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FUNDRAISING
There are many interesting
ways in which you can help support Ganga Prem
Hospice. One of these is fundraising.
Fundraising can be an exciting
and meaningful experience for oneself and one's
friends, as well as being a help and support to
terminally ill cancer patients in North India.
Some ideas for fundraising are: sponsored walks,
sales and raffles, benefit concerts and shows,
charity dinners and parties, etc. See what you
can do!
Upcoming fundraisers
Pilgrimage into North India
Date: February 24th
to March 16th, 2012
Location: India
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Zweers has been taking people on pilgrimages
to the most important Hindu and Buddhist spiritual
centres of both North and South India since
1994. She is now organising a tour of North
India in February-March which will take you
to some of the most sacred places the North
has to offer, traveling through Varanasi,
Sarnath, Haridwar, Rishikesh and Uttarkashi.
Part of the proceeds will be donated to Ganga
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| View from Lakshman
Jhula, Rishikesh |
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Visit her website at
www.sacredindiatours.com.
Contact Purnima at purnima108@yahoo.com.
Devon
Yoga Festival in the U.K.
Date: August 10th to 12th, 2012
Venue: Seale-Hayne
Address: Near Newton Abbot (just off the A38),
Devon, TQ12 6NQ, U.K.
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The three-day Devon
Yoga Festival will take place at a beautiful
venue set in the heart of the countryside
and will offer over 40 yoga workshops as
well as live music and kirtan. There will
be vegetarian food and comfortable accomodation.
The festival will be a non-profit event
in support of Ganga Prem Hospice.
For more information,
please visit www.devonyogafestival.co.uk.
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Ongoing fundraisers
Help
build the Hospice wall!
Date: Ongoing
Location: Worldwide
You can help build the
Ganga Prem Hospice by taking part in our
"Build the Hospice wall" fundraiser.
Buy a virtual brick and watch as our wall
grows higher and higher!
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Ganga Prem Hospice has launched an
appeal to all its supporters to help
with the construction of the first
phase, which will begin before the
end of the year. You can sponsor a
brick(s) valued at $400, £250,
€275 or Rs. 18,000, on which
your name will be displayed. Your
brick(s) will join others to complete
the wall of your currency, after which
the first phase of the Hospice will
be funded in its entirety.
Now is the time
to help!
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Click here
to find out more.
Ganga
Prem Hospice gift cards
Date: Ongoing
Location: Worldwide
Buy Ganga Prem Hospice
gift cards and make a difference in a terminally
ill cancer patient's life by sponsoring
their medicines, nutritional supplements
and professional medical home care. These
gift cards can be given on any occasion
such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries,
etc.
With these $10 and
$20 gift cards, our patients will receive
loving care and pain-free days, and your
loved ones will have the satisfaction of
knowing that they helped someone on their
own special day.
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| A $10 gift
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| B $10 gift
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| C $20 gift
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Sample text
(from a $10 gift card):
"A
donation to Ganga Prem Hospice has been made in
your honour which will provide four days of home
care visits to terminally ill cancer patients
of Ganga Prem Hospice in Rishikesh, North India."
On purchase of a gift card,
one terminally ill cancer patient will receive:
• for $10,
four days of home care visits
• for $20,
one week of home care visits
Please send your orders (letter(s)
and quantity) to Padma Rao at Shivajiii@yahoo.com
or (415) 456-8850. Cheques and money orders can
be made out to Padma Rao and sent to:
Padma Rao
259 Clorinda Ave
San Rafael, CA 94901
USA
For
any queries, please feel free to write to Pooja
Dogra at info@gangapremhospice.org.
Francesca
Genco and Live Shakini CD on sale
Date: Ongoing
Location: California, U.S.A.
Francesca Genco and her band,
known as Shakini, have chosen to support Ganga
Prem Hospice by donating the proceeds of the sale
two of their CDs.
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Francesca Genco and her
shruti box
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The first is Francesca Genco's first studio
album entitled Numinous River, a
collection of improvised chants in Sanskrit
recorded in Laura Inserra's studio. The
second is a live recording of Shakini's
chanting and sound healing circle held in
July.
"Shakini is a group of talented singers
and musicians who create exquisitely powerful
soundscapes of sacred chant, improvised
vocals and evocative rhythms. Their music
will take you on a journey into the heart
of sound, whether you chant, dance or simply
relax and listen."
You can listen to Numinous River
in its entirety for free by clicking here.
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For more information, contact
Francesca Genco at info@songofthebody.com.
You can also visit her website at: www.songofthebody.com
Nomadic
Boutic
Date: Ongoing
Location: France
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Corinne Burgalière
supports Ganga Prem Hospice by giving us
part of the proceeds from her e-shop, Nomadic
Boutic. Corinne visits India frequently
and her shop has an interesting display
of Indian jewelry and clothes.
You can visit her shop
at: http://nomadicboutic.com/
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| Jewelery on sale
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Past fundraisers
Krishna
Das charity concert in Rishikesh
Date: January
2nd, 2012
Venue: Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh
Reknowned artist Krishna
Das, famed for his uplifting devotional
music, performed in Rishikesh on January
2nd for a crowd of nearly 500 people. Opening
for him were the Ma Chetan Jyoti Music Academy
children. All proceeds from the concert
went to Ganga Prem Hospice.
Om
Diwali Pumpkin Lanterns in Iowa, USA
Date: October
26, 2th, 2011
Location: Farmers Market, Fairfield, Iowa,
USA
Karen Koerber sold
Diwali lanterns with Om carved on them in
aid of Ganga Prem Hospice in Fairfield,
Iowa on the day of Divali
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| Karen selling
the OM pumpkin lanterns at the
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Karen
Koerber did an interesting Diwali fundraiser
for Ganga Prem Hospice in Fairfield,
Iowa on 26.10.11. She made Diwali Lanterns
of carved pumpkins with the sacred syllable
"Om" and sold them at the
local Farmer's Market to raise funds
for the hospice. Despite the fact that
Diwali fell on the coldest day of the
year so far, those few people who attended
the Market were warm-hearted and donated
$75 to Ganga Prem Hospice.
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Karen thanks her partner
Claude and dear friend Sharona for their
loving and selfless assistance!
Open
house in Southeast London, U.K.
Date: October
22nd, 2011
Location: New Cross, Southeast London, U.K.
Caroline
Tautz organised an open house in aid of
Ganga Prem Hospice in her home/private yoga
studio in New Cross, SE London.
The event was a real
community effort. Many of Caroline's yoga
students helped with the cooking of a delicious
vegetarian lunch which was served at noon.
Swami Saradananda gave a talk on her book,
The Power of Breath, and a number
of taster therapies were available to the
public including sacro-cranial, shiatsu
and bodywork.
The event was successful
and raised just over £1,000 for Ganga
Prem Hospice. A big thank you to Caroline
Tautz for organising and hosting the fundraiser!
Satsang
in honour of World Hospice Day
Date:
October 8th, 2011
Location: New Malden, Surrey, U.K.
Gabrielle Steen hosted
a satsang in honour of World Hospice Day
on October 8th, 2011 at her home in New
Malden, South London. There was a silent
meditation and prayers for the more than
one million people diagnosed with cancer
in India each year.
The satsang marked
the end of Navaratri, the nine-night celebration
in honour of the Divine Mother. Swami Saradananda
spoke on the inner meaning of the celebration
and how a deeper understanding of it can
uplift our yoga practice.
Everyone had a wonderful
time and £125 was raised in aid of
Ganga Prem Hospice.
Slow
Train to India: U.K. to India by tuk-tuk
Date: July 14th
to September 20th, 2011
Location: Nottingham, U.K. to Delhi, India
The Slow Train to India
expedition in aid of Ganga Prem Hospice
and other charities concluded successfully
after having traversed 14 countries and
10,000 kilometres over 68 days, all in a
three-wheeled auto-rickshaw.
On 20th September,
when Sanjay Sharma and his two companions,
Anand Mohan Bhardwaj and Sumit Joshi, drove
their auto-rickshaw, Flying Rani, into Delhi
and sighted the historic India Gate, it
meant that they had accomplished a very
extraordinary feat. They had set out from
Nottingham more than two months ago with
the goal of reaching far away India. The
expedition received promises from several
donors, particularly in Gujarat, that they
would donate a handsome amount to the Hospice.
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| Sanjay and his
team arrive in their tuk-tuk, Flying
Rani |
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| GPH volunteers
wave a banner of welcome for the trio |
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The Indian leg of the
Nottingham to Delhi expedition was by far the
most successful for the Slow Train to India. Not
only did it see Indians offering to donate, it
also had local people as well as newspapers and
television news channels much interested in knowing
more about why somebody had driven an auto-rickshaw
all the way from the U.K. At each nightly halt
in Indian cities (Mumbai, Surat, Gandhi Nagar,
Vapi, Udaipur, Jaipur and then finally Delhi),
the team gave interviews to the press about their
chosen cause.
One of the three expedition
members, Anand Mohan Bhardwaj extensively used
his contacts in India to gather support for the
Slow Train to India. His wife, Manju, worked tirelessly
behind the scenes to raise funds.
At India Gate in Delhi,
Sanjay's family members along with Ganga Prem
Hospice volunteers were there to welcome the Slow
Train team, which then gave interviews to the
media about their epic journey.
Soul
Ride from Barcelona to London
Date: July 29th,
2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Soul Rider is a self-empowerment
organization which has decided to support Ganga
Prem Hospice as one of its charities. At the end
of July, they supported us through a long-distance
motorcycle ride from Barcelona to London.
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the 29th of July, Rishabh Sharma, the Soul
Rider, left on his fundraising journey from
Barcelona to London. The sponsored journey
was intended to raise awareness about the
Soul Rider foundation and its aims, and also
to raise funds for its chosen charities. The
ride which took three days raised Rs. 30,000
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| Rishabh Sharma's
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Thank you to Rishabh Sharma
and the Soul Rider foundation. Efforts like this
mean so much to Ganga Prem Hospice and its patients.
Garden
party in New Malden, Surrey
Date: July 23rd, 2011
Location: New Malden, Surrey, U.K.
On
Saturday, July 23rd, Nataraja-Gabriele Steen and
the Westminster School of Yoga arranged a "party"
to raise funds for Ganga Prem Hospice.
Students, teachers, friends
and neighbours celebrated the sunny day with tea,
home-baked cakes, and Thai canapés (all
donated) in the garden.
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| A stall at the
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lends a helping a hand |
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April Pierrot and several other therapists donated
"taster" treatments, Swami Saradananda
gave two talks on "The Power of Breath",
and raffle tickets were drawn. Handmade soaps,
aromatherapy creams and ayurvedic incense were
on sale—as well as a number of other donated
items. The children's table was a big hit with
the younger attendees. In all, it was a lovely
and easeful day that raised just over £1,000
for the charity.
Thank you Gabrielle. Your
fundraisers mean a lot to Ganga Prem Hospice and
its patients.
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