Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

Value of Life, Health and Creation

The Shipping Industry recalls with shame, the Captain of Luxury Liner Costa Concordia, Mr. Francesco Schettino, who abandoned his doomed ship, leaving passengers and crew behind in the sinking wreckage, of the island of Giglio, Italy. Accused of manslaughter, labeled as off his mind and one who sought personal survival over his thousands of passengers, the question arises: How does one Value Life, Health and Care for Creation? On January 25, 2012, Mid DAY reported an article by Samarth Moray, of a young man who lay prone on the railway track at Khadki, Pune, let the bulk and ferocity of a speeding train whiz over him, inches over his body, emerged unscathed, got his friend to catch the bravado on camera and put it on the web. The question once again arise, How does one understand the Value of Life? Does one only understand the Value of Life only when one experiences the threat of losing it? Too often we take our lives for granted. We must learn to make the most of it. Life is too short to be wasted away. India is a Health freak nation now. The Software Industry will soon be overtaken by the Health Care one. The Health Care industry in India is reckoned to be the engine of the economy in the years to come. Health Care Industry in India is worth $17 billion and is anticipated to grow by 13% every year. The health care sector encompasses health care instruments, health care in the retail market, hospitals enrolled to the hospital networks etc. Millions have been spent on medication. Diabetes, Obesity, Cancers, AIDS, Heart Failures are ever on the increase. Many would blame it on changing lifestyles and lesser body resistance. Lipoplasty is perhaps the fastest growing need for surgery, though a mere cosmetic surgery it merely answers the question, How can I look or appear better? Health is more than just appearing better. Health is a quality of life and until one understands the value of life itself, everything else is just cosmetical. Life is sacred!!! This months Diamond Value focuses on SHAPE; it highlights Valuing Health, Life and Care for Creation. Giving SHAPE to oneself and the world is more than just body building! Giving SHAPE is more qualitative than quantitative. Giving SHAPE to oneself is more than just biological. The Human Being is holistic in nature and so health is today understood as a state of physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being. Being HOLISTIC also implies that we are in HARMONY with nature. When we begin to appreciate the interconnectedness of all life, then, we will be able to defend life and live in harmony with nature. No doubt, we need to start now by desirable personal health habits. We need to go beyond too to build environmental concern for our neighbourhoodthough setting hygienic standards for our homes, locality and schools. When we surround ourselves with filth, we invite disease, death and decay. The world is messy enough, lets reduce the mess. As a School Community, invest in the good health of your students, Invite them to care for their personal hygiene and go beyond too, to care for Creation at large. May this Diamond Value SHAPE reface the life and health of every student to be a DIAMOND. Fr. Glenford Lowe SDB

Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

Diamond Value SHAPE: Value of Health, Care for Life and Creation
This months Diamond Value SHAPE focuses on three very important values that we need to cultivate and embrace. Health: is not the absence of any disease or infirmity. It is a state of being fully alive in Body-Mind-Heart-Soul. Health is Wealth. Take care of it and nurture it daily. BE the BEST that you can BE Care for Life: Pope John Paul II spoke of the danger of todays world as promoting a CULTURE OF DEATH. Life is Gods greatest gift and we are all called to defend Life in all its forms. Care for Creation: We have a human, religious and moral duty CARE for CREATION. Going Green can save our planet. We have no other option. Promote Green Values and Green Leadership..

OBJECTIVE of the Diamond Value To care for a healthy BODYMIND-HEARTSOUL

School Environment

Role of the Value Educator

Rationale for Promoting the Value We need to nourish our whole self.. We are more than just physical

Start by promoting JUNK FREE Canteens

Build a Wholesome personality

To celebrate a CULTURE OF LIFE

DRUG FREE Zone

Give respect to gain respect.

All life is connected. All life is sacred.

To be actively involved in CARE FOR CREATION

Participate in GO GREEN Campaigns

Think Green Teach Green Live Green

Our world is bigger than my world. Think Global and Save the World

To help the students to understand better the Diamond Value ISHAPE, please go through the Lesson Plan along with the video clips that has been sent to you as an attachment. Thank you

Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

SHAPE: Self Evaluation

Value Statements and Behaviour 1. I am aware that I am human and that I am not a machine. I value the need to care for my personal health? 2. I am conscious that I become the food that I eat. Junk food makes my die slowly. 3. I take care of my personal hygiene and groom myself well? I value my body. 4. I nourish myself well physically through proper breathing and exercise, healthy foods, sufficient rest and clean environs? 5. Nourishing my mind is important through proper reading habits, logical debates and lateral thinking processes. 6. .My heart is nourished when I love without lust, forgive without revenge, serve without a reward. I value a pure hearted person. 7. I am a sacred being and I need to nourish my soul with a deep union with the Divine through daily prayer and meditation. 8. I care for Creation and respect life in all its forms. Life is a gift from God. 9. When my friends give up on life, I take care to encourage them inspite of all its pains and difficulties. 10. To save the world, we have one option: Go Green. I am a disciple for a Greener World. I Value a Green World for all. 11. I believe that the purpose of Life is to live a well integrated life of Body-Mind-Heart Soul. 12. I know the dangers of Substance Abuse and help my friends to stay away from using drugs. Be a Diamond Valued Student -Cultivate the Values of SHAPE: Health, Care for Life and Creation Always Frequently Sometimes Occasionally Never

Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

The Value of Befriending EXAMS

Sounds crazy How can one befriend Exams? Exams are my worst enemy, said a final year student to me. Its like the final nail on the coffin, the last straw that broke the camels back, the bitter pill that I don't need to swallow, confirmed another. Exams? Thats easy. I copy, I pass. Nothing more, nothing less. Who cares? exploded another. Thats the time the question dawned on me: Can one really befriend Exams? Personally, I too, couldnt face it. To face exams, is to face stress and failure. But, lets look at it differently.Can I befriend Examinations? Do I really want too? Take a different perspective on Exams... Look at it in this way: 1. Education is a lifes long journey and exams are a part of it. You cannot have an enemy for life. Education bring out the best in you, just as your friend does too. 2. If we Value the process of Education, we will embrace the whole package: Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, Enlightenment. Exams were never meant to be a spoiler in this process. Exams are more an ingredient that adds flavor to it. 3. There is no limit to Education. The vast horizon beckons us to expand our knowledge and understanding. Exams are only a window that allows us to see the horizon. Exams are never a block or a wall to prevent us from learning beyond. 4. Celebrate the Wall of Success in your life rather than bemoan the Wall of failure in your life. Let your successes determine your ladder to achieve more, while your failures illumine your path to avoid. 5. Life is more than Exams. Education is not about a percentage on a report card. Great achievers never got bogged down by their poor grades in school. Failure in school or being dismissed because of poor results were opportunities to seek newer avenues with creativity and innovation. 6. Make Exams your friend. No body avoids friends! Spend time with your new found friend called EXAM. Love your Studies, Love your Teachers, Love your entire Educative journey. Exams are not a full stop in the journey of Education. 7. Gift yourself with a new mantra for the next few months: Love my Future, Befriend my Exams 8. Remember: Your results really dont determine who you are. Education is a qualitative process, results are only a quantitative measure. 9. People love you for who you are and not for the results you achieve. 10. EXAM is a short form for EXCELLENT AM I. Befriend it now and discover your excellence. 11. STUDY SMART, don't STUDY HARD. The only secret to being methodic and diligent in your study habits. Glenford Lowe sdb

Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

Path to Success in EXAMS

WHY WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO GIVE YOU A GIFTEDLABEL? YOU CAN GIVE IT TO YOURSELF NOW !!! De-label yourself of all Negative Beliefs

5 BELIEFS OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS

1. FOR THINGS TO CHANGE, I MUST CHANGE 2. THERE IS NO FAILURE, ONLY FEEDBACK 3. IF OTHERS CAN, SO CAN I 4. STUDYING IS FUN, DONT FOOL WITH STUDY. 5. FLEXIBILITY PUTS YOU IN CONTROL

AVEC wishes all the SCC students Gods Blessings all through the Exams...

Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

Congrats: Newspaper Editorial Comp

NAME
SENIORS

SCHOOL St. Marys High School (SSC), Mazagaon St. Annes High School, OrlemMalad St. Annes Girls High School, Dabul

CLASS IXA IXC IXA

POSITION First Second Third

Sameer Parmar Franca DSouza Samiksha Gorde INTERS Calvin Wanhkede Rehbar Zariwala Trupti Kamat JUNIORS Ruhita V. Chowkekar Sarmistha P. Kar Aparna R. Menon

St. Annes High School, OrlemMalad St. Marys High School (SSC), Mazagaon Holy Family High School, Chembur

VIIIE VIIIB VIIIA

First Second Third

St. Louis High School, Dahisar St. Annes Girls High School Holy Family High School, Chembur

VB VIB ViA

First Second Third

PLEASE NOTE
All entries must be on A3 Paper size only. The school must verify the entries with a school stamp and signature.
Best Three in each category to reach the AVEC Office before 25th February 2012. Winners will be declared in the March 2012 issue.

Values for the Yatra

Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC ) E-Letter FEB 2012

Holy CrossJuhu Tara: Students of STD IXXValue Orientation session on Jan. 18, 2012 SCHOOLS VISITED BY AVEC During the Month of January 2012: January 16, 2012 January 17, 2012: January 20, 2012 January 23, 2012 January 24, 2012 January 25, 2012 January 27, 2012 St. Blaise, Amboli / St. ArnoldsAndheri St. Elias / Durello Convent / Mount Marys / St. AloysiusBandra OLPHChembur / Padua High SchoolMankhurd St. Joseph's Colaba / St. Joseph'sAgripada / St. IgnatiusJacobs Circle Our Lady of FatimaBadlapur / Little FlowerThane/ St. Marys & St. PiusMulund OLGCSion / Fatima High SchoolSweri / Sacred HeartWorli Regina PacisByculla / St. TeresasGirguam

AVEC will be visiting the remaining schools/ colleges During the month of February 2012 To follow up the Value Education Program. Schools that would like the AVEC to animate Teacher/ Student Orientation Programs are invited to call the office and make the necessary bookings. Thank You
AVEC E-Letter Values for the Yatra is an initiative to provide Animation Resources for Teachers involved in Value Education in the ABE schools/ Jr. Colleges . Values for the Yatra is published every month and is for private circulation. Your valuable suggestions are most welcome to assist us in making Values for the Yatra a useful tool of animation and bonding among the Management, teachers and students of the ABE schools in Mumbai. CONTACT: Fr. Glenford Lowe, SDB / Michelle DSouza / Rochwyn Fernandes / Margaret Dubey / Sr. Vera Almeida AVECDon Bosco Youth Services, Matunga 400019 , MUMBAI Ph: 24154477 e-mail: avecmatunga@gmail.com blog: avecmumbaidbys.blogspot.com