Dear Friends, June 2017 Greetings from Family Services Trust! Hope this finds you in good health and well. We are having Summer Camp at our center, our children are learning various art and craft activities and also enjoying playing board games. We have planned educational excursion/picnic in this month. Thank you for all your continues support to our learning center so we can continues educating our students! Please see below photos of our Summer camp activities. Children are totally engaged and enjoyed art and craft activities. Thank you to those who made it possible for our children to have this opportunity.
“View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it”. ---Denis Whitley “it is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” --- Mahatma Gandhi “love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”---Dalai Lama XIV
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Activities in the month of May 2017
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We did planning meetings, preparations, Fund raising, and shopping for our Summer camp. On 29th of May We have had started our fun filled activity based Summer Fun with our students. On 9th of June will be giving prizes to our students for their achievement during Summer camp. May month we were continues with classes, on 25th May gave Summer holiday’s home work to students. We are happy to give our Summer break this year to our teachers and students.
Upcoming Activities in the month June 2017 • We will be continuing with our Summer Fun activities, and an excursion for our students on 10th June.
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We would appreciate your sponsorship for our students in center, also into formal English medium public schools. If you have any friends/ associates who would like to also help us with sponsorship for our students, please kindly let us know; because of our students will be going to a school in July 2017.
• We are building a computer lab for our students; we will appreciate your generous contribution towards it. Anything big/small will be a blessing to provide computer education for our children in the center. WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE?
Written by Rosanne Pereira
As a child, I loved to visit my grandmother Sabina’s small house in the mountains. Aunt Iota lived next door, so my sister and I would spend our days exploring with our cousins, going to the waterfall, swimming in the river that ran behind the property, or climbing the many mountains in the Mantigueira Ridge. It was heaven on earth for a city girl like me. Their family didn’t have as much materially as ours did. Once, my cousin Anette said, “I may not be rich in things, but I am rich in my heart, and Grandma told me that is the most important!” That was a new thought for me. Was there another kind of riches other than material ones? I also remember how impressed I was as a child when my mother took me to see The Ten Commandments1at a movie theater. Moses could have stayed in his comfort zone until the day he died, but he didn’t—he left everything to free his people from oppression. It took me until adulthood to understand how much it must have cost him to follow God. When I first read the Gospels, one of the stories that stood out to me was the one of the jeweler who discovered a pearl of great price and immediately sold all that he had to buy it. The lord explained that this pearl was the kingdom of God, and when I read that, I felt a burning in my heart. I too wanted that pearl! Lord also taught: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”3 Being from a metropolitan beach city with a high crime rate, I understood that concept very well. As I matured, I came to understand more clearly that true riches are not things of this earth; they are joy, peace, love, goodness, faith, and all the other real valuables that God wants to give each of us daily. Ours is the easy part, opening our souls to receive His gifts. If our treasures are in heaven, we will experience God’s joy now and in the life to come.
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”--- Henry James FAMILY SERVICES TRUST a registered nonprofit charitable Trust @ Office of Sub Registered of Trust New Delhi.| All donation to FAMILY SERVICES TRUST are Tax Exempted Under Sec. 80 G (5) (vi) of IT Act 1961 (WITHIN INDIA)