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Bhaktivedanta College • CPO – Child Protection Seminar Offered at Bhaktivedanta College

CPO – Child Protection Seminar Offered at Bhaktivedanta College

May 15, 2011
by Veni Madhava das
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cpoPlace: Bhaktivedanta College, Radhadesh
Dates: 30 June – 2 July (3 days)
Price: € 55 (seminar fee, accommodation and prasadam)
Booking link: Online form
Contact: College@pamho.net

champakalataThe seminar is taught by Champakala Devi Dasi who is the Director of the ISKCON Central Office of Child Protection. Champakalata Devi Dasi received her law degree in 1992, and has been a practicing attorney in criminal law, real estate law, and labor law. She is a Presiding Officer for the Department of Labor of South Africa and helps arbitrate labor disputes and compensation claims. She also has a post-graduate degree in Education and is a certified teacher. In her devotional career, she has served as Head of Legal Affairs as well as Communications Director for ISKCON Durban. Her twenty years of communications and public relations experience will be particularly helpful in her new position, as will her legal and teaching background. She has been especially active with child protection in South Africa, and is head of the Durban Child Protection Team. Champakalata devi dasi, who resides in Durban, South Africa, is an initiated disciple of His Holiness Indradyumna Swami. She comes from a long line of Vaisnavas, culminating in her parents taking initiation as ISKCON devotees thirty years ago when she was a child. She is married to Shakshi Gopal Das, who is a disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami, and they have a nine-year-old daughter.

Invitation letter by Yadunandana Swami:Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

During our last ELM conference a presentation was made on Child Protection in regard to the book “My Karma, My Fault”  published by an European ex-gurukuli, who was physically, psychological, and sexually abused in ISKCON schools and communities.

During this discussion, it was emphasized the importance of creating awareness and educating leaders, teachers, community members, parents, and children on this matter, in order to prevent future cases of abuse to the best of our ability. As the saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

In order to facilitate this training, Champakalata Devi Dasi, the Director of ISKCON Child Protection Office, is scheduled to provide training in Sweden (25 to 28 June) and at Bhaktivedanta College, Radhadesh (30 June to 2 of July). Please take the opportunity to send as many concerned representatives of your yatras as possible to one of these training seminars. Particularly, child protection team members, children and parents’ educators, community leaders, and some leading parents should be encouraged to attend, in order to get the most of Champakalata DD´s visit.

Thank you. Hare Krishna.

Your humble servant,
Yadunandana Swami
(ISKCON European Minister for Educational Development )

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