By Sandipani Muni Krsna das
The Hare Krishna Movement has two types of reaching out to people, “outreach” which is bringing in new students and practitioners who have no background in Krishna consoiuness, but another type is “in-reach” which is finding ways to inspire, engage and train the next generation by reaching out to youth who are born in the movement or have participated in the movement from their childhood.
One of the most effective programmes for the youth are ISKCON Bus Tours led by two senior leaders Manorama das and Jay Shri Radhe dasi, regularly holding bus tours for around 30 years in North America, the Caribbean and occasionally in Europe. They have also engaged and trained other youth to take up this service, and other bus tours have been led by youth.
This year Ekavarna das, a brahmacari from London had a dream to do one of these programmes in the UK as they had not been done for around 3 decades, since the time of the late, Tribhuvanatha Prabhu (of the leading figures in the UK yatra since the 70s). So together with Sandipani Muni Krsna das they organized a 3 week summer youth trip all over the UK. Taking up 5 more staff members from the USA and Sweden, and 30 youth, the bus tour travelled all around the country, from London to the North of Scotland and many places in between. Instead of traditional bus tours with one big bus this year, it was two 17-seater minivans which were much more practical.
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