Athens, Greece is now hosting several refugee camps due to the humanitarian crisis caused by people fleeing the violence and poverty of their homelands in Africa and the Middle East. For the last two and a half months, Vibrionics Practitioners ^{01768, 03118, 03107, 01379} have been offering their services in these camps. A Sai sister, a homoeopath and acupuncturist, worked alongside us to treat the many refugees. We wish to share some of their experiences.

The seva began on 12 Dec 2015 and they have so far served 135 patients during their 10 visits to two different Athenian locations. The practitioners offer treatment, mostly for major trauma and the effects of adverse and arduous traveling conditions. Many refugees suffered colds and flu from being forced into the sea off Turkey’s shores on their way to Greece. In order to safely cross the land-locked border, many had suffered muscular skeletal issues from carrying their children over mountains for more than a month. Those served responded favourably to their treatment, but follow up was impossible as the majority of them immediately continued their journey into Europe. 

According to the practitioners, “Most gratifying for us was the patients’ obvious relief and appreciation for our willingness to listen and engage in conversation, offering kind words along with our remedies. We saw that our kindness and love brought smiles and hopefulness to many strained faces. 

We have been blessed to come across some very kind western medicine practitioners during our seva. Most of them, especially the doctors, have been very positive about our treatments. There was a nurse who at some point expressed doubts about our work but after seeing the love that was being offered to everyone at the medical camp, her opinion changed. Both disciplines, allopathic and vibrionics¸ were brought together by the urgent need of the traveling refugees as well as everyone’s eagerness to help in whatever way possible. We see the helping hand of our dearest Sai’s influence at work, what He called ‘Unity in Diversity’.

We are finding this seva to be a personally transformative process that fills us with bliss as we continue to serve our troubled refugee siblings. We are happily offering service wherever and whenever needed.” The influx of refugees continues and so does our work.

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Recognition for Administrative Service

Practitioner ^02868…USA was certified as a vibrionics practitioner in October 2012, and a senior practitioner in September 2015. Seeing immense potential in seamless interactive digital access to our newsletters, he came forward and took charge of uploading newsletters onto our website with advanced search/query functionality. This is a very important role as it involves not only individually posting of the various parts of a newsletter but also formatting and tagging them. He is also responsible for overseeing that the newsletters are accessible and searchable in 12 different languages. He is supported by a team of six dedicated practitioners who assist him with uploading of newsletter in other languages. We salute him and his team for their silent work for the benefit of thousands of readers around the world.

Practitioner ^{11964…India} was introduced to vibrionics on New Year’s day of 2014. Quickly, he advanced to becoming a vibrionics practitioner. So great was his enthusiasm and dedication to vibrionics that he became a senior practitioner after just one year of his practice. Immediately afterwards, he participated in writing/editing of case histories. Seeing significant opportunity in implementing world-class standards in the vibrionics organisation, he has recently taken complete charge of applications for membership of International Association of Sai Vibrionics Practitioners (IASVP). He is assisted in this work by two highly dedicated senior Practitioners ^{11271 & 11231…India} who are responsible for production and dispatch of ID cards. We express our recognition for this very important work that they are doing.

Om Sai Ram