Brisbane Theosophical Order of Service.

Brisbane Theosophical
Order of Service

President:	Tina Fiedler	click to e-mail
Vice-president:	Geoff Harrod
Secretary:	Janet Harding
Treasurer:	Carolyn Harrod

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Current News Updated: 16 SEP 2011

Annual General Meeting Report

The Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 4 December, 2010. The office bearers for 2011 are: President: Tina Fiedler, Vice-President: Geoff Harrod, Secretary: Janet Harding, Treasurer: Carolyn Harrod. Robyn Rizzo is the TOS Representative to the Brisbane Theosophical Society Committee.

TOS members work in a number of areas, choosing ones of particular interest to them. The areas of service are: community service and education, healing, animal welfare, environment, and peace. For information, talk to one of the committee or explore our web pages

Donations to service activities

At the June planning meeting, members decided to distribute the funds raised during the year as follows:

$1000 to the Assam TOS for their mobility aids program

$1000 to the Golden Link College organised by the Philippines TOS

$1000 to the Literacy home-schools organised by the Pakistan TOS

$500 to the Animal Clinic at Adyar

Funds were also set aside for our local homeless women project.

The June sale table raised $204 for the Hamlin Fistula Relief program in Ethiopia.

The September sale table raised $163 for the Homeless Women project

The Cinema Event raised $651 for the Pakistan schools project and the Hamlin Fistula rlief program.

Assam Mobility Aids program

A literacy home-school in the slums of Karachi, Pakistan provides free basic education.

The Hamlin Fistula Relief program in Ethiopia promotes safe birthing practices and provides free surgery for women who become incontinent as a result of birthing difficulties. Many of these women are hidden away and ostracised by their communities and a simple operation restores not only their health but also enables them to have a normal life within their society. For more information on the fistula relief program visit their website at www.hamlinfistula.org.au

Activities coming up

Healing from the Forest seminar
You and your friends are invited to this seminar that the TOS is organising to recognise the UN Year of the Forest.

Date: Saturday 1 October – 9:00 to 3:30
Venue: Brisbane TS main meeting room
Cost: a gold coin or more, with proceeds going to the Pakistan literacy home-school

The program will include talks on Using Essential Oils from the Forest, How Forests Help Heal Our Planet and The Spiritual Dimension of Forests and conclude with a creative workshop, Exploring Our Personal Responses to the Forest, led by two artists.

A registration form will be in the TS library from 29 August.

Poster in Acrobat PDF format

Sale tables

Bring your gold coins along to the TS meeting on Friday 2 December to spend on books and goodies such as jam, pickles, biscuits and fresh produce. Money raised from this sale table will be used for our homeless women project.

Guided Meditation book and CD

A book and CD on Guided Meditation by Dr. K Arunachalam is available from the TOS. Aru has taught meditation at the Brisbane TS for many years. He has generously donated this work to the Brisbane TOS and all profit from sales will go to TOS Projects. The set of book and CD costs $12. You can purchase a set from the Brisbane TS Bookshop or by contacting any TOS committee member.