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Revolutionizing Education, VVMVP Rural School
Background Ved Vignan Maha Vidhya Peeth (VVMVP) was the first rural school started by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in 1981. It started when Gurudev observed some local children playing in the dust near The Art of Living Centre. When he saw that they had n ... -
Sustaining the Spirit of Life
Art of Living’s Interventions for Positive People “If all of us can take on this project to educate the youth, to educate youngsters about healthy living, positive thinking and a stigma-free, inhibition-free attitude towards people, we would have taken a ... -
1500 kgs of Garbage Disappear
“Ancient cultures all over the world have exhibited a deep reverence for Nature. For them, God was not in temples or churches, but was inherent in Nature. It's only when we start moving away from Nature that we start polluting Nature. Today there is ... -
Manos Que Ayudan
“Las Manos que Ayudan” es un Proyecto Solidario e Integrador. Una iniciativa de servicio de voluntarios de la Fundación El Arte de Vivir. Trabajamos con el objetivo de elevar los valores humanos y la calidad de vida de la gente que vive desprotegida en ... -
Giving Slum Dwellers a New Direction in Life
The Aparajita Seva Project, under the aegis of Vyakti Vikas Kendra India, was started for the benefit of the slum dwellers near Kalkaji, in New Delhi. Aparajita, or the unconquerable, began with an aim to achieve economic self sufficiency for women. Since ... -
Snjezana Nisevic: Healing the Trauma
Snjezana Nisevic, is director of The Art of Living programs in Kosovo and Albania. The Kosovo area of the Balkans has been the scene of conflict many times in the last millennium, most notably the Kosovo War in 1998-1999. The Art of Living has carried out ... -
Meri Dilli Meri Yamuna: A massive river cleaning drive
“A staggering 3.6 billion tons of untreated sewage flows daily into the Yamuna and the river supplies 60% of the water needed by the Delhi region. The situation is dire. We need to act now. And one single organization or entity cannot do things all by its ... -
Vocational Training for Iraqi Women
Women Empowerment Program Suad is a 35 year-old widow with five children. As an immigrant without any identification papers, it was very difficult for her to find a job. After taking the Women Empowerment Program tailoring and trauma relief courses, she h ... -
Stop Smoking, Start Living
Is every other year’s resolution, but only this time a precious reality. Ujval Shankar, the initiator of the campaign, Stop Smoking, Start Living, shares the time he crossed over and came out clean on the other side, “I joined the Art of Living about eigh ... -
Prison SMART in Tihar Jail
Tihar Jail The Prison SMART program was introduced in Tihar Jail in 1999. More than 120,000 inmates from prisons in India have undergone the Prison SMART program with spectacular results. In Tihar Jail (Asia's largest prison) alone, around 48,000 c ...