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JAINA MARCHES ON........
Since Convention 2007
• Jain Diaspora: At the 2007 Convention, JAINA initiates a . Two publishing houses invited JAINA to edit material global platform for Jains all over the world with the blessings on JAINISM before their books are published. from Dr. L M Singhvi.
Tony Blair Faith Foundation: JAINA delegation is • Jain Way of Life: A handbook for compassionate, healthy invited to the inauguration of a new faith based initiative by and happy living is published by JAINA and has gone for the former Prime Minister of England. the third printing.
• JAINA launches relief operation for the victims of • Mangalam a Sunday morning TV program by JAINA Cyclone Nargis in Burma. 20,000 Health kits are being started on TV ASIA.
dispatched through our Indian partner "Ratna Nidhi
Charitable Trust". • Campus Outreach Initiative of JAINA in cooperation with YJA will help form Jain Students associations on JAINA Education Committee: E-library project added campuses to connect Jain students with each other and with 300 more Jain books to the 600 books scanned previously local Jain centers.
and posted on JAINA Web site. Published a colorful book
BASICS OF JAINISM by one of our youth which has been • JAINA receives UN recognition: For its humanitarian
extremely well received. work, UN grants consultative status to JAINA with the Economic & Social Council.
• 2009 JAINA Convention Planning for the convention in
Los Angeles based on the theme of Ecology is in full force. • JAINA Liaison office in Mumbai will soon be operational
• New Web Site Completely redesigned JAINA web site
will be inaugurated in October. • JAINA Pilgrimage Committee organized 2008 Teerth Yatra to Jaisalmer and other Teerths of Rajasthan and Gujarat JAINA Constitution After 15 years will be revised this Planning for the next Yatra in January of 2009 to Shri Samet year by the Board of Directors. Shikharji is already under way.
JAINA Calendar Committee is working hard to bring • YJA Convention in Chicago in July 2008 has been 2009 Calendar with Jain holidays. designed to entertain, educate and energize 700 of our
• JAINA VRG Scholarship Committee has given 4 youngsters.
scholarships this year in India for higher studies in Jainism. • JAIN Milan was held in Houston where 96 young Jains
• Prominent Jain Organizations in India have requested participated in May 2008.
JAINA to take lead in International initiative for restorations • The Pope Receives JAINA Delegation At a special of Jain Temples in Pakistan and elsewhere. interfaith meeting in Washington, D. C, 10 Jains were invited. A custom made Ahimsa Cube was presented to the Pope.
JAIN DIGEST needs a new Editor
For the past 12 years, Lataben Champsee of Toronto has served as an Editor in Chief of JAIN DIGEST. She has served as JAINA director for the past many years and presently she is a First Vice President of JAINA and also the Convener of the 2009 JAINA Convention. As she tries to fulfill various responsibilities in JAINA, she has indicated a desire to have someone else assume responsibilities of Editorship of JAIN DIGEST. JAINA had a couple of guest editors for past three years to take care of publishing Jain Digest. Our present guest editor was unable to publish the current issue. Lataben volunteered to publish the current issue and is being published under difficult time restraints.
Please let me know if you or anyone you may know who can undertake the job as an Editor in Chief of Jain Digest. Please write to me at Dilipvshah@ gmail.com or call at 215 561 0581
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