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The Peanut Butter Project empowers women in Zimbabwe
Every morning, Mary, a resident of Murewa in Zimbabwe, would wake up before dawn and toil making peanut butter with stone. The tiresome process would take hours, giving just enough butter to survive. Low on funds, she hardly had enough money to send her k ... -
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 ... -
Teaching Communities to be Self Sufficient
The Beginning The project was started in July 2009, with a target group of unemployed and disadvantaged women with families. Teaching Communities to be Self Sufficient The Home Gardening Project teaches community members to make organic home food gardens ... -
Sri Sri Rural Development Project
The Sri Sri Rural Development Project (SSRDP) was established in 2001. Since its inception, it has initiated numerous projects in India to empower rural women. The project offers a comprehensive four-month training program and consequently offers employme ... -
VISTA India
The Beginning The VISTA project was started in 1985 near Bangalore to empower illiterate women, abused women and women in poor health. The Training It provides vocational training in sewing and embroidery, while women are also taught literacy and informed ... -
Weaving dreams in Jute, Gadag
Sometimes, small measures are all that’s needed to change the world. A tiny village in Karnataka is scripting a quiet tale of empowerment by weaving dreams in jute. The Art of Living Foundation started a jute bag-making unit in Bahadoor Baddi in Koppala, ... -
Women Empowerment Program testimonial 1
WEP Coordinator “Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is my inspiration. Watching him work selflessly, tirelessly, enthusiastically, joyously- working towards making life a celebration on this planet- that is what inspires me to take on the challenges.” ...
Founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,The Art of Living is an educational and humanitarian movement engaged in stress-management and service initiatives.
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