Sai Centre: Manitoba-Saskatchewan
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.
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.
Siloam Mission Service
The Winnipeg Sai Centre has been carrying out this service activity for several years, both initiated and sustained by two devotees at the Sai Centre.. The service is held once a month on every Saturday. The task is to cook and serve a warm meal at the Siloam mission. In general, the cooking is carried out in the morning over a three hour period. Typically, the devotees prepare macaroni and cheese, mixed vegetables, and beans. The items are stored in an oven until they are served at noon. Siloam provides additional items such as bread or buns, salad and dessert to the menu. This makes for a full warm and sumptuous meal for the under-privileged who frequent the mission.
Harvest Service
The Winnipeg Harvest service activity is on every Wednesday of the week and takes place in the basement of the Sai Centre. It starts with the receipt of food sent to the Centre by truck. The window of receiving can vary between 12 to 1:30 pm. It is quite challenging to receive and unload the food items as they have to be transported to the basement. We generally have a group of three volunteers, especially retired devotees, to carry out this activity. Once the food is received and arranged on the tables, this group of volunteers leave.
Nationwide 108 hours continuous Gayatri Mantra Chanting
General meaning: We meditate on that most adored Supreme Lord, the creator, whose effulgence (divine light) illumines all realms (physical, mental and spiritual). May this divine light illumine our intellect.
National Textbook Drives 2016
The Sai Young Adults conducted a National Textbook Drive in all regions as a Back to School service for students in need. This service project expanded beyond the young adults and included volunteers from Sathya Sai Centres across the country, with parents and friends bringing in old and gently used books for donation at their local Centre.
National Environmental Day 2016
Sai Young Adults across the country participated in a National Environmental Day by conducting various activities in service to Mother Nature. The young adults led the activities in all regions, with the support of adults and children.