Sri Devanayagi's Village Project

Sri Devanayagi has come a long way since she attended her first Agni Homa in the Netherlands, followed with being a regular visitor to the sound healings in the Netherlands while Sri Param was there.

Inspired with Sri Param's work, she attend the first Tantra Teacher Training, August 21st 2003, and then again for the 2004 training, and now in love with the center, the children and the training she has decided to make India her home.

"News" As Devanayagi is from Holland (The Netherlands) we have posted all her latest work at http://ifc-net.org/village_project.html a website dedicated to IFC Netherlands.

2005 inspired by the children of the village, she decided to start a mini project, that is to work with the kids and help them change the way life has served out to them

Her desire is to offer health services to the children, teach those who want to learn English, and also feed the children who attend classes.

As an addition service, it is our  intention to provide milk and eggs for the children. Due to limited fund, we offer the kids who come here regularly a healthy nutritious meal. We have a group of about 15 kids who come here nearly everyday.

It sounds like a small group compared to 70 children in the village. The parents have to see the benefit before more children will come. We can induce more to attend, but that will cost lots of rupees, but just a few Euro, about 500 per month.

These are tribal people that we are dealing with as such it will take time and real endeavor to change their way of thinking and living. One day they will surely see the benefit, as some of them are already enjoying the benefit. The children who do come here everyday are really present and are enjoying what they do and find here.

We try to share with them a different view on healthy eating, cleanliness and hygiene. Generally, this kids do not eat vegetables, just rice with watery dhal curry, and pepper water.

Also, we let them participate in planting trees, keeping the property clean and in the cooking, and they have a great time doing so.

They get rich nutritious food, that the kids are not used to eating, as such in the beginning they use to reject it, and over time they have learned to enjoy it and return daily.

The little boys, say that they come to the center because it’s clean and quite and that they have the opportunity to play games such as cricket, badminton and soccer, which were partly donated by the participants of the last 2004 teacher’s training.

We try to have every  month a happening where we invite all the kids from the village for a meal, on these days a lot of children come and some of their parents as well.

So far, we raised about 1450 Euro, from the letter that Devanayagi sent out to her friends, that was enough to buy the chicken and cows. and partly pay for the building of the sheds. To help the project to get started Sri Param has paid for the rest. To make this project work better we need to purchase additional cows, then we can feed more children who come here.

Most cows bought locally are usually under nourished, and if we seek to go inter district or state, it will end up being very expensive. At the present moment we spend about 10 to 13 thousand rupees to buy what is considered to be very good cows, but purchasing out of our local districts could mean double the cost as such, it is cheaper to buy more cows.

We are harvesting corn to re-sown next year, and the remained will be used as feed, a basic food for the cows. We also feed them mixed cereal feed, more for the milking cow, and less for the pregnant mother cow.

The milk that we don’t use is sold, so that it will pay for the care taker of the cows.
Everything together we are starting but as in every project to make it work smooth and to have the full cooperation from the villagers it takes time.

We would like to attract an India dance -music and yoga teacher to the center for the kids, so that they can expand their perception of India culture, which is very rich. So fare we have managed to employ a music teacher.

Again these people are tribal people and their perception of the world is very limited. We hope that the next generation of the villagers will not be victims of circumstance. All that we are doing is for the local people, and one day they will have take the responsibility to make this project that we will leave to them, bigger and better. Hopefully they will learn how to make their own personal surrounding as beautiful and clean as we try to keep the land that we occupy.

For that they need to be exposed to as many things as possible to let them know the world and themselves otherwise their lives will be as harsh and limited as many generations before them.
 

Photo taken when Devanayagi first visited the village, not knowing that one day it will be her home. She visited the village with our Master in November 2003 when he came to purchase the land.  
 

A group photo with the local women and children after a prayer meeting at the center .
 

Devanayagi with the children and a few local ladies from the village.

 

Devanayagi sharing her wisdom about health and spiritual life in our Meditation hall.

Now five year later, we have only 6 boys, who have been with us from the start. Two of then are attending collage, and two more will be ready for collage education.

To meet the new need, we have decided to start The Mahavidya Girl's School. Why girls, yes, they have a greater need then the boys, in villages the boys are provided for better, and with more opportunities. 2010, will be the year we will take our first group of children.

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