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From Editor in Chief
JAINA RECEIVES AN AWARD
Jai Jinendra!
I wish you all a very Prosperous, Peaceful and Spiritual New Year.
World Medical Relief, Inc. has selected JAINA for their OUTSTANDING COMMITMENT TO THE HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY AWARD. Their President wrote: "This award is being conferred to JAINA for your overwhelming support to the medically impoverished in India. You have shown much compassion- and at great sacrifice- to your fellow countrymen, and we admire your good works tremendously."
They will honor JAINA on March 6, 2004 in Michigan. It is a great recognition we should all be proud of Ramesh P. Shah, Rashmi Gardi, and Dhiraj H. Shah whose dedication and hard work has made this award possible.
This issue of JAIN DIGEST is dedicated to Chairpersons of various JAINA Committees. Presently JAINA has thirty five committees and chairperson of each of these committees have worked day in and day out for years to bring JAINA's services to the 100,000 Jains living in North America and India. They devote their time, money and efforts. They are driven by the motive to make a small difference in the world. Without them, JAINA could not be JAINA. We are proud of them and our hats off to them.
JAINA 2004 CALENDAR
JAINA is delighted to present you this beautiful This year's calendar continues it's Yatra of the rich history of Jain Art & Architecture pre-12h Century. These pictures of 12 architecturally and historically important Jain Temples, Jain Tirths (Temple Cities), Cave Temples, Rock Sculptures and Mountain Carvings geographically dispersed throughout India, depict the richness and vastness of Jain culture across the Indian sub-continent, as well as establishing Jainism as one of the world's most ancient religion.
Thanks to an overwhelmingly positive response by the Jain Community, we are again able to freely distribute 12,000 copies of the JAINA 2004 Calendar to Jain families across North America and other parts of the world. Over 3,500 sets of the JAINA Mini - Library have been distributed to all those who responded and requested for these book sets. We hope to continue to make these Book Sets available to selected Colleges & University Libraries and to all the Jain Center's Pathsala Teachers in North America.
As once someone said :
"World is not moved by
one mighty push But by sum total of all tiny pushes.
Lata Champsee
Rajeev Pandya Chairman, JAINA Calendar and Mini Library Committee.
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