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 Sri Sri Natural Farming. These rural development programs seek to build harmony and boost the emotional, physical and economic well-being in rural and tribal areas.
Impact:
- Reached 40,212 villages
- Conducted 40,500 cleanliness drives
- Trained 203,220 rural youth under Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP)
- Conducted 165,000 free stress-relief workshops benefiting over 5,688,000 people
- Conducted 52,466 hygiene camps benefitting 7,869,900 people
- Organized 27,427 medical camps benefitting 577,400 people
- Planted 10.6 million trees
- Built 3,819 homes, 62,000 toilets, 1,200 bore-wells and 1,000 biogas plants
- Developed 55 model villages benefiting 115,000 people
- Organized HIV/AIDS awareness for Rural Adolescent campaign reaching out to over 45,000 individuals in 12 states of India
- Provided affordable and clean lighting to over 65,000 people in 16,500 households
- Trained 20,00,000 farmers in natural farming
- Trained over 27,000 youth in vocational skills over 14 years
- Set-up 8 solar microgrids in rural belt of West Bengal, Karnataka, and Maharashtra
- Provided solar grids in nine schools in rural belt of Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Rajasthan
- Trained 1,033 yuvacharyas as renewable energy technicians to install and repair renewable energy products
- Inspired 98 new entrepreneurs in solar energy to set-up and maintain solar battery charging station
- Distributed 1,500 solar study lights to schoolchildren in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Karnataka in 2016
- Distributed over 15,000 solar lights in tribal areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu among others
Stories of Change
Once an alcoholic, he is now helping in the de-addiction of youth
https://www.artofliving.org/in-en/high-different-kind
How The Art of Living gave farmers in Vidarbha a new lease of life
https://www.artofliving.org/vidarbha-farmers-learn-art-living
From drugs to seva: Dara is on a new high
https://www.artofliving.org/in-en/drugs-seva-dara-new-high