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Almvik: An Alternative Set-up for living a Krishna conscious life

Assets for preaching Assets for sustainability Plans for increase of sustainability O bstacles. Almvik: An Alternative Set-up for living a Krishna conscious life.

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Almvik: An Alternative Set-up for living a Krishna conscious life

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  1. Assets for preaching Assets for sustainability Plans for increase of sustainability Obstacles Almvik: An Alternative Set-upfor living a Krishna conscious life

  2. Vision: Almvik is a village, a living example of the teachings of Srila Prabhupada(Almvik är ett samhälle som är ett levande exempel på Srila Prabhupadas undervisning)------------------------------------------------------------------Present assets in terms of preaching

  3. Sri SriPanca-tattva A bigtemplebuilding; templeroom, Tulasiroom, kitchen, prasadamroom, classrooms for gurukula, asramas, preachingrooms, library, office, renovatedbathroom

  4. SrilaPrabhupada Sri Krishna’s pure devotee.

  5. The devotees We have 34 adult devotees and 27 children at the present. Our preaching is mainly by giving an example of living a Krishna conscious life with Sri Sri Panca-tattva and Srila Prabhupada in the center.

  6. The cows Wehave 8 cows and 4 oxen. 4 of the cowsdid not havecalfyet. At mostwehad 33 cows and oxen.

  7. Almost all grhastasgrowsomevegetables.

  8. Bakery Srivatsamataji has beenbakingbreadsince 15 years. Shesells it to ordinary shops also. Herbread is wellknown in our area.

  9. Ateljé Janmanalayaprabhu is a Prabhupadadisciple who is painting on stoneslabsextremelyrealisticnaturemotives. Here with somevisitors. He has alsopaintedquitesome Krishna consciouspicures and hehopeshewillhave time for more of that in the future.

  10. Second hand. Recentlysellingoff second hand goods has been a goodway to attractneighbours and others.

  11. Steady Sunday feast. Every Sunday since 1981.

  12. The Panca-tattvaroom Tworooms for seminars, media and meetings.

  13. Rootcellar for vegetables. To the left of the kirtan party

  14. Smita Krishna Swami has his baseheresinceend of 80’s. Mukundaprabhu has beendoingschoolprograms the last 25 years and he is maintaining his family with this. Base for outreachpreaching.

  15. Sawmill. A sawmillwhichcansupplybuilding material of all sorts. Yogindraprabhu a Prabhupadadiscipleknowshow to handle it.

  16. Beautiful surroundings. Almvik is situatednear a lake and surrounded by fields for agriculture and forrests. It’s 9 kilometres to the nearesttown Järna.

  17. Nataraja prabhu and tribangasundara prabhu have each a comstruction company

  18. Present assets in terms of sustainability: An economicalstructurewhereeveryfamily has it’sowneconomy and everybodysharescommonexpenses. Everyadult is paying 1150 SEK/month There is a certain freedom for the grhastaswhichtheyneed and appreciate. 20 ha cultivating land = 49 acres 100 ha forest = 247 acres Building material and firewood Cows and oxen A big barn, places for 35 cows A sawmill Sewage ponds Rootcellar Almvik is payed

  19. Future plans for sustainability 1. We are applying for having a statesupportedschoolagain 2. Increase the growing of vegetables 3. Wind power for electricity? 4. Betterfireplace 5. Betterinsulation in the bigbuilding 6. Morehouses for families to moveinto

  20. OBSTACLES Ifwedo not get permission for the school 2. Lackingmanpower and funds to improvethings 3. Weaksadhana, temple program not wellattended

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