U3A members have participated RUN FOR HEART under the leadership of Prof. T.M. Dak Secretary General.
World Heart Day-2009 was celebrated on 27.09.09 at Udaipur. RUN FOR HEART was organised by famous Cancer Specialist American Hospital, Udaipur. Members and family members of U3A Udaipur participated in the RUN for Heart. Miss Anchal Dhakar 8 years old grand daughter of U3A member Mr. R.S. Dhakar was first in children group and was awarded by Dr. Kirti Jain Chairman GBH American Hospital.

BEWARE: Around Rs 1,69,000 crore of fake money is in the system. And it's growing.

Last month when Maharashtra Crime Branch and Anti-terrorism Squad sleuths caught six persons with counterfeit currency worth over Rs 9 lakh, they themselves couldn't make out the difference between the fake and genuine notes. "They have 95% features of genuine notes," says an official. The provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) have been invoked -- for the first time against fake currency. For more details and how to check, clickon http://ibnlive.in.com/news/fake-rs-1000-notes-in-circulation-says-rbi/95551-7.html

From A K Malhotra, Bhanava U3A Lucknow. .
It is proposed to bring out special issue of our Quarterly magazine ' Bhavana sandesh' in January 2010 to mark ' World U3A conference 2010" .

The issue will carry articles on various issues pertaining to Senior Citizens, as well as role of U3A's in solving problems being faced by Elders.

On 27th to 29th August 2009 the Federation of Senior Citizens forums of Karnataka organized a 3-day training program for capacity building of people who are already managing OAH (Old Age Homes) and those who wish to start a OAH. Currently there is no uniform code that guides management of OAH and very often people do get exploited in such homes.

Dr. Indira Jai Prakash conducted two sessions in which the background to the issue was discussed.
Dr. Satyaprasad, spoke on common physical and mental health problems
Dr. Keshav Kumar, Asst. Professor, NIMHANS spoke on dementia
Dr. Shailaja Shastri, conducted a session on simple behavioural methods for managers
Dr. Indira Jai Prakash gave a lecture on Geriatric counseling
Mr. Govindaraju a retired district judge enlightened the audience with legal advice
Dr. Sreenivas, Dept of Psychology, Bangalore University gave a talk on Productive aging
Dr. Indira Jai Prakash spoke on sources of stress for Managers and how to handle it effectively.

Planning ahead - Singapore in 2011!
With so many International delegates joining our 2010 World Conference and many more to come, already we are looking beyond to the next one - which will be hosted by SACE-U3A in 2011.

Initial discussions took place in Singapore in September - left are Thomas Kuan (President of Singapore Association for Continuing Education), Dr John Collins (Canada) , Dr R N Kapoor (ISU3A India) and they were joined from Hyderabad by tele-conference and SKYPE by Tom Holloway (World U3A).

SILVER INNINGS report a ‘Women and Retirement Planning’ seminar in Mumbai
Women for Good Governance cordially invites you to attend a very informative seminar on ‘Women and Retirement Planning’ On Friday 2nd October 2009 from 10 am to 5.40 pm at All India Local Self Government, Juhu Lane, Andheri (W), Mumbai.

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