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Keeping you in the picture

Dear beloved friends,

It is wonderful to have this opportunity to connect with you, but nothing would compare to having you visit us in Bali, so that we could wrap you in our hearts and arms in gratitude.

On behalf of Karuna Bali family I wanted to take a minute to thank all our beloved donors, those who I have known personally and also to those whom I haven’t met yet.  We are so closely connected in our hearts due to having this same aim, fulfilling divine purpose on the planet, allowing ourselves to be the instruments for the divine energy to flow, extending love and inspiration.
 
Above is the latest movie created by the team.

Your commitment has been evident in providing education opportunities for the Balinese and Indonesians who truly need help.  Today’s success is a credit to all the time and effort you have devoted to this. Every little drop that you have put into the Coffee Club, has helped make everything we do possible and I truly look forward to continuing together.

Below is an update on the different departments and what they have achieved.

MEDIA PRODUCTION

The Media Production Department for the last 3 months has been working closely with every Karuna Bali department to capture the values activities within each program. As the result several movies now have been produced and more are in the pipeline. These movies have touched and inspired many people, showing them how values activities can be implemented.  They invite everyone to join the journey in bringing values alive in practical ways.

Media production also has given two workshops to our one year students and successfully inspired them to create their own movies. The have also provided the internship for four vocational high school students.  At this stage accumulating credits is vitally important for Media Production before it begins to provide it services to wider community through one year courses on documentary Movie Production.                                 

CAMPUHAN COLLEGE


Just recently we had the honour to welcome the visit of La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club, Minneapolis, Delmar, and Minneapolis South to our College. Their visit is related to the 15 Macintosh computers they donated to Campuhan College.

Our students shared with the Rotarians the importance of this wonderful donation, providing students with the opportunity to continue their study outside the classroom, which opens up many more hours of practice and application enhancing their skills in the field of design.

The benefits of the donation will also extend to villages where our students will be paying forward by offering computer training to rural school teachers through our EduCare Program.

EDUCARE

This year the EduCare Program has been astonishingly successful in bringing the tangible experience of values based education to 5 schools in sub district of Payangan. It has inspired more teachers to participate in implementing a sensitive new approach in education.

The Department of Education, of Gianyar regency has recommended to schools to adopt this kind of education approach and as a result 19 schools have applied to be included in the Educare program.

The number of university students participating as volunteers has also increased tremendously.

Preparing the future young teachers for this new kind of education approach is vitally important, therefore before we begin to serve the schools, we provide Living Values workshops to all the volunteers and our students including a 3 day leadership and teambuilding program.

TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM

The role of Teacher Training Program which we offer on a free education basis to teachers who want to enhance their ability to teach has been very well received.  It is vital in the preparation and monitoring of how values are implemented in every program.

The Teacher Training Program has given several living values workshops to educators and workshops such as Courage to Lead, Facilitative Leadership and workshops for English teachers.

The next series will be ‘Stop being afraid of being afraid’ and ‘Inner Leadership’.  These programs have given tremendous benefit to many, to truly encourage them to develop their innate values as a guiding principal for life.  We are so inspired to have witnessed the blossoming of everyone who experienced these programs.

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