Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Good Health Lesson 9; Toxic Wastes and Food Handling



Precautions
Never handle toxic wastes and food at the same time.
Never use toxic waste containers for food preparations, and never use food containers for toxic wastes.
Keep toxic products separately from your food stores, safely locked away from the foodstuffs.
Empty toxic containers should never be used for household purposes.



If skin comes into contact with toxic products always wash contacted area (that is, hands, arms or the body) with large amounts of water and soap.
See your doctor at the earliest opportunity.
Never ever allow toxic products to splash into the eyes, they can cause blindness.
See link at end of lesson for guidance as to how to deal with a chemical eye splash.
Wash your hands regularly with soap and water to prevent food becoming contaminated.







Do not burn toxic products or wastes
This spreads the chemicals through smoke and ash.
Do not dispose of toxic wastes down latrines or in water areas.






Disposal of Wastes
Cleanliness is very important in order to prevent many diseases.
This means keeping the person clean (personal hygiene), and keeping the home and village clean (sanitation) by keeping places used by the public, free of waste.
Waste consists of;
1) Dry refuse - tins, papers, household rubbish, boxes
2) Human waste - stools, urine and other discharges
3) Toxic waste - such as containers which previously contained chemicals
See link at end of lesson for guidance as to how to dispose of trash safely
Chemical splash in the eye - First Aid
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-eye-emergency/FA00041
Getting rid of trash safely
http://en.hesperian.org/hhg/A_Community_Guide_to_Environmental_Health:Getting_Rid_of_Trash_Safely
With thanks to www.mayoclinic.com and en.hesperian.org
Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Blessed Light - Happy Christmas and a Joyous New Year

Blessed Light - Photograph by Lumiere Volunteer Britain
for use copyright free for any worthy purpose

 
To all Lumiere Charity readers and supporters,
 
Happy Christmas filled with Blessed Light to all,
 
 and a Joyous New Year.

Friday, December 6, 2013

A Candle has been Lit by Lumiere in Remembrance of His Excellency Nelson Mandela


A Candle has been lit by Lumiere in Remembrance of 
His Excellency Nelson Mandela.
Our sincere condolences to bereaved family and friends.

Be an Angel of Mercy this Christmas

Squatter Camp Puppy - dearly loved!


Puppies mistreated.
Animals burned to death.
Pregnant animals executed.
Animals left to shiver in the icy cold.

The way we treat our most vulnerable in our society is a sure indicator of who we are.
Let's be angels of Mercy this Christmas.
A sensible way to prevent animal illness, frailty and death is to keep them warm in the cold weather.
Jesus Christ said 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.'
It is convenient to believe that only human beings have the right to this humane commandment.
And yet the Lord of All was born in a stable, the first witnesses to the wonder of His Birth being the humble species which share our world with us - the animals.
Why did God choose these first witnesses besides Joseph and Mary?
Surely to show us the way to appreciate these wonders of our creation.

Let us help the vulnerable and helpless with the gift of shelter.
Peta provides sturdy, strawfilled doghouses each year and delivers them to dogs in need.
See Peta's wonderful work at
http://www.peta.org/videos/please-be-an-angel-for-a-cold-lonely-dog-this-winter/

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Lumiere Charity remembers the Philippines



A Candle has been lit by Lumiere in remembrance 
of all who have suffered and died in the
Philippines, and for all those
suffering and bereaved.

In the spirit of Lumiere, is there anything you
can do to help?

Please see SOS Children's Villages Appeal

To Donate to SOS Children's Villages

Doctors Without Borders in Philippines 

List of  Relief Centers, Donations Drop Offs, Banks

Help Animals in the Philippines 

To Donate to PAWS - helping Animals in the Philippines

Charity:Water - Give the Gift that Keeps on Giving - Pure Water, New Life


BioSand Filter
This holiday season why not consider giving a gift that keeps on giving - pure water and new life. 
It's wrapped in concrete, filled with sand, and runs on bacteria.
It's the BioSand Filter. 

Under age old biology, the BioSand Filter kills 99 % of bacteria in the dirty water poured through it.
Cambodia is filled with water, but it isn't always safe to drink. 
The BioSand Filter is a simple, low-cost solution that cleans water quickly.
You can help Charity: Water with their dedicated work by 
- Starting a Campaign for Cambodia 
- Donating towards bringing clean water to a family in Cambodia 
- Helping to fund BioSand Filters

How BioSand Filters are Built
Each family builds their own BioSand Filter with partner support.
Families contribute a small amount of their own money towards the building materials, attend a hygiene training class and build their own filter under the supervision of local masons.

Why not help?
Why not help others to help themselves?
See
http://www.charitywater.org/cambodia/?utm_source=responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_content=launch&utm_campaign=holidays

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Lumiere English Academy; a Basic Grammar - Afterword by Dr Luky Whittle




Lumiere English academy
A Basic Grammar
Afterword

Congratulations to all who completed "A Basic Grammar, Comprehension Guide and Letter Writer for Second Language
Students."

Please note that a further comprehensive book on English is in
the pipeline, and, upon completion, will be posted in serialised
form on Lumiere Charity Blog.

It is hoped that "A Basic Grammar" will become available in PDF
format and Podcast.
We will inform you in this regard as soon as these formats have
been completed.

Catherine Nicolette and I trust and hope you enjoyed your studies.

Luky
7 October 2013
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
South Africa

Lumiere English Academy; Basic Grammar Lesson 28 Comprehension Sample Answers to Lesson 27




Lumiere English academy
A Basic Grammar
Lesson 28
Comprehension Sample Answers

EXERCISE

1. Do you think the writer is being truthful when she says she is not interested in

having a good reputation? If she is not, why would she express the contrary?

The writer is not truthful when she says she is not interested in having a good

reputation. 


She expresses the contrary because she is trying to pretend to herself


that the emotional pain she suffered at the injustice of the unmerited slur on her


character did not affect her.

2. Why would her easy-going father have been so unusually firm about the attack

on her?

Her easy-going father would have been so unusually firm about the attack on her,

because  he is a man of integrity, who demands that his children be treated with

integrity.

3. Would you rather work for the librarian than for Miss Mark's supervisor? See blog 

post http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2013/10/lumiere-english-academy-basic-grammar_3900.html

Why or why not?

I would rather work for the librarian than for Miss Mark's supervisor.


The reason is  because the librarian was truly trying to be fair to all his staff, 


not only to the one who had been insulted, whereas Miss Mark's supervisor spoke

disrespectfully of his staff.

4. Why do you think the story is titled: "Storm in a teacup"?

I think the story is titled "Storm in a teacup" because the phrase means much ado

about nothing, and is a pun on the fact that the former 'enemy' ended up reading the 

writer's future from tealeaves.

5. Why was the librarian Solomon-like? 

To what story in the Bible does this refer?

The librarian was Solomon-like because he was impartially fair to both women, 

solving the dilemma with no loss of dignity on either woman's side.

The story in the Bible to which this refers is where Solomon made a decision


between two women regarding an infant both claimed for her own.

6. What does the librarian's refusal to take sides say of the man as a supervisor?

The librarian's refusal to take sides shows that he had equal respect for both

women.




Dr Luky Whittle

Lumiere English Academy; Basic Grammar Lesson 27 Comprehension




Lumiere English academy
A Basic Grammar
Lesson 27
COMPREHENSION

You'll make mistakes no power can mend
Unless you strive to comprehend


Please read the following passage, trying to understand (comprehend)
the contents of the passage.
Then answer the questions in the Exercise.

Remember there is no single correct answer. 
Any of a number of answers may be correct, if they demonstrate
that you comprehend (understand) the passage.

After you have answered the questions, please find sample answers
available in the next blog post.

STORM IN A TEACUP
As a first generation immigrant into South Africa, I had a high
regard for the value of a good reputation in my youth.
In middle age, however, I discovered for myself that you cannot
defend yourself against the malice of a lying tongue.

It was my father who inculcated my strong regard for a good
reputation.
Newly matriculated and all of sixteen years old, I was working
in a municipal library.
On Wednesdays and Fridays I had the afternoon off, and worked
from five to eight in the evenings instead.
On those nights, I'd have coffee in a cafè until nine when the bus
left the terminus.
At a bus stop around the corner from our street, my father would
be waiting. 
He'd put me on the steel bar of his bike and ride me home.

The colleague with whom I worked evening duty wanted to catch
the bus to her suburb, which left at eight exactly.
The terminus adjoining the library, she suggested she leave five
minutes earlier, leaving me to lock up with the handyman.
My father objected, and suggested I change partners with someone
who owned a car, so that we could leave together.
He didn't mind if I had coffee in a cafè in a brightly lit street but
wanted me to have a fellow assistant with me in the library until
it was locked up.

With trepidation I informed the colleague concerned of my dad's
comments next morning at teatime.
Despite my yearning to be be accepted as part of the team, I had
been sensing a deep hostility from the group of older colleagues, 
as they always seemed to go silent when I entered the staffroom.
I felt that if I stepped out of line in the slightest degree, their 
dislike for me would come to the surface.
And I was too young and respectful of adults to believe that I could
handle open animosity.

My fears were well founded.
My colleague went blood red and venomously sputtered, 
"I'm amazed at the concern of your dad, since he seems to have no
problem with you roaming the streets at night."
Another colleague in her fifties, daggers in her eyes, joined the fray:
"That's right. You're a bad girl," she said.
I gathered the shreds of my dignity around me.
"I'm not," I stammered.

That night I told my father, that most inoffensive of men.
You could tell him anything in the world.
He never seemed to get shocked or angry the way my mother would.
I needed the reassurance of his leavening humour but that time it
was not forthcoming.
His eyes steely, he told me to see the boss the next day to ask him
to get the colleague to explain her remark.
"The only thing we immigrants possess in this country is our
reputation.
Take that away from us and we're left destitute."
I always think of these words when I hear the Shakespearean
reference to the stealing of a purse.

The funny thing about the anger of a patient man is that it really
spurs the recipient on to action, far more than one who is always
cross anyway.
So the next morning found me in my elderly boss's office.
After my father he was my favourite man.
Having heard my account of the incident, he called in my 
colleague and made me repeat it in front of her.

When I mentioned the attack on my alleged roaming of the streets,
she denied it to my face, no doubt aware that the six people present
when she made it would back up her story rather than mine.
The boss took no sides but told us to "kiss and make up."
When we left the office, she whispered:
"I'll get you back, Miss!
Just you wait and see.
I'm going to tell the librarian you never charge the Dutch immigrants
any fines."

There she was probably quite right.
Not only I, but she herself and the majority of our mutual
colleagues gave those whose books were overdue a hefty reduction
when they seemed short of funds.
(Twenty years later I visited the town again and found that many of
them were now driving BMW's.)

While my colleague was still nursing her wounded spirits, our
Solomon-like librarian phoned the town clerk and arranged that
the five to eight evening bus be rescheduled to take in my suburb
as well as my colleague's, and that the departure time be put on
ten minutes.
Then we were all happy and there were no repercussions.

Ironically, she and the others and I became firm friends and we all
cried when I left the library three years later.
She used to tell my future from leaves left in my teacup and predict
a wonderfully romantic life for me.
Although this looking into the future conflicts with my religious
principles, I felt in this case that it marked a fitting end to what
amounted to little more than a storm in a teacup.

Looking back today, I no longer agree with my dad that reputation
is all-important, for in regarding it so one renders oneself too
vulnerable to the malice of one's detractors.
Though the incident did teach me that it may be healthy for all
concerned on occasion to drop the mask and clear the air, I cannot
feel that it really matters what people think or say of you, for they
usually get the wrong end of the stick anyway.
In the end the only thing that really counts is what God knows of you.

EXERCISE
1. Do you think the writer is being truthful when she says she is not
    interested in having a good reputation?
    If she is not, why would she express the contrary?
    ........................................................................................................
    ........................................................................................................
2. Why would her easy-going father have been so unusually firm
    about the attack on her?
    ........................................................................................................
    ........................................................................................................
3. Would you rather work for the librarian than for Miss Mark's
    supervisor?
    Refer to 
    ........................................................................................................
    ........................................................................................................
4. Why do you think the story is titled; "Storm in a teacup?"
    ........................................................................................................
    ........................................................................................................
5. Why was the librarian Solomon-like?
    To what story in the Bible does this refer?
    ........................................................................................................
    ........................................................................................................
6. What does the librarian's refusal to take sides say of the man as a
    supervisor?
    ........................................................................................................
    ........................................................................................................

Dr Luky Whittle

Good Shepherd Church Seminary; Module 15 Following Christ




Yeshu'a Bar-Yosef - Jesus Son of Joseph
GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH SEMINARY 
MODULE 15
FOLLOWING CHRIST

OBJECTIVES; 
By the end of this Module you should;
1. Be able to reflect on the Call to Follow Jesus
2. Know that our life's decisions make an impact on our eternal future
3. Know what criteria Jesus used when choosing His disciples
4. Know that, as the disciples were called in Jesus' time, we too are called to     follow Him
5. Be able to complete the Reflection Assignment for your own personal spiritual
growth

CONTENTS;
1. Our Life's Greatest Decision
2. The Call to Follow Jesus
3. The First Disciples
4. Assignment (for personal reflection only)

1. OUR LIFE'S GREATEST DECISION; 

Our life's greatest decision is our choice as to where we want to live our eternal life after human death.
We, as humanity, have been invited through God's Words and Inspiration in the Old Testament and New Testament to spend our eternal life in the joy of the company of God, our Creator, and Jesus Christ His Son.

Our whole life's purpose is to discover ourselves - who we are, what we want from life, and what our eternal destiny will be.
Each one of us was created personally by God, from Whose Hand our soul is infused into our beginning body at conception.
Each one of us is created personally by the Hand of God for a reason - a Divine purpose.
Our lives are not accidents or fate.
God has a personal plan for each of us.

2. THE CALL TO FOLLOW JESUS;
Jesus invited disciples to come and follow Him at the very outset of His Ministry. 
Jesus invited both men and women to witness to Him.
Jesus called people from all walks of life to be His disciples.
He called Matthew from his work as tax collector, 
"As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. 
'Follow Me,' He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him."
(The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 9 verse 9).

Jesus inspired the woman at the well as missionary preacher, to give the news that He is the Messiah .

The woman said, "I know that Messiah"(called Christ) "is coming.
When He comes, He will explain everything to us."
Then Jesus declared, "I Who speak to you am He."
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman.
But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
"Come, see a man Who told me everything I ever did.
Could this be the Christ?" a
They came out of the town and made their way toward Him . . . 
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony.'
(The Gospel of John, Chapter 4, verses 25 to 30 and verse 39.)

3. THE FIRST DISCIPLES
Jesus' disciples were exceptional in their ordinariness.
The first disciples Jesus invited were Simon and his brother Andrew, and the two brothers James and John
At the time of their call they were busy plying their family's trade - fishing.
They were "unschooled, ordinary men" 
(Acts of the Apostles Chapter 3, verse 13).
Jesus called them -and others like them - to follow Him and be His disciples.
As He is calling us today.

It has been said that Jesus doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
Jesus had confidence in His first disciples, as He has confidence in us.
Jesus is the One Who qualified them by teaching them by word and example, and He qualifies us as we reflect and try to live His Teachings as laid out in the Gospels.
Jesus' invitation to the first disciples led to them learning at the Feet of Jesus.
His Words, His Teaching, His example of life was the perfect blueprint for them to follow - as it is for us today.
Jesus called his first disciples to follow Him, to become like Him and to do the things He did - bring the message of Mercy, Forgiveness and God's Love to the World.
He asks the same of us.

So, as called priests and ordained, it is important for us to continue our lifelong study of the Life of Jesus and His Teachings.
By attempting to live the guidance in the Gospels, and studying at Seminary and further courses within our budget, living area and scope, we will continue to grow as disciples of Christ.
True disciples of Christ preach by their words, but preach more by example.

4. ASSIGNMENT;
Reflect on your own personal call from Jesus Christ to follow Him.
1. What is the ministry to which Jesus is calling you?
2. How can you go about preparing yourself to do this ministry?
3. What do Jesus' words, "Follow Me" mean to you personally?
You may wish to write the answers down in a spiritual journal for yourself.
It is helpful to refer to them later, as you grow in your ministry and following of Jesus.
However, this is not essential.
The time spent in reflection and prayer is the most important purpose of the Assignment. 
 
a - Or Messiah