In 1999, Prajaapati Vishva Aashram Foundation (PVAF)
was blessed by creator bRHmH to start an
EDUCATION PROGRAM with the following vision,
goals and objectives:
- To REMOVE
ILLITERACY among humankind which is the prime cause of all the
suffering and poverty;
- To REPLACE ILLITERACY
with KNOWLEDGE;
- To continually expand KNOWLEDGE
through learning, teaching, sharing and research;
- To empower humans to attain KNOWLEDGE
which will help them to produce WEALTH to
support, sustain and evolve their lifestyle in the present day and for
tomorrow;
- To empower humans to create environment and tools in their homes with the
acquired KNOWLEDGE and
WEALTH to create well cared for and
sustained family units;
- To empower each family unit with KNOWLEDGE and
WEALTH to continually progress and prosper from generation to
generation;
- To empower each family unit with KNOWLEDGE and
WEALTH to remove suffering created by illiteracy and poverty and
bring welfare, well-being and happiness;
- To empower each family with KNOWLEDGE and WEALTH
to create a collective of such families into communities for collective and
communal living of sharing and helping each other in life;
- To empower each family with KNOWLEDGE and WEALTH
to individually and collectively support the transmission of
KNOWLEDGE from generation to generation;
- To empower humans to use KNOWLEDGE AND WEALTH
to live by DHARm and to uphold
DHARm to co-exist harmoniously within
the family, within the community. DHARm is defined as that system of knowledge
using which:
- one never hurts any body else in thought, word and action
in the lifestyle one chooses to live;
- one co-exists with all of the fellow creations in harmony
and mutual support for existence;
- one co-exists with all the fellow creations with respect
of each creation's self-identity, self-belief, self-codes, self-values,
self-morality;
- one co-exists with the fellow creations supporting each
fellow creations to exist as per its own lifestyle without imposing it on
anybody else;
- one returns service provided by others with greater
service.
- To empower community with KNOWLEDGE and WEALTH
to have harmonious relations with the communities beyond theirs;
- To empower humans to use KNOWLEDGE AND WEALTH
to co-exist with the rest of the creations in harmonious interactions with
respect for the right to exist by other creations with their self-identity,
self-belief and self-lifestyles;
- To empower all communities with KNOWLEDGE and
WEALTH for furthering mutual welfare, well-being, prosperity and
progress.
The above PVAF
EDUCATION PROGRAM is a long list of visions, goals and objectives. The extent of humanity
on this planet earth is very large. The latest
count of humans who would fall under this program is over 5 billion on this planet earth.
The above is a tall order for PVAF.
PVAF started with inadequate resources to develop and implement the full
education program. The program will be continually expanded as the
resource base increases.
PVAF had to also start somewhere on this planet earth with the
EDUCATION PROGRAM. The start
point was picked as pRjaaptio in gujraat in
bhaart (India).
Why this pick?.....
Simply because
the majority of PVAF volunteers live in western countries but have their genetic
roots in communal tribe called pRjaapti who live in the state of
gujraat in bhaart (India). The choice was also an
acknowledgement and a token of human
gratitude to the lands and communities of the forefathers of the PVAF
volunteers.. And thus was born the name of the program:
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM
INTENT OF
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM
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To provide resources to empower parents who suffer from
illiteracy and poverty to acquire KNOWLEDGE
through EDUCATION for themselves and
their children.
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KNOWLEDGE is defined as
education and skills training which will empower the parents and their children
to be employable in the current markets and foreseeable markets. This employment
should be such as to provide income adequate for providing all life necessities
of a family. The necessities of life include:
- a place for family to live,
- food and clothes,
- transportation,
- keeping good health,
- recreation,
- community interaction;
- participation in community,
- continuing education for the parents;
- providing education for children in the family;
- generally meeting all the personal, family and communal
obligations as per the heritage, traditions, stipulations and norms of the
lifestyle codes, values and morality which are collectively termed herein as
one's DHARm.
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The education is to encompass all learning that is necessary
from kindergarten level to any level reaching university degrees. The education
must teach skills for living life and earning a living to sustain life of
oneself and one's family.
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The resources that will be provided by PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM to
empower parents to acquire knowledge for themselves and their children are as
follows:
- Advisory services for life planning and then mentoring for
the deployment of life plan so that the vision, goals and objectives of life
plan to acquire KNOWLEDGE through
EDUCATION knowledge is realized;
- Financial assistance to acquire
KNOWLEDGE through EDUCATION;
- Financial assistance will be need based meaning
the amount of money needed to acquire KNOWLEDGE
through EDUCATION and will include but not
be limited to the following costs:
- Tuition fees;
- Text Books;
- Supplies such as
reading and writing materials:
- Tools of learning
such as computer, internet service, hand held calculator, trade tools;
- Living in a
suitable accommodation if location of education institution is far enough from
home to make daily travel impractical;
- Daily Food if
location of education institution is far enough from home to make daily travel
impractical;;
- Daily, regular
and occasional extracurricular activities to develop personality and life
skills;
- Daily
transportation;
- Regular
communication with family including visits by parents to the education
institution if location of education institution is away from home base;
- Regular
communication stipulated by PVAF with PVAF;
- Transportation
from home base to location of education if the location of education institution
is far enough and make daily travel impractical;
- Any special item
which is necessary for proper learning and personal development while being a
student which will help in future life;
- Any stipulation
of PVAF for proper learning and personal development.
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The financial assistance to be provided by
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM
to parents and students will be determined and provided by
the following criteria:
1. The actual costs of all the items outlined in the need
based resources listing estimated item by item.
2. The total cost to be shared by parents and PVAF. The cost
sharing ratio will depend on the income of the parents and the family of parents
consisting of all children who are earning a living and staying with the family
or separately from the family. This family income will be evaluated to determine
the need of the family income to support the family and to educate the student
to be financed by PVAF. The cost share by parents will be waived if PVAF
determines the inability of the parents to cost share.
3. The finances to be cost shared by PVAF will be made
available for the full extent of the education and till the student completes
the education to be employable to make a living. This financing will only be
provided at the discretion of PVAF upon evaluation of the student's application
by PVAF and for the duration decided by PVAF.
4. The finances to be cost shared by PVAF will be provided
only if PVAF has funds in reserve to meet its commitment to the students to be
financed.
5. This financial assistance is provided by PVAF at its own
discretion and free will and thus PVAF is not obligated to anybody for such
financial assistance at any time.
6. The financial assistance will be remitted to the student
and/or to the student's parents and/or to the institutions providing the
services to the student as decided by PVAF.
7. The financial assistance will be remitted at the beginning
of each learning period in a education year in the manner decided by PVAF.
8. The actual cost of the financial assistance provided by
PVAF will be verified by the recipient by submitting to PVAF the actual official
receipts of the major items of expenditure as the expenditure is incurred. The
non-compliance with this requirement will delay and/or stop the remittance by
PVAF to the recipient in the following term of the education program.
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The receipents of the resources provided by
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM as
noted in this program must conform and comply to the following stipulations.
Non-conformance and non-compliance will result in discontinuation of the
resource assistance. In such a case of discontinuation, the receipents will be
required to pay back all the monies received by the recipient to the date of
discontinuation.
1. The recipient must dedicate fully to learning and
completing the education program that is being financed by PVAF without
distractions of any kind which may negatively affect the student to learn and
complete the education program..
2. The recipient must continue to study in the program and the
institution for which PVAF had approved resource assistance.
3. The recipient must regularly report and communicate to the
PVAF mentor and/or PVAF official allocated to the recipient upon approval of the
resource assistance.
4. The recipient must participate in the activities of PVAF
and PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM as
stipulated by PVAF from time to time.
5. PVAF wishes this PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM to
continue for ever. Thus, the
recipient must commit to participate and offer resources received to others who
are in need after the completion of participation in the program. This
commitment would be through participation in PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM as a
donor. The
commitment will be for a minimum donation equal to the resources received by the
recipient plus a percentage to offset the cost of inflation at the time the
donation is made. However, an offer of a greater commitment than the minimum
will be left to the heart and DHARm of the recipient. This commitment to
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM can
be fulfilled by the recipient on a schedule to be agreed with PVAF upon the
completion of the recipient's program. This schedule of fulfilling the
commitment by the recipient will be agreed with PVAF with an objective of
assisting the recipient to settle down in life without the commitment severely
and negatively impacting life. PVAF will choose through its process the needy
students to be assisted through PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM.
6. The recipient must participate in the activities of PVAF
and PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM after
the completion of the participation in the program so that others who need
similar help in breaking out of illiteracy and poverty gets the same chance as
the recipient got. This is the law of DHARm on which PVAF was
founded on and this is the DHARm on which PVAF will exist on for
ever.
For any questions or for applying to participate in
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM please send an email to:
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM
or
write to
Prajaapati Vishva Aashram Foundation
3103 89 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6K 2Z1.
Please note that the above details of
PVAF
GUJRAAT EDUCATION PROGRAM is periodically
reviewed for updates to conform to the actual and changing life conditions
prevailing at the locations where the program is implemented. Therefore
the latest version of the program will be applicable to all program participants
at any time. PVAF will make adjustments needed in providing resources to the
participants already in the program to conform to the latest version of the
program.
Date of Issue: March 17, 2003.
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