In Our Community
Peace Days Celebration
Peace Days was inspired by the Rotary World Peace Partners in 2010. Peace Days grew out of a desire to celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of Peace, designated as September 21st each year. In 2010, Winnipeg celebrated with a Concert for Peace, where music was the medium to communicate the importance of working toward a more peaceful and compassionate society. Peace Days evolved, and in 2015 became a two week-long festival with community events spanning from September 11 through to the International Day of Peace on September 21. Last year, from September 11-21, 2018, Peace Days celebration included a diverse, stimulating program of events throughout Winnipeg to appeal to all ages.
Bhagwan’s Birthday Celebration at Cooksville Sai Centre
On Friday November 23rd we celebrated our Bhagwan’s 93rd Birthday at the Cooksville Sai Center, located at 5359 Timberlea Avenue, Mississauga.
Preparations for this auspicious event had started a few months earlier with dedicated practice of bhajans, the musical melody program and the recitation of the Vedas. The auspicious event started as early as 6 am with the recitation of Suprapatham followed by Nagarasankirthanam, Veda chanting and bhajans until 9.00 AM. More than fifty devotees participated in the morning event. A light breakfast was served. The Cooksville Center was open throughout the day for devotees to come at their convenience, meditate, and receive Swami’s blessing!
Lunch Bag Project
Between the months of August 25th and November 23rd, 2018 members from the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Toronto-York collected over 140 lunch bags, reusable water bottles and containers for the school age children at the Women’s Shelter in Brampton. The Ladies Wing has a long-standing volunteer partnership for over ten years with the Salvation Army-Honey Church Family Life Resource Centre in Brampton.
Nation wide 108 hours continuous Gayatri mantra Chanting
Service Activities at the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Saskatoon
Service Activities at the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Centre of Saskatoon
ROCK YOUR ROOTS – “Walk For Reconciliation”
Over the last several years, the Sai Centre of Saskatoon have forged a relationship with the local First Nation Community through Walk for Values events and a Multi Faith Group. In addition, the Sai Centre has provided Dynamic Parenting Workshops and served at the Pleasant Hill School.
Senior Residence – Oliver Lodge Visit
A visit to the Olivier Lodge senior residence home was made on April 29, 2018 by SSE students including Pre-SSE children and young adults along with SSE gurus, coordinators and parents during the regular class hour. The objective was to spend some time with the residents and involve them with some activities of their interest in order to inculcate the values of love, care, and share among the children.
Weekly Soup Project
n earlier 2016, the Indo-Canadian Christian Fellowship group members from Saskatoon approached the Sai Centre to help them in an ongoing service activity. We were approached saying “You SAI folks do service activities and wondering whether your group would be interested in a hands-on service that we like to add to an ongoing project”. The event was described as below by the group.
Mother’s Day Prayers & Bhajan organized by the Ladies Wing
The Ladies Wing worked with the Youth Wing to organize a special bhajan for our dear Sai Ma and all the mothers of Cooksville Sai Centre. The young adults sang beautiful bhajans followed by children who presented a theme-based song for all mothers. The Ladies Wing brought flowers and the children presented them to all mothers after offering padanamaskar.
Amazing Grace “The World Cup of Human Values”
On Saturday May 5th, 2018, 25 Sai Young Adults from the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Center of Cooksville held their 10th annual event of Amazing Grace. The theme of this year’s Amazing Grace revolved around the FIFA world cup along with the “Go green” initiative. The event saw the participation of all SSE children, parents, Gurus and volunteers. All participants were divided into the 8 countries that were playing in the 2018 FIFA. The focus was on the children as the event was held to observe Easwaramma Day.