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NEW JERSEY MANDIR
TO ASSIST NEEDY CHILDREN HERE

Guyana Chronicle
Georgetown, Guyana, August 16, 2006

The New Jersey Arya Samaj Mandir Incorporated says it has just completed a round of fund-raising activities with the proceeds going towards helping the less fortunate children in Guyana for its 2006 Mission. This is the second year that the mandir (church) is involved in its humanitarian mission to Guyana, and a secretariat has been set up here by the Berbice Central Arya Samaj to process requests for assistance from families and children in Guyana.

Some one thousand applications for assistance have been received, it said in a press release. Some of the applications came from families with disabled children, and the mission said it will place special emphasis on visiting these homes to assess at first hand their specific needs.

The mission said it will also continue to work with various orphanages on the Corentyne Coast, as it did last year. According to the group, it is particularly interested in improving the standard of living among children in orphanages. “We will make it our duty to have these children feel as if they have families of their own that love and care for them, as if they really belong,” the mandir said.

“The idea behind the Humanitarian Mission and the work with orphanages in Guyana and with other less fortunate children is its desire to serve the poor, as we are told that to serve the poor is to serve the Lord, and to feed the poor is to feed the individual self as well”, it said. Funds raised by the New Jersey Mandir are donations mostly from American-Guyanese and Americans. The New Jersey Arya Samaj Mandir collaborates with the Guyana Central Arya Samaj and the Berbice Central Arya Samaj in social, charitable and humanitarian work for the less fortunate children in Guyana.

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