150th anniversary of the birth of Swami Vivekananda's

This week is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Swami Vivekananda.  Follow this link to read how it has affected one BBC world affairs correspondent.

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St Lazarus visit to the Mission

With Swami Nityarupananda and the St Lazarus sponsored children

Meeting Swami Nityananda 

Presenting gifts of pencils and geometry sets to Swami Nityananda 

Hearing impaired girls at the School for hearing and sight impaired  girls

Computer studies

At the Leprosy Village with the St Lazarus sponsored Solar Lights

At the Leprosy Colony in Purulia 

Kitchens and lunch at Purulia

The location for the new library in Purulia

At Joyrambati

Edna Green with Surita her newly sponsored child

Children of Leprosy sufferers needing sponsors

On mother and child support training

Posting on the Blog from Joyrambati

An electrical engineering vocational course at Joyrambati

Nurses at the medical facility in Barrackpore

The RV Mission printing press at Barrackpore 

Some destitute boys in the care of the Mission at Barrackpore 

Distribution of Solar Lights

Distribution of Solar Lanterns sponsored by the John of Gaunt Commandery
of the Order of St Lazarus

New children at the R V Mission Purulia branch  India

The Friends of R V Mission  UK has started  funding for sponsoship of four new children from the families of leprosy sufferers at Purulia District of West Bengal,  India,  at the Purulia centre of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission, starting from the 1st September 2012.

Dr Samir Kumar Ghosh
Secretary  Friends of R V Mission

Donation Received

Our dedicated supporter Pat Scott from Scotland has donated £300 towards our objective by saving coins in a glass jar.  She has also donated £500 last year towards our water project and sponsoring an orphan child at the Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission, West Bengal, India.

Our sincere  thanks and  endless gratitude to our friend Pat.

Samir Ghosh
Secretary  Friends of R V Mission

Secretary of RV Mission

I would like to let you know that our Secretary of R V Mission Swami Nityananda has improved and his health is better now.  We all hope his complete recovery as soon as possible.

AGM 2012

Only the ladies joined in when invited!

Eastern European dance group Opanka entertained us once again

Secretary to the Mission taken ill

With intense sadness we inform you that Swami Nityananda, General Secretary of R V Mission has developed a serious illness and has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a reputed nursing home in Kolkata  for a heart condition.  We send him our prayers for his improvement and  rapid recovery and we are keeping in touch with the Mission constantly for information updates about his condition.

The following sponsored children have successfully passed their final school examination and will be helped by R V Mission to continue with higher studies.

Sl.	Child’s Name	Sponsor’s Name	Marks obtained	Division
01	Rajkumar Pal	Lynne Jones	510	1st
02	Sakila Murmu	Clair Stebbings	294	3rd
03	Sumati Oraon	Catherine Parry	342	2nd
04	Bappa Mondal	Steven Knowles	521	1st

Alice Cruickshank's Birthday Party

Photos from Alice's Casino themed garden party. You may recognise Ian and of course, there's Georgia, Alice's little sister, now almost 13. 

 The sum of £110 was raised by Alice's friends donating their pocket money to the Mission instead of giving her presents for her 18th birthday.