Youth Wing Update
Happenings in June!

June has been a busy month for the youth wing up and down the country. There are lots of activities taking place and if you don't know about it - well you should! The best way to keep in touch is either to pester your local youth coordinator to find out for you or check the youth website, www.saiyouth.org.uk which has new updates pretty much every week. Some important events that took place in the last the month and happening in the coming month are noted below.

Workshop with Professor Suresh Govind - June 14th

On June 14th we were very lucky to have Professor Suresh Govind with us in the UK. We had a special youth workshop in Milton Keynes focused on generating ideas to support some key projects in our Organisation. Professor Govind provided us with some guidance and with his inspirational energy and motivation but the work was done by the youth themselves. We were also looking to have from the UK Council, the Sathya Sai Schools Coordinator Prabodh Mistry and our Central Coordinator, Ishver Patel.

Splitting into various workshops we focused on tackling two of the key priorities for the organisation this year and going forward for the next few years. We explored how as youth we can support the Sathya Sai School in Leicester and how we can take some of the innovative and interesting programmes we do further into our local community. The outcome from the workshops included the youth wing taking an undertaking to look at a with a fresh eye our community service programme and also how to support the school. The region 3 youth team will be looking at trying to focus their skills and talents in the East London area and seeing how they can work with the regional service team and centres to support the needs of the community there. In Leicester, the region 4 youth team will be looking at raising the school profile in the local area and creating new links. If you want to be a part of it - please visit the youth website and email the team.

A big thank you to Milton Keynes Sai Centre who organised the venue and catered for us with some delicious food.

Humanness to Godliness - Region 4 Youth Retreat (25th of July - 27th of July)

Region 4 are organising a summer spiritual showers programme for all youth in the country, the theme being - "Humanness to Godliness". As preparation there has been sadhana meetings and satsangs as well as homework too! All the youth have been diligently reading the volumes of Sathyam Shivam Sundaram and learning more about Swami's live and His mission so far. There are rumours also of an examination and maybe prizes at the retreat (spiritual of course)!! The programme will include esteemed guest speaks, group activities and much more! Many of the youth taking part will also be lucky enough to be part of the Sadhana camp going to Prashanthi this year with Sai Kutir and Ajit Poppat on the 28th of July. We wait to hear back from them and their wonderful journey they are sure to have.

Sathya Sai School - Grand designs meets Ground force

On Saturday 12th of July for two weeks, youth and adults from around the country will be descending on our school to give it a much needed face lift and carry out essential maintainance work. Thank you to all those people who have come forward with help but we still need more assistance! You can help in many ways. We will be carrying out important work which will mean the school can cater for the new students starting on September. More information on the project can be found here or you can email saischool@saiyouth.org.uk.

As you can see there is a lot going on - and this is on top of all the other activities that are going on as usual. It should be an exciting and challenging next month for the youth who are working hard silently to spread the message of Sai and having fun at the same time. Many youth ask how they can be involved and the simple answer is if you want to be a part of it all, you only need three things, commitment, enthusiasm and a bit more commitment. The rest you learn on the job!

With Love,
National Youth Coordinating Committee.