Sanatan Jyoti - Bharat Sevashram Sangha

ETERNAL LIGHT ♦ SANATAN JYOTI ♦ 2013Youth Summer Camp at Bharat Sevashram Sangha, ChicagoEvery year Bharat Sevashram Sangha, Chicago conducts full day Youth SummerCamp for 10 days. Theme of the camp usually based on Ramayana. Camp teacheskids each kanda of Ramayana every day and how they can apply its lessons eventoday in their daily life. In order to make sure kids able to learned what’s beentaught, camp organizers provides a set of question answer sheet on the kandataught on that day and kids practiced those to make sure all the kids are able toabsorb what they learn in spite of various age differences. In addition to Ramayankids learnes and practices yoga and meditation under the supervision of Swamiji orinstructors comes from yoga center. In 2012, kids were taken to Scitech museum forfield trip. In 2012, volunteers came from Fermilab to show presentation on electricity,magnetism and another day volunteer from Fermilab showed kids Cryogenic show.Kids and volunteers enjoyed the show very much. Apart from these kids learnedabout vegetarianism, devotional song, drawing and painting. On final day of thecamp kids participates in a quiz competition to prove how much they have learnedabout Ramayana and also got attractive prizes. Apart from religious teaching kidsgot ample play time every day. All kids get prizes at the end of the camp. Lunch,snack, art materials are provided by the Ashram. In 2011 Hanuman chalisa speciallymade for children with its meaning were distributed to all kids. In the graduationceremony kids performs a drama and dance based on Ramayana. BharatSevashram Sangha is very much thankful to all the volunteers and to all the peoplewho sponsored food and other thing. Without there help it would not have been sosuccessful. May God bless them all.26BHARAT SEVASHRAM SANGHA OF NORTH AMERICA, CHICAGO