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We are excited to share with you good news about our latest initiative- building HOPE (Heaven on Planet Earth) Towns for the poorest of the poor. We have formed a partnership with Gawad Kalinga (a Filipino term which means "to give care"), a highly successful charity organization that has created 2000 communities in the Philippines and other developing countries of Asia, built 100,000 homes with their partners; impacting the lives of a million people. The communities seek to incorporate lovely homes, community organization, values formation, early childhood and youth development, productivity and livelihood programs, health services and environmentally-friendly practices. Gawad Kalinga and its founder, Tony Meloto, have received the Asian version of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, and the organization is supported by over 400 corporate partners in addition to partnering with many governors and mayors throughout the Philippines.

Tripura Foundation has committed to building their first HOPE Town for the poor in Manila, Philippines in 2009. GK Hope Initiative, the Singapore division of Gawad Kalinga, will be bringing the talent and resources of Singapore NGO's and Universities, as well as other international organizations, to help create our HOPE Town in Manila as a truly global community that incorporates the best practices and methodologies of international NGO's. Mind-Sound Technology, Dr. Pillai's innovative self-development program that helps children and adults to live their highest potential, will be a core component of the educational services. Our plan is to then build our second HOPE Town in India in early 2010, and eventually expand this service to downtrodden areas throughout the world. We have a special occasion to participate in our fund-raising effort for our first HOPE Town in the Philippines. On July 6th, we celebrate Guru Purnima, the full moon day of the Guru, the occasion of honouring and expressing our gratitude to all spiritual teachers, masters, saints, and sages. Over 30 Global Guru Purnima events will be held world-wide for this special occasion, and all proceeds from the events will be donated to our first HOPE Town in the Philippines.

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Baba's YouTube Videos on these new initiatives for Guru Purnima
Go to: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=49FBFA0C6A8CAA36

CLICK HERE for Baba's Latest Videos on Hope Town and Guru Purnima Initiatives

Tripura Foundation is committing $50,000 for 25 houses and is encouraging all our supporters to match our donation to achieve a fundraising target of $50,000 for the remaining 25 houses.

Everyone can participate! You can gather together your family or a group or friends or your community to donate one house for $2000. Or you can donate just $10. The smallest to the largest donations help us reach our goal! You can also donate your expertise.

Donate Now and Participate in HOPE Town in the Philippines:

• Donate $2000 to build one beautiful home to change the destiny of a family forever
  
• Donate any amount under $2000

We will be seeking volunteers in many other capacities, and will update you regarding opportunities. We will be organizing a "Volunteer Build" where people can join us in Manila for a weekend or week to work hand in hand to build houses.

• person who would love to serve as a living library for this project- organizing all the communication and the offers of service that will be pouring in from volunteers all over the world.
  
• architects and engineers familiar with Indian housing designs
  
• graduate student for needs assessment for HOPE Town in India
  
• person to launch Twitter campaign to spread the good news!
  
• person to manage Youtube campaign to popularize our Tripura Foundation channel

Baba's Tripura Foundation Website to see full details and make donations
Go to: http://www.tripurafoundation.org/programs.html

CLICK HERE for the Tripura Foundation Website (Programs)

I want to share with everyone my experience of visiting several of the Gawad Kalinga (GK) villages in Manila, Philippines. Over the past ten years, I have lived and served the poor in India. In that time, I continually witnessed first-hand the most crushing, depressing and heart-wrenching poverty completely unacceptable for human existence. These conditions are echoed in the slums of the Philippines.

The GK Villages in the Philippines are built in the midst of slums. I was moved by the vision of beauty, positivity and love of these contrasting villages - they are an oasis in a desert of poverty. The lives of those given new homes were miraculously lifted from the worst living conditions imaginable. Parents who were previously unable to provide proper shelter for their children and faced danger everyday for their children and their own safety. I witnessed this sharp contrast of unfit housing and these new GK Village homes and felt warmly embraced by the proud, grateful village residents who welcomed us.

GK villagers are now living in new, beautiful, ingeniously engineered homes, built for $2000 each, that have innovative interior designs with flushing toilets, running water (not available in most of the ramshackle slum dwellings) that are brightly-painted with all the colors of the rainbow, complete with lovely landscaping and walkways! Even more than that, I was greatly impressed with the hopeful, lively and assertive spirit of the people, the graciousness of the ladies and the bright, happy and well-groomed children. Where there was previously a slum, there was now a tangible example of Heaven on Earth.

I fell in love with the people of Bagong Silang. This is one particular slum that we visited and where our first HOPE Town will be built. The needs of Bagong Silang are immense- comprised of 1 million relocated poor families. The nickname of this slum was "The Toilet" and years ago the slum specialized in every form of crime, drugs and prostitution. Through the community organization of GK, the slum now has transformed to be a safe place where the people benefit from ongoing community programs. And there are pockets of beauty in the GK Villages that have been built for a small proportion of the families.

The transformation created by GK in Philippines has been phenomenal in giving the poorest of the poor an entirely new destiny. India has been suffering for too long as well, and desperately needs the help proven by the great success of GK in the Philippines. It is so inspiring to partner with GK for this initiative. GK is an organization that has the highest goal of eradicating poverty in the Philippines, and along with Baba's Tripura Foundation, will help bring that opportunity to India.

On my part, for Guru Purnima I have committed to donating $2000 for a house in our HOPE Town in Manila, Philippines, and my husband is also committed to donating a house. I consider it an honor to do something so concrete to change the destiny of a family and all its generations to come. The blessings that I will receive from that family and the happiness I feel to make s difference in these lives by offering this donation in love and eternal gratitude to Baba (Dr. Pillai) are great gifts. I know that I am truly the one who has benefited by being able to do this.

I ask others to join hands with me and match my donation for a house for $2000. Together we can build HOPE Towns and demonstrate our commitment to Baba's Vision of Heaven on Planet Earth and love for the poor.

Donations for Hope Town can be made through the Tripura Foundation website: www.tripurafoundation.org - see "Contribute" and then "Donate" links

CLICK HERE for Mohini's interview about the Hope Town initiaive with Tony Meloto, GK Founder

Join one of Dattatreya Siva Baba's blessed global community gatherings for the Guru Purnima celebration and receive:

- Shaktipat, the transmission of spiritual energy from an enlightened spiritual master to a student, to accelerate our spiritual evolution.

- Special Grace Light empowerment, on this 1-year anniversary of the Grace Light, to enable you to access more joy, love , peace and better health in your life.

- Blessings from the poorest of the poor. Baba's charity foundation, the Tripura Foundation (www.tripurafoundation.org), will be partnering with Gawad Kalinga of the Philippines (www.gawadkalinga.org), to build HOPE Towns for poor and landless. All proceeds collected from the Guru Purnima event will be donated towards the Grace Light Cities Initiative and towards ushering in Heaven on Earth.

Click on one of the links below or go to the following websites to see current global event locations.

http://www.thegracelight.com/gatherings.html#LocalGatherings

http://www.sivababa.org/Events/calendar.asp

CLICK HERE for the Global Community Guru Purnima Events (Grace Light Website)


CLICK HERE for the Global Community Guru Purnima Events (SivaBaba Website)

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