The nine-day celebration in Hinduism called Navrati honors the Goddess Shakti, who is often described as the personification of divine feminine creativity. During late March to early April, Hindus commemorate the Goddess by fasting, and also celebrate the young girls in their households and communities by washing their feet, a symbol of respect and honor [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2010 by TMF
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April has been another busy month at The Miracle Foundation! All of our March travelers have arrived safely back in the States and had a wonderful time. Some exciting news from India is that the children studied very hard for their exams and received report cards with mostly all A’s! We will be sending sponsors [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by TMF
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April 13th is an important day in India because it marks a celebration for three of India’s prominent religions: Sikhism, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as a day of harvest for the farmer’s in Northern India. In 1699, Guru Gobind Singh founded Khalsa Panth, or Order of the Pure Ones, which established a unique identity [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2010 by TMF
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What we’ve learned from Eduardo In his blog entitled “Se solicitaban trabajadores para la construccion” (in English, “Seeking construction workers”), Eduardo tells the surprising story of women being sought for construction labor. As Eduardo investigated this story, he says he found that the requirements for a construction job in India are an age between 20 [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2010 by TMF
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010 I’ve been home from India for a week now. I’m still absorbing all that I experienced and am trying to determine how best to express it. It seems that words simply don’t exist to describe the joy and sorrow I felt as I witnessed the magnitude of such an amazingly rich [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by TMF
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