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FOUR New V-Care Teams form in New Goloka

(Hillsborough, N.C.)Posted on: January 27, 2015

After a recent Vaishnavas C.A.R.E. seminar

presented by Sangita Devi Dasi and

encouraged by His Holiness Bir Krishna

Goswami for the New Goloka community

in Hillsborough, North Carolina (U.S.A.), 25

enthusiastic devotees met to form four

Vaishnavas Care Teams (V-Care Teams) in

order to assist with emotional, spiritual and

health care needs within our congregation,

including end-of-life

care.

Since our congregational members span several counties, volunteers

eagerly agreed to travel the extra miles in order to assist in any way

required when the need arises. Some examples would be in cases of a

sickness within the family or if there is an unfortunate accident or if a

family member must be hospitalized for some reason and assistance

from the V-Care Team would be required. Volunteers would gladly provide meals, assist

with child care, render personal care, help with housekeeping, run errands, read aloud to

the recovering patient from Srila Prabhupada’s books, chant bhajans with them, answer

emails, or just provide companionship. Even emotional stress in life can sometimes

create a need for a friend or two to visit, bring prasadam from the temple Deities, chant

bhajans together, read together or to simply sit and talk. We all need this from time to

time. In this way, our V-Care volunteers are more than willing to be called upon when

someone needs a visit from a friend in their congregation. In addition, V-Care volunteers

are also trained in basic emotional and spiritual end-of-life care and support for those

patients and families facing a terminal illness. Cooperation and team spirit ran high at

our first Vaishnavas CARE meeting as hands quickly raised to divide into teams in order

to cover all areas of our New Goloka congregation.

Currently, our four teams are divided into the following cities:

Hillsborough/ Hillsborough – Chapel Hill/ Raleigh – Cary – Morrisville/and

Hillsborough-Durham. Plans include presenting another Vaishnavas CARE seminar soon

to our large congregation in the Charlo@e, North Carolina area and assisting them to

form the fifth V-Care Team in this state. We pray for the blessings of His Divine Grace

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-acarya International Society for

Krishna consciousness. and His Holiness Bir Krishna Goswami, Governing Body

Commissioner, New Goloka Community, for all success in serving the servants of Their

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Lordships Sri Sri Radha Golokananada.

Team members include:

Hillsborough: Sangita dasi, Krsna Kumari dasi,

Prafullamukhi dasi, Adideva dasa, Apurva dasa,

Kamalini dasi, Krsnapriya dasi, Yugalarasa dasi,

Indulekha dasi, Sadhvi dasi, Naval Kishori dasi

Hillsborough – Chapel Hill: Lila Shakti dasi, Mahamantra dasa, Gopal das, Bhaktin Cheryl

Hillsborough – Durham: U$ara dasi, Jayasri dasi, Satyavati dasi, Himanshu dasa, Rudrani

dasi

Raleigh – Cary – Morrisville: Drista dasa, Krishna Das, Hrisikesh dasa, Satvhiradha dasi,

Aditya Narayan dasa, Ratna Radhika dasi

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS WHO KINDLY STEPPED FORWARD

TO LEND A HELPING HAND TO THE DEVOTEES IN OUR CONGREGATION!

Following in the footsteps of the Toronto V-Care Team, all volunteers from our New

Goloka Teams will soon become CPR certified. In addition, plans include taking a course in

Emergency First Aid in case there is a need, especially at our temple in Hillsborough where

there are so many visitors and nearby devotee residents.

“With our own elementary school here in New Goloka now, plus a new Sunday School

with 24 children plus many teenagers who regularly a$end our Sunday program and

festivals, we feel we should have many volunteers who are well trained in order to keep

our children safe and well cared for,” Prafullamukhi Dasi stated, the Principal of the New

Goloka Community School. “This will also protect our adult members and visitors as well.

We are all looking forward to taking these two courses and becoming certified very soon.”

In addition, a smaller group of nine

volunteers will be a$ending a more

extensive training program given

by the Duke (University) Hospice

Bereavement Staff so our V-Care

Team can form a much-needed “Grief

Counseling Team” to care for our

temple and congregational members. Several of our V-Care volunteers already have at least

a Master’s level degree in psychology or counseling, although this is not required in order

to take this training course. We look forward to all working together in order to provide the

comfort and healing our temple and congregational members may require during a time of

loss and grief. We are grateful to the staff at Duke (University) Hospice at the Meadowlands

here in Hillsborough for assisting our V-Care team in this way.

There is no temple or community too big or too small to also start a Vaishnavas Care Team.

If you are interested in starting a V-Care Team for your congregation, please contact us at

www.vaishnavascare.org. Please see our article called: “How to Start a V-Care Team in Your

Community” on the tab on the Home page. We will be happy to personally answer any of

your questions either by email, Skype, or phone. Thank you. –Sangita Devi Dasi, RN,

CHPN


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