More funding, this time from the World Bank for "equipping 60 centres in India with a 5kW solar PV system and providing 300 centres with a 1 kW system". I bet the World Bank does not get copies of the Murli either.
They are also "
making it available to the public at affordable prices" by providing information and selling thousands of solar lanterns through its Solar Shop on the Shantivan campus. Does that mean business, as in selling it to the locals for a profit after having accepted funding from the German Government and World Bank themselves?
From;
BKWSU Solar Energy. More details, someone, please.
• Is the "'Charitable Trust to Promote Social, Medical and Cultural Institutions in India, Bremen, Germany" a BKWSU front like "Indiacare, Berlin"?
Are they inventing charities to syphon funds to the BKWSU network in India? It appears to be where most of the goodies are going to. Not a lot of mention of the Brahmakumaris on the Indiacare website but Janki scores high, as usual.
Indiacare was set up as a charity with tax breaks for the "Promotion of charitable projects public health care in India". It channels money into the Global Hospital projects from non-BK sources such as Johnson and Johnson and the renewables above.
Some of the funding for Global Hospital and projects in Abu is also coming through
Global Harmony Foundation, a Swiss charity, which appears to have some BKWSU/LVEP input, e.g. Chris Drake and the patronage of the late actor Sir Peter Ustinov, who came close via the Global Cooperation project, if my memory serves me correct.
• IndiaCare shares an address with the Berlin BKWSU Raja Yoga center although no mention of connection are made at either ends.
• Point of Life Inc, USA which is said to support the work of GHRC and "co-sponsors educational events for health professionals, including seminars and retreats, in New York" is also based at the same address as the BKWSU Regional Office for North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. I wonder who the other co-sponsor is? The BKWSU perhaps? It also pushing the "Values in Healthcare" programme designed by the Janki Foundation in the UK and asks for donations outright;
here. The pages might change but I have taken a copy of them;
POL wrote:What you can do: if you are inspired and would like to:
Get involved or be kept informed of current activities of the Foundation within the United States
Sponsor a program in your facility for your staff or co-workers
Extend your support to the Global Hospital & Research Center and other similar projects through donation of equipment, monetary assistance or volunteering of your expertise ...
Contributions to the Point of Life Foundation are tax-exemptThe Point of Life Foundation (POL) is a US non-profit entity, established to serve the global community. It is founded on the vision of a spiritual model of health care with focus on the well-being of the whole person. It aims to integrate a people-centered approach within the existing paradigms in healthcare and to inform people about issues relevant to the holistic, with emphasis on the spiritual approach to health, care, healing, self-care, and healthcare education.
So that blows the "we do not ask or take for donations" line, yet again.Partnerships: POL currently works in partnership with:
POL continues to explore partnerships and exchanges with other organizations that are studying the spiritual dimensions and related parameters of health, care, and healing.
So that looks like to me the BKWSU partners with the BKWSU and the BKWSU ... and asks for donations to support it, pulling in a few non-BK that do not get what is going on ... or really do want to try and make a difference.
Point of Life Foundation holds it retreats at (guess where?) The Peace Village ... no mention of who runs it ... and offers (guess what?) ...
SELF MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP COURSES and retreats with themes such as "Meditation: The Ancient Art of Nurturing the Self". (Ancient meaning approximately to 1936-37 in the Brahmakumaris' case ... its the old "Ancient Raja Yoga" con trick again). They also sell the "Values in Healthcare" pack for approx $300 plus postage and packaging depending on exchange rates.
So there you have some more of it ... the above is not from the BKWSU, it is from the Point of Light Foundation offering the old Brian Bacon Oxford Leadership Academy licensed course.
I think most people on this forum would agree contradictory to the original principles to the point of a messy, unprofessional dishonesty (even if, thankfully some good comes out of it for some poor). The old BKWSU pea under the shell game ... with now, financial strings attached. By why did they spend a Million Pounds on some retreat center in England when there is all that suffering and poverty next door to Abu?
I don't know what to make of this, so please accept it as work in progress. One blog spoke of the Abu hospital being pretty empty and so I am wondering if, having stuck their necks out to take over the management of these hospitals, they are now having to scrabble around for money and goods to back themselves up. At other's expense ... ? One thing has to be for sure, it is business as usual and being used as a front for core BK activities. But, I am left wondering whether the cart is pulling the horse on this one.
Any second opinions, doctors?
"All is fair in Love, War and Godly Seva ..."