Jain Center Los Angeles CA 1998 07 10th Anniversary of Jain Bhavan

Author(s): Jain Center So CA Los Angeles
Publisher: USA Jain Center Southern California

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A Good Deed Worth Mentioning Jain Center Clean Up Day
by Suken Jain
On Sunday, July 27, 1997, JCYC held it's first Jain Center Clean Up Day. Planned by the JCYC committee, youth and adults came out to do all they could to clean up our place of worship. The Jain Center takes pride in the services of our volunteers and requests others to join in this worthy cause to enhance the beauty of our "second home".
The work that needed to be done included cleaning the fans, TVs, kitchen, pooja room, side storage area in pooja room, shoe racks, silver lamp, white boards, office, polishing rails, removing tape in halls, shower rooms, bathrooms, guest room and arranging chairs. At first, doubts of finishing the tasks arose, but volunteers kept coming in throughout the day and the task began to look attainable
This event began at ten in the morning and lasted until six in the evening. Some people stayed for the whole day and others were there for part of the time. Most of the volunteers were children. There were about 45 children volunteers from ages 7 to 22. They were split in groups and put in a lot of hard work, while using team work. There were about 15 adults, and they put in their share of hard labor too.
The planning and spirit of participation made the event very successful. All of the planned work was completed. After adding it all up, there were over 300 man hours put into this event. The volunteers were rewarded with candy, and a lunch of Jain pizza and soda. Starting with this program, we have come up with a system to make this a regular event with less work.
We plan to have two to three clean up days per year so we can keep our place of worship clean. Look for these opportunities in the coming months and plan on joining us in sharing the tasks.
I, along with the rest of JCYC committee and others, would like to thank all who came out and gave their time and effort.
I finally felt that internal happiness is within myself. I felt the difference between my body and soul and found it is not necessary to eat for the soul to survive. - Bansari Shah (14)
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