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MEDICAL SERVICES : |
Free
eye Camps are being organised every month. Patients
are operated upon free of cost and treated free of cost.
Vivekananda Charitable Dispensary started on 13th March
1999 has three sections-Homoeopathic, Ayurvedic and
Allopathic. Free Medical Camps are also being organised
in the villages. All the patients are treated free of
cost and medicines are also given free. Financial help
is also provided to poor patients occasionally for their
further treatment outside depending on the interest
received from the endowment created for this purpose.
Patients suffering from diseases like Psoriasis are
also getting cured. The Dispensary is proving a boon
to the local people. Homoeopathic and Ayurvedic sections
particularly are very popular. |
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Viveknand
Dispensary |
Mobile
Medical Van |
Eye
Camp |
: LIBRARY AND FREE READING ROOM : |
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Public Library with Free Reading Room has been started
in 1998 in which there are more than 10,000 books on
Management, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Indian culture
etc. in Gujarati, Hindi & English. Free Reading
Room receives 50 periodicals. The Library remains open
from 4 pm to 7 pm except on Monday. The Children Section
contains large number of interesting books. No membership
fee is charged from the public except for refundable
deposit of Rs. 100 from elderly members and Rs. 25 from
the children if they want to borrow books. The Library
is becoming popular, more than one thousand members
have already enrolled themselves. |
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Library
and Reading Room |
: EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES : |
Programmes
for Managers, executives, teachers and students are
organised from time to time in the Ashrama premises
and educational institutions. Competitions on speech,
Essay etc are organised every year on the occasion of
Swami Vivekananda birthday and the prizes are given
to successful candidates. Felicitation ceremony for
giving prizes to the brilliant students is also held
every year.
In order to provide value-oriented education, special
programmes on 'Total Personality Development' are organised
in the educational institutions, comprising of talk
on 'Personality Development' followed by question-answer
session and meditation session. These programmes are
receiving great appreciation. Poor students are given
financial help depending on the interest received from
the endowment created for this purpose. |
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Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Addressing to youth of
porbandar ( 13-02-2002 ) |
Management Seminar at Porbandar ( 5-5-2000 ) |
: CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES : |
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Prayers and Evening Aratrikam are
organised daily. Shri Ramanama Sankirtan is held on
every ekadashi day. Spiritual discourses on every Sunday
as well as on special occasions are organised one hour
before the evening prayer. Birthdays of Shri Ramakrishna,
Holy Mother Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other
direct disciples are celebrated and festivals like Ramanavami,
Krishna-Janmashtami, Buddha Purnima, and Christmas Eve
are also celebrated. Spiritual Retreats are organised
occasionally.
In
order to equip the people with the art of living and
in order to enable them to get peace of mind in daily
life, VCDs, Audio Cassettes and Books of Shri Ramakrishna,
Holy Mother Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and Vedanta
are available in English, Hindi and Gujarati in the
Sales Counter which remains open from 9 am to 11.30
am and 4 pm to 7 pm including Sundays. A mobile van
(Shanti Rath) containing such literature goes from village
to village and from school to school to preach the universal
message of Shri Ramakrishna and the character-building
message of Swami Vivekananda among the students and
villagers. |
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Sales
Counter at Porbandar Ashram |
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RELIEF ACTIVITIES : |
CYCLONE
RELIEF : 1998 - 2000 Total Expenditure : Rs. 30 lacs
Primary relief work : Distribution
of food packets, tarpaulin sheets etc.
Rehabilitation work : 'Shri Ramakrishna Sanskardham'-
a colony at Vadala costing Rs. 26 lacs and consisting
of 20 houses, a temple, a community hall, a children
park etc. were constructed. |
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Opening Ceramany Secial guest Shri Sundarsingh Bhandari
( 22-2-2000 ) |
"Shree RamKrishna Sanskardham" |
DROUGHT
RELIEF : May-July 2000 Total Expenditure: Rs. 35 lacs
Primary relief work : Distribution
of 270 tonnes of dry fodder, 27 tonnes of food grain,
33.5 tonnes of groundnut seeds, 33.5 tonnes of gur,
6.25 tonnes of gram and 3050 kits containing steel water
pots, bedsheets, soaps etc. in Porbandar district among
about 7000 labourers and free kitchens at Vadala and
Chaslana.
Rehabilitation work : Check Dam at Vadala. |
EARTHQUAKE
RELIEF : 2001-2003 Total Expenditure: Rs. 5 crore
Primary relief work : Distribution
of food packets, food grain, tarpaulin sheets etc. among
3000 families of 50 villages and construction of 400
temporary sheds.
Rehabilitation work : Construction of a colony
at Bharwada (30 houses, Prayer Hall, Community Hall,
Dispensary, Library, Play-ground Equipment and other
infra-structural facilities) and a colony at Tumbda
(50 houses, Play-ground Equipment and other infra-structural
facilities); reconstruction of 36 Government Primary
School buildings and 1 Government High School building;
construction of 20 houses at Keshav under 'Build Your
Own House Scheme' ; construction of 110 houses at Bharwada
and Keshav under 'Self-Help Scheme' etc.
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Inauguration
of Vivekananda Sanskardham at Bharwada by Shri Narendra
Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat on 6th December 2001 |
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Inauguration
of Shri Ma Sarada Sanskardham at Tumbda by Shrimat Swami
Atmasthananadji Maharaj on 23rd March, 2003 |
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