anyone else in the USA would like to cooperate with me in this project, please contact me through the "contact" page. Read more »