Flood Relief Efforts
Karnataka Flood Relief
Manila Flood Relief
Manila Flood Relief The Art of Living centre in the Philippines worked closely with the Red Cross to provide Breath-Water-Sound trauma relief programmes for thousands of families in Manila and Northern...
Bihar Flood Relief
Bihar, India (September 2008) September 2008 saw an estimated 3.5 million people in Bihar affected by the flood caused when the Kosi River, engorged by the monsoon, changed its course, following a breach...
Surat Flood Relief
Surat, India (August 2006) In August 2006, heavy floods ravaged the city of Surat, Gujarat, claiming the lives of hundreds and affecting thousands more. Water levels were as high as 22 feet in some parts...
Mumbai Flood Relief
Mumbai, India (July 2005) Soon after Mumbai was submerged by floods in July 2005, the Art of Living volunteers rushed to the worst-affected slums of Agripada, Dharavi and Kalwa despite chest-high water...
Karnataka Flood Relief
Karnataka Flood Relief Efforts (Sept. 2009) On 5th October 2009, the Indian state of Karnataka suffered from severe flooding. The heavy rains left over 200 people dead and 300,000 people homeless in the...
Ladakh Flood Relief
Following the colossal damage after the floods in Ladakh on August 5, The Art of Living began trauma relief efforts in the district. Ladakh witnessed a cloudburst and flash floods and mudslides, leaving...
Flood relief work in Brisbane
How can I help? There are two ways of supporting: Contact the nearest Art of Living teacher and make donations. Go to Brisbane and lend a hand. For more details, contact: AtulAneja @ aol.atulaneja@gmail.com...
Bringing hope in flood-affected Bihar
For most, August 18, 2008 is another date on the calendar. “When we reached there on August 19, we didn’t know what to do because most of the villagers were still stuck inside. We took a truck full of...
Orissa Floods 2011
Floods wreaked havoc in 30 districts of Orissa. Districts like Kendrapara, Puri, Jajpur, Sambalpur, Sundergarh, and Balasore were the worst affected. Around 14 lakh people were affected across 19 districts...
Uttarakhand floods: Immediate call for relief-action
Uttarakhand floods: Reaching out to the affected In an initiative to provide immediate material and trauma relief to the evacuees of the calamity-struck Uttarakhand, The Art of Living volunteers in Dehradun...
Calgary Flood Relief Efforts
Thousands of people were evacuated, displaced, homes were flooded, emotions were stirred up, sleep patterns were imbalanced and stress overtook the entire city when the Bow and Elbow flooded on June 21st....
The Ten Days That Changed Their Lives
As Sumeet Dayma, Tushar Bhamare, Abhishek Joshi and Vilas Sonawane from Nasik, Maharashtra watched the horrific aftermath of the Uttarakhand Floods unfold on TV, a burning desire to leave the comfort of...
Re-Kindling Hope in Uttarakhand
While death and destruction continue to hound the dark alleys of Uttarakhand, six young women dynamos of the Art of Living Foundation risked their own lives to bring about an awe-inspiring transformation...
Champion of the masses
Until few years ago, he was unruly, rowdy and alcoholic, indulging in all kinds of nefarious activities. Today the reformed soul is a charismatic youth volunteer of the Art of Living, doing yeoman service...
A Doctor Heals the Hills
As Uttarakhand reeled under the onslaught of floods, an anatomy professor at the Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Medical College, who also happens to be an Art of Living faculty, started relief...
Young Achievers of Uttarakhand
Hope is not lost yet in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand as thousands of youth volunteers of the Art of Living join hands for path breaking action. Their steely resolve to bring about an effective change,...
The Iron man of Uttarakhand
In a rare display of indomitable spirit, third year student of engineering, and active volunteer of the Art of Living, Maninder Singh unwaveringly faced daunting odds, as he fought his way through narrow...
How the young risked lives to serve Uttarakhand
Shashank Paliwal, an electrical engineer from Dehradun, was frantically hunting for a job when the June disaster happened. He rushed to the hills after seeing the distraught crying on TVs As nature unleashed...
Flood relief work in Srinagar
1. Debris clearance from Shakti Vihar, Srinagar Shakti Vihar, near SSB Training ground, on the banks of River Alakananda in Srinagar was badly hit due to the floods. The debris was 8 feet high and 63 houses...
