Namaste , As a founder and director of Bharat Heritage Organization (BHO) a 501(3c) non profit organization, I Ramya Ranganathan Srinivas invite all the families of AZ and other states of USA for a Bharat Heritage Yatra – A Heritage Tour of Temples of USA to our next generation. A noble and one of a kind initiative of BHO to protect, propagate and promote our heritage to our next generation of Indian Diaspora! For program overview, please watch below video.
BHO recognizes every temple is unique and the offering they have towards the community is diverse yet, they all exemplify unity in diversity in propagating our Sanatana Dharma, traditions and cultural value chains which are the core essence of our Bharat Heritage. Through this BHO Heritage Yatra program, We work with the temples of USA to build a “custom crafted” tour that gives an educative and enriching experience of our bharat culture and tradition, yet in a fun filled way to our future generation kids and youth.
BHO showcases the USA temple tour offerings under one unified portal bhogl.org/heritage-yatra for the community to get a Birdseye view of the various tours and help facilitate the tours as per the convenience and availability of the tourists.
This program launched in 2021 has been prototyped with raving success in the state of AZ and looking forward into the future, we seek the help of our community at large to scale this program across all states of USA.
This unique program will have a huge positive impact on the kids to appreciate the rich culture and traditions of our Bharat. Starting this summer, Kids can enjoy the tour to temples of USA learning about the Hindu gods, festivals, traditions of our Bharat.
To give you a glimpse, we had conducted the tour to the following temples of AZ in 2022 and it was a raving success! Kids had a blast! For the Heritage Yatra Videos please click here.
Maha Ganapathi Temple of AZ tour to learn about the Primordial God Ganesha, and experiencing Ganesha Chaturthi festival.
Shridi Saibaba Temple of AZ tour to enlighten us on significance of Guru and experience Guru Poornima festival.
Sri Venkata Krishna Kshetra Temple of AZ tour to learn about the traditions of visiting the temple, significance of keeping Kumkum on forehead, reminiscence the teachings of Bhagawat Gita while experiencing Krishna Jayanthi festival.
Whether it be a fun filled ride to the temple, with trivias and interactive engaging discussion on interesting facts on our culture, get immersed in Ganesha clay making all the way to shilpis showing the intricacies of stone carving of temple architecture, or get your kids act together with Baby Krishna fun games like dahi handi – pot breaking, Putting Krishna feet using kolam or learn about how important is ones guru in our lives, what are the 11 sayings of Sai baba, we are going to have lot of fun learning.
We have some history talks too – what is the dating of Ramayana and when did Mahabharata war happen, who invented Vaccination? etc!
As BHO is very eager to take this tour to other states of USA, We are extremely privileged and honored to get overwhelming support from the temples of USA.
Starting this summer 2023, Parents can sign up for 1 or more tours for the Kids using the bhogl.org/heritage-yatra. A year long program , this noble initiative aims to bring constant source of funding to the temples of AZ. The proceeds from the tour will be donated to the participating temple with a minimal operational cost towards Bharat Heritage Organization.
For temples who are interested to participate in the BHO yatra, here is the interest form.
With Gods grace and power of the community, guided by influencers and leaders from our community, we eagerly look forward to scale this noble initiative to larger USA.
