This time my dear friend Barbara would excuse me as he had suggested me to avoid this kind of discussion but as my dear Italian friend Dr. Tino is trying to glorify his activities therefore I must tell his something.
Dr. Tino do you think that we India are really so poor that we even can't construct a Temple therefore you come from Itali and spend you pocket money for the Temple and glority it. You also told that you work for the people who are out of the ambit of the caste, religion and so on but you also establish Temple for Tribals and so on. How come it? Please I would request you to read carefully about what you have posted here. If you don't know about the tribal culture don't just try to dilute it by showing tribal culture as worshiping Lord Ganesh, performing Bhaja, Kirtan and all. If you want to work in India please read first and then think and work. also don't just blam Mother Teresa. At least you should have some sort of respect for her if you really want to work for the poor. The world started to think for the poor after the mother's work especially for the Leperosy Patient which were treated as Untouchables. Let me also tell you that people like you but Indias once had a huge protest against the Mother asking the Collector to throw out Mother from the vicinity. The Collector ask the mob that if they are ready to carry the work of Mother from tomorrow onward he would really ask mother to leave the vicinity today itself. The crow was stunned, shocked and silet. They were not able to tell a word, went back and never raise a single question against the Mother Teresa. I'm not telling all these to glofity the Mother but just to tell you that you should read, know and then only give your opinion about anything. **************************************************************************************************************** rgds Gladson Dungdung On Thu, 01 May 2008 Costantino Faillace wrote : >Ciampino (Rome) >Dear Indian friends of Jharkhand Forum, > >It is since a couple of months that I receive your messages, I read them with >great interest. The topics that you are passionately debating > are very important and are worth discussing them. > >I am an Italian hydrogeologist, a former UN Project Manager. I worked in many >developing countries of four continents for international >organization dealing with water development projects. I decided, twenty years >ago, at the age of 63, after a heart operation with 4 by-pass >heart operation, to dedicate the remaining years of my life to help the >Adivasi. > >I started my Tribal Village Water Program in Pune district 1989. Since then I >helped more than 500 selected villages supplying safe water. > The water wells were drilled in villages and hamlets where the only water > sources were rudimentary pits dug in depressions and nala >beds and people where suffering for water-born diseases. Preference was given >to villages and places where and the government >had done little or nothing to help the striking water crisis. >In 1994, following an epidemic of cholera in the northern talukas of Thane >District (Maharashtra), with the death of 1500 children, I moved >the program in the affected area. Subsequently, I created a small organization >called Dr. Tino Faillaces Friends of Adivasis Trust. Funds >derived from family savings( now nearly exhausted) and from my International >short term consultancies. For each successful well, we >construct a small mandir where we install a statue of Lord Ganesh, considered >to be the remover of obstacles (the Adivasi people , on request, >selected Lord Ganesh to be installed into the small mandir). People >participate supplying local material: sand, gravel, stones, bricks, if >available, > and labour while constructing the platform for the hand-pump. At the end of > the common work, we perform Pooja, chanting Bhajans. >Following the example of Mother Theresa, we never tried to influence people to >become Christians! Our program is not aiming at changing the >culture and religions of people, we defend their human rights and try our >best to up-lift them to become self-sufficient. We help who >is poor, independently from caste, religions, politics or any believe. > >Also my wife is fully involved as social worker in India, since nearly 12 >years. She is in charge of an education program, with the main goal to >discourage child labour and encourage education, which is the only powerful >tool for human resources development. We spend 50%of our time > in India (November to end of April) and six months in Italy as during the > monsoon time there is no shortage of water, (we have just returned to Italy). > My wifes assistance program is for helping widows with children at school > age. Needy families receive directly from their sponsor a yearly >bonus in the bank account of each child with the mother as the only person >that can withdraw money monthly (we do not handle peoples >money). More than 500 children receive such benefit; they are very poor, >amongst them we have also a few poor Brahmins. It is not a charity >program, we believe that charity makes people depended while our program is >aiming at the up-liftment of school boys and school girls through >education. For our committed social works activities we received several >awards from India and other countries.. > >After all this introduction about myself and my wife, I would like to suggest >that more that going on discussing on conversion, all of you >should start a discussion on the roots and reasons of the striking poverty of >the Adivasi people and what you suggest (getting involved also >personally, not just talking) to solve this very important problem that >already now, specially in your region, is having a tremendous impact on >peace and security. You may find out that there are many cultural aspects at >the roots of the Adivasi poverty, such as the caste system, the > karma, the inferiority complex, the limited access to education, the > isolation, and many other factors that are contributing to create this very >unequal social conditions. >This dramatic reality is still occurring, in spite of your modern Constitution >with its good government laws affirming equality for everybody > since independence. Dr. Ambhekar, your great constitutionalist, respected > and honoured by all Indian people, encouraged Buddhism as a reaction >to these inequalities in the Indian society. >Inequality, this is a good starting point to be discussed in your blog. Your >could and should contribute to spread the message of peace, tolerance, >equality, human rights and love and not so much on the influence of religions: >All religions have good, universal basic principles, there are so many >religions. People should be free to follow the religion that most satisfy >them, they should be able to choose their own religion, and this can be >possible >only if teaching and learning about religion is completely free. After all, >religions teach about spirituality and love for good. Good is for everybody. >Spirituality should be the essence of religions. I am a Christian because I >was born in Italy, but when I enter in a church, in an Indus temple, in a >mosque >or in a Synagogue and I kneel, my thoughts are directed to god who is >everywhere. While kneeling I pronounce the following mandra: God Help me >to Help the Poor! > >We have to understand that when suffering people, like the Adivasi, feel do >not be properly protected by the society, then they search help from >other sources, from other religions! If people are well off, they are less >keen to search for a change! > >On the first of February I had the opportunity to meet your Prime Minister in >an International Conference in Pune, organized by Maharashtra Institute >of Technology (MIT) by my good friend Prof. V. Karad. Listening to his speech, >I was impressed to learn about the great potential of your country, which, in >the time, should bring a lot of expected benefits, if peace will prevail. And >this may depend a lot from you and all of the younger generations of >your generous land! > >For all of you, my Indian brothers and sisters, my best greetings and my love, >Costantino Faillace, (known in India as Dr. Tino) > >P.S. You can find more information about my activity in India (including my >publications) searching in Google: Costantino Faillace > > > >> > > Jharkhand.org.in/forum > (********** shows that the particular Line is moderated by moderator)
