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Bringing Awareness to the Suffering of Animals

We at DVA are sending you Metta and hope that you are all safe and healthy during these challenging times

In this issue:
  1. Sri Lanka Veterinary Project with Dr. Chamith Nanayakkara
  2. DVA Speakers Series with Dr. Allan Kornberg, MD, MBA
  3. Updates on DVA Engaging US Centers to Encourage Diet Change

Sri Lanka Veterinary Project:

Dharma Voices for Animals is conducting a Veterinary Care Project specially dedicated for animals live in temples around the country. Most of the times village temples provide shelter to many animals those who have been abandoned by the owners or who roam around helplessly looking for food and shelter. That's why we designed this project to support such temples and its animals.

Led by the venerable Dr. Chamith Nanayakkara, the DVA Veterinary Project has been traveling to temples all over Sri Lanka, providing free medical care for all of the animals that have been taken in by the Monks.

DVA Veterinary Project for Animals in Temples

Our purpose to conduct our veterinary clinic not only is to help animals live in temples, but also to show our gratitude to the kind monks who have given these animals a chance to live in their temples peacefully. 🙏

"Love" and "Kindness" are the most valuable gifts we can give to someone. DVA is always trying it's best to ensure that all animals are being loved and well taken care of, protecting their right to live. 🙏

Towards a Compassionate World

DVA Speakers Series Ep. 4:

You are invited to join us on Saturday, December 12th, at 9:00 am Pacific, for the fourth episode of the DVA Speaker Series with our special guest, DVA Board Treasurer, Dr. Allan Kornberg, MD, MBA.

Join us on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/92746647912 or on FaceBook Live or on YouTube Live no registration is required.

DVA Speaker Series Ep. 4: In Conversation with Dr. Allan Kornberg
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Engaging US Centers to Encourage Diet Change:

As we pick up our efforts to encourage the serving of more compassionate food at some of the major US Buddhist Centers, we want to acknowledge those volunteers who have been doing great work.

  • DVA’s US Chapter Ambassador, Andrew Bear, has been working with 25 centers in northern California to encourage diet change.
  • Dean Rockwell, a DVA volunteer from San Diego, has been instrumental in helping to create a resource to track the details about these centers with all kinds of useful information.
  • Adam Burke of Phoenix, Arizona recently succeeded in moving the Garchen Institute, a Dharma Center in Chino Valley, Arizona, USA, to follow their motto (For the benefit of all sentient beings) and offer only vegetarian meals on a seven-day retreat, when he told the registrar that he doesn’t attend retreats when animal flesh is served.
  • Victoria Foote-Blackman is also helping to identify the food served at various Buddhist centers.

Our team of advocates also includes prominent US-based Dharma teachers Tara Brach and Thanissara. We want to express our deepest gratitude to all these champions for animals!

If you know of a center that you would like us to start a conversation with, please reply to this email and let us know.

DVA Chapter Ambassador, Andrew Bear

The GIFT you make today will support DVA’s important work for diet change at US Centers, Sri Lankan temples, Thai Wats, and Vietnamese Pagodas to save the lives of millions, perhaps billions of animals. Support for our work is especially important today now that an extremely generous supporter has offered to match all donations until the end of the year. 
 
But please hurry. Just last week, the Director of DVA’s Vietnam Project closed a dog meat restaurant in Hanoi. Every day more chickens, pigs, and even dogs are eaten in Buddhist countries around the world. We need your help to stop it.

No gift is too small

Please also consider a monthly gift, which will provide a consistent stream of revenue that allows us to best plan our projects. New monthly gifts will also be matched, doubling your impact.

The GIFT you make today will empower DVA to continue to develop innovative projects and actions to spread our message of a compassionate diet around the globe. For example, a $60 gift with our match until the end of this year will make available $120 which pays for a three-hour plant-based cooking classes for the kitchen staff at one of the large temples in Thailand. As we move these temples towards serving plant-based food, the lives of countless, precious animals will be saved and a shining example will be set for the 65 million Buddhists in that country.

With your generous gift we will together save the lives of countless, precious animals.

Imagine a world in which we do not consider animals as food, a world in which Buddhist communities around the world are setting a shining example. Make your GIFT to DVA now so you can be part of this achievement.

But we need your financial support to make this happen

The matched GIFT you make today will go a long way to support DVA’s work in the US, Europe, South America, our countrywide Projects in the Buddhist countries of Sri Lanka and Vietnam, and our advocacy in the rest of the Buddhist world. By extending the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and non-harming to ALL sentient beings, together we can protect the lives of millions, perhaps billions, of animals.

Thank you for your generous support for the work of DVA!

The matched GIFT you make today will go a long way to support DVA’s work in the US, Europe, South America, our countrywide Projects in the Buddhist countries of Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, and our advocacy in the rest of the Buddhist world. By extending the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and non-harming to ALL sentient beings, together we can protect the lives of millions, perhaps billions, of animals.

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