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How this lady is bringing communities together to fight against open-defecation and superstitions
The tribal community and the economically backward community in Jharkhand’s Khuchidih village had, for the first time, come together for an event. The occasion was a community-building and empowerment program. The communities that could not entertain the ... -
Skill Development and Training for Youth
Overview Location: Pan- India Duration: 2012- Present “I recently completed a 3-month course at the Electrician Centre. I have started getting many opportunities to work after doing this course. I learned a lot during the course in a very short span of ti ... -
Gram Panchayat with 90% addiction rate now bags award for de-addiction
Until 2016, addiction plagued the streets and homes of Lariapalli Panchayat, a group of nine villages and three hamlets in Odisha. Traditionally, the villagers produced and consumed country liquor. However, a simple tradition of having country liquor at c ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
