Shastra Dana
Dear devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
After 9 months of patiently waiting, finally the moment we were praying for arrived. The first batch of Srila Prabhupada’s books were delivered to the headquarters of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) in Pretoria on 9 January 2013. For months the Sastra Dana team had been entangled in the long red-tape of the government department.
In this first batch 41 Medium Sets (738 books) were delivered. From here the books will be recorded as “assets” of the DCS and delivered to 41 prisons across South Africa. Attached are photos of the day.
This has been possible only through the support and donations of kind devotees. The Sastra Dana team would like to sincerely thank all the wonderful devotees who have supported this project, and donated many of these books. We are eternally grateful and we pray that Mahaprabhu and Srila Prabhupada shower Their causeless mercy upon you.
We will soon be delivering many more sets to the DCS, so watch this space!
By Hari Vallabha das
Shastra Dana means "Giving of Shastra in Charity." Through Shastra Dana programs donors contribute for books that are then either given freely to institutions and other appropriate venues or sold at subsidized rates.
To learn more about this program we present a comprehensive manual for the Croatian Shastra Dana program. We also refer readers to www.sastradana.com, the site for the very successful programs in San Diego and Los Angeles.
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