Microfinance has evolved over the past quarter century across India into various operating forms and to a varying degree of Ven. Dr. Nando Batha, the President of the Society, and Mr. Philip Barau, General Secretary, addressing at the Group Leaders-meeting success. One such form of microfinance has been the development of the self-help movement. Based on the concept of “self-help,” small groups  of women have formed into groups of ten to twenty and operate a savings-first business model whereby the member’s savings are used to fund loans.  The results from these self-help groups (SHGs) are promising and have become a focus of intense examination as it is proving to be an effective
method of poverty reduction. Experience worldwide shows that when microfinance services reach women, the benefits are particularly sustainable.
Savings rates are higher; group life is more intensive; repayment rates are remarkable; enterprise growth and graduation are stronger;
and there are measurable improvements in child nutrition and education, family health and household sanitation, shelter and general welfare.

Dana is the word derived from Pali literature.  It means the offering or sacrificing.  Dana cannot be performed by everybody.  In many Jatakas and Buddhist literatures we can find the significance of Dana.  The Buddha has donated even his life for welfare of the others.  In one of the Suttas the
Buddha pointed out “Danato Bhogava” carrying the meaning that those who donate become rich.  In my earlier years I used to think that those people who are rich may not perform great Dana.  In deed, rich people become rich because of their generosity and their efforts.  
We will not find anybody who becomes poor because of their donation in this world.  In fact, donation will make you richer and happier. 
This is agreed by the Buddha’s word – Danato Bhogava.

Dear Dhamma Friends, We are very happy to announce that Bodhisukha Parahita Temple, Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission is going to organize
4th Intensive English Course in association with Buddhist Relief Mission from 15th March to 15th April 2011 at its premises. We are very happy t
o get confirmation about the course from our Dayakas –Mr Ken and Visakha Kawasaki, directors of BRM. Ken and Viskha are living a life of literary  and education, supporting Buddha Sasana worldwide, at Kandy, Sri Lanka. Very recently they released a book retold by them
“Jataka Tales of the Buddha: An Anthology” published by Buddhist

မဇၥ်ိမ ဘုရားဖူး၊ သာသနာျပဳဒါနႏွင့္ ေက်ာင္းအလွဴ
ဘုရားလည္းဖူး လိပ္ဥလည္းတူး ဆုိသည့္ စကားကုိ အျပဳသေဘာဖက္က အဓိပၸါယ္ေဆာင္သင့္ၾကသည္မွာ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္၌ လုိအပ္ခ်က္တခုျဖစ္ခဲ့သည္။ ယခုေခတ္ ဘုရားဖူးေတြလည္း ဆင္ျခင္ က်င့္သုံးၾက ဖုိ႔လုိအပ္ဆဲ။ ခုေရာ ေနာင္ပါ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ ဘုရားဖူးမ်ား အတြက္ပါ သမုိင္းႏွင့္ခ်ီေသာ နမူနာေတြက အမ်ားသား။

Ahimsa (Non-violence)By Ven. Dr. Nando Batha, 7/9/2009Good evening to the most respectable religious leaders, all dignitaries, ladies and gentle men:It is great pleasure to be with you here today.  I am very much grateful to the organizers of this great event for giving me a chance to speak at this program.  I like to discuss about

Background
Russa Road Young Buddhist Student Literacy Mission was established in 1995 and duly registered under the Society Registration Act. XXVI of 1961 of West Bengal on 31/10/95, and also registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of Government of India on 30/6/2000, for the purpose of creating a new age in which the human family can live in peace and dignity.

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