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Kathewadi: An ideal village from another time
Sangeeta Anand visits Kathewadi village in Maharashtra's Nanded district to see an amazing transformation. We are finally in view of Kathewadi, a tiny village in the back of the beyond in Nanded district in Maharashtra. It's been a six-hour jour ... -
Developing rural areas with the Breath Water Sound Program
Nav Chetna Shivir (also called the Breath-Water-Sound workshop) seeks to address the challenges of economically and emotionally distressed communities by empowering them with the tools and techniques they need to fight these challenges. The first step tow ... -
Rural Development
Description: Rural development Inspired by the vision of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, The Art of Living has been working relentlessly towards empowering rural communities through programs like the 5H program, Light A Home Project, and Gurudev Natural Fa ... -
Nature’s way of farming-Permaculture
What can be more exciting than to be able to cook a meal with the veggies grown in your backyard? Or to be eating chemical-free, healthy vegetables and greens. One need not have a professional degree in agriculture to practice permaculture farming methods ... -
Creating ODF villages one area at a time
Creating ODF villages, one area at a time An ordinary and inevitable room of a house can change someone’s life. Extraordinarily. We’re talking about a bathroom, more specifically, a toilet. A one-pointed determination to realize an open defecation free (O ... -
Rama Tewary: Bringing a natural farming revolution to the Northeast
Diagnosed with throat cancer, Rama Tewari’s life came to a standstill in 2004. Holding a doctorate in botany, this brilliant scientist was fighting choices. Having tried and exhausted many forms of treatment, she decided to come to The Art of Living Inter ... -
Sand Filtration Plants Provide Safe Drinking Water for Rural Bengal
Overview Location: West Bengal Duration: 2013- Present “I used to fetch drinking water from the nearby well…it used to have a bad taste and foul smell, but we had no other option. Many of us used to have stomach issues and cough problems due to this. We a ... -
Children of the Bamboo sing a new tune
With 821 homes lit, Karnataka’s Soliga tribe welcomes electricity in the village It was a new sight. Seeing a bright light inside a hut in the middle of the day. No, it was not sunlight. This unusual sight gathered attention, and soon there was a little c ... -
Constructing toilets to combat open defecation
A software engineer constructing toilets in the villages of Andhra Pradesh is a rare sight. This is precisely what you will find Sudhakar Veeravalli doing. Armed with a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Sudhakar qu ... -
Opening doors of opportunity
The Sri Sri Rural Development program has set up training institutes in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, with the idea of channelizing the energy of the youth in a productive direction as a step toward rooting out substance abuse. Beginning with the Sri Sri Compu ...
