Values for the Yatra August 2012

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Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC )E-Letter August 2012

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The Value of Freedom

Leonard E. Read wrote in Elements of Libertarian Leadership, free tigers that have been

captured and caged for years forget the freedom they once had and, forgetting, they have

nothing against which to contrast their existing condition, their confinement becomes their normalcy.

As India celebrates her sixty fifth Independence Day, we recall the words of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom". Life andFreedom are two birthrights that we have often sacrificed. We have been caged in the shackles of a Culture

of Death and bound by Imprisonments of thought, prejudice, and selfish concerns. Such confinements have

become a normalcy! We have forgotten, sadly, the birthright we once so proudly possessed and are free no

more. This Independence Day is a wake up call to reclaim our lost birthright.

Freedom comes with a Price and a Responsibility. And, only those who are ready to pay the true price

will be able to live in the light and peace of Freedom. Today, Corruption has become normal. The Indian Rail-

ways have become travelling coffins, our roads have become avenues for death. Medical care, sadly, just

fast tracks ones movement to the grave. Education, instead of bringing out the best in every student, has

become a vessel of competition and tution mania. Politics has seen the death of culture and true values and

given birth to corruption and despondency. When we value true freedom, we value life and respect for all.

In the name of Freedom, Responsible living is abandoned. Values are often replaced by insignificant

personal agendas that are reflected in the daily choices we make. Life that is not guided by a Value Com-

pass becomes misdirected and fatal. We are all responsible for Indias Freedom. Today, we are all called to

be Freedom Fighters for a Better and Valuable India. Tagore, more than just poetically, prophetically invites:

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Called to be Freedom Fighters for a Better India

For to be Free is not merely to Cast off Ones Chains,

but to Live in a way that Respects and Enhances

the Freedom of Others Nelson Mandela Fr. Glenford Lowe sdb

Happy Independence Day


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What would you choose? It is your Values that define your Choices & Lifestyle..

Freedom is not doing whatever you want, but to Responsibly Choose what is True.



What would you choose?If you had the Freedom...

For Peace and HarmonyFor Violence and Disharmony

For Justice and EqualityFor Greed and Inequality

Good over EvilEvil over Good

Care for Mother EarthEnvironmental Destruction

Religious Values

Social Values

Ethical Values

Environmental Values

Personal Values Integrity and RespectGreed & Corruption


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Reflective Value Moments for Students!ncredible !ndia:

Do You Value your

Seven Fundamental Rights in !ndia?

Never

Agree

Some-

times

Normally Always

agree

1 ) , including equality before law, prohibition of discrimina-

tion on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth, and equality of

opportunity in matters of employment, abolition of untouchability and abolition

of titles.

2 ) which includes speech and expression, assembly,

association or union or cooperatives, movement, residence, and right to

practice any profession or occupation ( some of these rights are subject to

security of the State, friendly relations with foreign countries, public order,

decency or morality ) , right to life and liberty, , protection in

respect to conviction in offences and protection against arrest and detention in

certain cases.

3 ) , prohibiting all forms of forced labour, child

labour and traffic in human beings;

4 ) , including freedom of conscience and free

profession, practice, and propagation of religion, freedom to manage religious

affairs, freedom from certain taxes and freedom from religious instructions in

certain educational institutes.

5 ) preserving Right of any section of citizens

to conserve their culture, language or script, and right of minorities to estab-

lish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

6 ) for enforcement of Fundamental Rights.

7 ) which ensures that children up to the age of 14 get

education. It can also be free of cost.

Into that Heaven of Freedom , My Father, Let my Country Awake


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Value Coordinators Forum 2012

Kia Scherr

In an act that surprised many around the world, Kia Scherr publicly forgave the men who killed

her husband and daughter in the coordinated terrorist attacks on Mumbai, India,November 26, 2008.

In a press statement, Mrs. Scherr shared these words,

"Life as I knew it changed on November 26, 2008 when my husband, Alan and 13-year old daughter, Naomi,

were shot and killed by terrorists in the Tiffin Restaurant at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, India

along with 158 other people.

"We can create a positive outcome to this heart wrenching tragedy by taking a stand to honor the life we all

share. The time has come to join together as one. We are one human family. Let us honor the sacredness of

life in ourselves and in each other. Together we can shift the scales of balance to a life affirmative focus.

It begins with each one of us, with the choices we make moment to moment.

Let us choose love, understanding, acceptance, compassion and forgiveness as a baseline for all of our

interactions. In so doing, we elevate not only ourselves, but everyone we meet."

The Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC)

Invites ALL SCHOOL/Jr. COLLEGE VALUE EDUCATION COORDINATORS

affiliated to the ABEMumbai

To a VALUE COORDINATORS FORUM 2012

On October 4, 2012At Don Bosco Primary School Hall, Matunga

From 8.304.00 pm

Guest Speakers:

Ms. Kia Scherr: World One Life Alliance ,President

Ms. Sherly Paul: Educational Consultant and Principal

Mr. Sanjay Srinivas: I Love my Mother Earth, Founder

Details of the

VALUE FORUM 2012will be communicated

to you soon.


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SCHOOL AS A

NON-VIOLENT

ZONES

To bring the Value of True Freedom into our Schools/ Colleges,

every student has to become an APOSTLE OFAHIMSA.

Ahimsa, Non-Violence or Non-Injury is a Value that we need to

Mahatma Gandhi became a Apostle ofAhimsa through his deep understanding of Jesus teaching on the

Sermon on the Mount. The Value of Non Violence or Ahimsa is an essential ingredient of Value Education.

Freedom and Non-Violence are twin sisters. They cannot exist separately. Gandhiji understood that Ahimsawith its dynamism, its passive resistance and firmness in the face of violence, was based on the strong foun-

dation of Truth or Satya. The force behind Ahimsa is the Power of Love over Power of Hatred and Evil.

Looking at the 2012, Global Peace Index, produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, which meas-

ures a countrys peacefulness in a year, ranks Mother India 146/158. Here a country is rated on its ongoing

domestic and international conflict, safe and security in society as well as militarization. Where do we begin to

sow seeds of Peace, Non-Violence?... The place is here, the time is now, the person is me!

In our quest for saving Mother Earth, we collect our garbage, we audit our waste, recycle our refuse. Violence

is a garbage we cannot tolerate. We need to turn guns into ploughshares, bullets into tablets, terror into

peace. Mindsets have to be changed and hearts transformed. Value Education has an important role to play

in truly Saving Mother Earth.

Make the Difference now: Promote Peace Clubs in your Schools

Challenge Students to be Apostles ofAhimas in the neighbourhood

Join and Support Peace Rallies

Voice your Opinion in matters of Truth against Student Ragging

Let your first words be Peace be with you.

Promote the One Life Alliance Pledge by Kia Scherr.

Make A Difference: I Ahimsa


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AVEC : Activities for July 2012

St. Aloysius: BandraTeachers Orientation Program : 7/7/12 Holy Family: Pestom SagarStudents Std X Orientation: 9/7

St. Teresa: Girgaum Teachers Orientation Program : 10/7 St. Dominic Savio: Andheri Student Leaders Orientation 11/7

Regina Pacis : BycullaStudents Orientation Program: 12/7

St. Agnes: Byculla Student Std X Value Orientation 13/7

Regina Pacis : BycullaTeachers Orientation Program: 12/7

Carmel Convent: KalamboliStudent L:eaders Orientation 18/

Convent of JM Khargar: Catholic Students Retreat Khandala 20-21/7 Holy Cross: Lower ParelStudents Std X Orientation 27/7


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AVEC : Activities for July 2012

Cardinal Gracias: BandraTeachers Value Orientation 28/7 Salesian Youth Movement (SYM) Leaders Animation: Wadala

ESSAY COMPETITION

Freedom my Birthright Please send the best three entries in each

category to AVEC by the August 27,

2012.

All entries must be signed by the Value

Coordinator and sealed with a school

stamp

COMPETITION

FOR AUGUST

RESULTS for PHYSICAL VALUE - SPORTS PROJECT: Growing United

and Healthy through Sports, will be declared in the next issue. We have

received some very good entries so far. Congratulations and wish you every success !!!


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