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Integrated Community Development
Overview Natural farming, rainwater harvesting, stress-relief workshops in Vidarbha School education, skills training and health camps in Bangalore and Delhi slums Hygiene and sanitation, smokeless chulhas, organic farming in Kapsi The Integrated Communit ... -
Vocational Training
Overview 5,000 youth trained in various vocational skills 5,000 rural women trained and 258 SHGs formed 1,800 prisoners and 1,300 reformed militants trained Unemployment is, both, a demand side as well as a supply-side problem. On the demand side, the num ... -
Integrated Community Development in Odisha
The problem Currently, the rural part of Odisha is facing multiple social, economic and environmental challenges. The population census of 2011 revealed that out of total 96.6 lakh households in Odisha, only 22.4% of them have drinking water sources in th ... -
Rural Manager Training Program
The Art of Living’s Project Management Unit (PMU) has created a Rural Manager Training Program (RMTP) that trains capable young leaders to be efficient managers who can work with the field teams and drive sustainable and high-impact social change. These m ... -
Health and Hygiene
Overview 5.6 million people benefited by 165,000 free stress-relief camps 49,500 hygiene camps and 25,950 medical camps 5,418 toilets built in rural village and urban slums communities Over the last 37 years, The Art of Living has uniquely addressed healt ... -
Children of the Bamboo sing a new tune
For the first time in March 2010, The Art of Living Happiness Programs were conducted in Chad, Africa. The programs were conducted for residents as well as staff at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Mission in the Central A ... -
Once an alcoholic, this professor now steers youth de-addiction programs
Early days Hailing from Watur near Jalna in Maharashtra, Dr. Wayal was brought up in a spiritually inclined, simple, middle-class family that followed the warkari tradition. Being the coveted son after three daughters, he was a pampered child who grew u ... -
How The Art of Living gave farmers in Vidarbha a new lease of life
Background Here farmers are born in debt and die in debt – Old Marathi saying One thousand nine hundred and twenty* farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra between January 2001 and August 2006, according to Government figures. Unofficial figures put it at ... -
From drugs to seva: Dhara is on a new high
A drug peddler and a man adored by students. Two different people, right? Wrong. Dhara Singh was a simple boy, a farmer’s son, who grew up in the remote village of Khera in Rajasthan. Education in his village was only up to middle school. So, he had to le ... -
The unbelievable story of Kapsi: From drought to water sufficiency
Life has changed completely for Dadasaheb Khatar, a farmer who lives in Kapsi village located on the dusty two-lane Phaltan-Satara highway. His days of long wait for tankers are over. He no longer looks out from Phaltan for tankers that used to bring 12,0 ...
