The Art of Living’s journey
- Incepted in 1981
- Present in 180 countries
- 10,000 centers across the world
- 40,000 Instructors globally
- 800 million people benefitted
Highlights from the service initiatives include:
Conflict resolution
- 150,000+ trauma-relief beneficiaries in Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, among others
- 7,400+ armed insurgents join mainstream including militants from Kashmir and Assam, Naxalite terrorists, Kosovo Liberation Army veterans, the LTTE in Sri Lanka, Maoists in Nepal
- 1586 war veterans helped to deal with PTSD through Sudarshan Kriya Yoga
- In Iraq, 50,000 people have been provided with life skills and trauma relief programs
- 6,000 Iraqi women given vocational training
Environmental sustainability
- Reviving 72 rivers and thousands of water bodies across Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India
- 9.6 million trees planted in 36 countries
- Over 3 million people trained in Sri Sri Natural Farming
- Around 512 tons of garbage removed in the ‘Clean Yamuna’ Campaign
- 4,00,000+ cleanliness drives conducted by volunteers
Rural development in India
- 70,000 villages, reached in India
- 1,00,000 hygiene camps conducted
- 3,04,681+ youth trained in 402 districts of rural India
- 30 lakhs farmers trained in natural farming methods
- 4,75,000+ people trained in various vocational skills over 14 years
- 110 model gram panchayats being developed
- 1,11,000+ women trained in vocational skills
- 3,819 homes, 62,000+ toilets and 1,000 biogas plants built
- 1,00,000+ cleanliness drives conducted by volunteers
- 45,000 individuals from 12 states of India benefited through HIV/AIDS Awareness for Rural Adolescent (HARA) campaign
- 15,000+ youths benefited from de-addiction programs
- 4,000+ Panchayat members trained for good governance
Prison rehabilitation
- Programs running in 65 countries
- 8,00,000+ inmates transformed
- Over 3,50 ,000 inmates in India benefitted including
* Over 60,000 convicts, 130 prison staff of Tihar Jail (Asia’s largest prison) - 10000+ prisoners and 1300 reformed armed insurgents given vocational training under Project SRIJAN
Free education
- 1327 schools benefitting over 1,00,000 children in remote areas of India
Awareness drives
- Mobilized 10.6 million people to garner support for Millennium Development Goals
- 1 million people in India pledged to protect the girl child under the UNICEF-AOL campaign
- About 1,00,000 people sensitized against gender testing of pregnant women
- About 1,50,000 people sensitized against child marriage
- 25,000+ people treated with holistic intervention methodologies for drug and alcohol addiction in India
