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Karool Massage—Links/References
Brandon Raynor’s School of Natural Therapies
www.brandonraynor.com.au
International Natural Therapists Association
www.INTA.com.au email
Mahboba’s Promise
Excerpt from Canberra Times article by Virginia Haussegger
Tamin's father was killed two years ago by a bomb blast in Kabul. Since then, he's been supporting his mum and three sisters by working the streets as a shoe-shiner. But business is bad, and they're not coping on his piffling income. His mother is here to ask for money, flour and cooking oil. She says she wishes her girls were boys, so that they too could polish shoes. Suddenly she's overcome by the uselessness of her daughters, and starts gulping back loud tears. Then everyone in the room is crying. Not because we agree that girls are a curse. We're just exhausted by all this misery.
Outside the office door at Hope House there's a long queue of weeping widows. Every day they just keep coming. Covered in dirty blue burquas, they pour out their stories of loss, grief, despair and hunger. Always hunger. Some beg the staff to take their children and keep them, because they can no longer feed them. I watched hopelessly as one woman pushed her tiny, bewildered children into the office, and tried to dash away. An uncle left three kids at the orphanage gate saying, ''You take them, or I'll dump them in the bin.''
This is the war we are not seeing. This is life in Afghanistan.
As Australian troop numbers, deployment, and exit strategies dominate our media headlines, I can only wonder why it is that we rarely talk about the ordinary people at the centre of this war. What about the Afghans? Do we care? Perhaps we can't. Maybe we're suffering sympathy fatigue?
Read the rest of the article here (1.9mb PDF)
www.mahbobaspromise.org
Mindfulness Meditation CD’s/Tapes/Books
www.jonkabat-zinn.com
Reality Therapist--Inés Pintos-López
BA Psyc (ANU), CT/RT WGI Cert.
mobile: 0418 475 001
email
The Taoist Tai Chi Society has a variety of classes available
ACT: 6249 6117
Tracey Askew
email
www.calmbirthcanberra.com.au
Dru Yoga
email
October Calm Abiding Retreat - Tibetan Buddhist Society of Canberra
with Lama Choedak Ripoche
www.sakya.com.au/training/october.html
YOU The Owner’s Manual
An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger. (Avail from Amazon. Com)
ArtSound FM 92.7 and 90.3 (Tuggeranong) www.artsound.com.au
TEAR Australia http://www.usefulgifts.org/
Every gift on this website helps people overseas:
- overcome poverty and marginalisation
- take control of their future
- work together to benefit each other
- participate regardless of religious or political beliefs
