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Better Health with Toilets
The access to toilets has helped many villages to overcome many diseases. Earlier the practice was to answer nature’s call in the fields, leading to breeding of mosquitoes. Also women would have to relieve themselves only after sunset or before sunrise, l ... -
Plentiful Water
Participants of The Art of Living’s Youth Leadership Training Program (YLTP) took it on themselves to reach out to villagers of Devool-Vadsa, a small village in Dharva taluka of Yavatmal. Starting in December 2006, the youth leaders, along with the locals ... -
Implementing Garbage Collection and Disposal System
Complete garbage removal and disposal system will be implemented in Hinjawadi village, Pune, India. This includes placing Garbage Collecting Bins across Hinjawadi Village. Employees from the local municipality will collect garbage from Garbage Collecting ... -
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 ... -
Stress-elimination for house helpers
Breath-Water-Sound Workshop is an Art of living initiative that was organized for Filipino house helpers sheltered at the Philippine Embassy. About 70 workers from the Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali Group in Riffa learnt stress-relief techniques. “This is the firs ... -
Drivers breathe easy to combat road stress
To increase road safety, The Art of Living launched the Road Peace campaign in association with the Children & Mother Welfare Society in February 2007. The General Directorate of Traffic supported this initiative that included stress-elimination works ... -
Discovering Agnihotra: an ancient secret to improve agriculture
There are many secrets in our ancient traditions, which are alive even today. Agnihotra is one of them. Literally, it is translated as healing fire (agni is fire, hotra means healing). Having its roots mainly in Ayurveda, Agnihotra traces its origin to th ... -
Finding alternatives for traditional stoves
Chulhas & Bio Gas In most villages Chulhas or firewood stoves are mainly used in many households for cooking. This generates a lot of smoke, which is one of the main causes for breathing problems amongst the village folks. To overcome this issue, the ... -
Addressing Drug Abuse
Anti Drug Forum (ADF) In South Africa The ADF was set up in October 2005 to address the alarming drug abuse and addiction that has afflicted the community of Chatsworth in Durban as well as surrounding communities. This is an ongoing project and the ADF c ... -
Bringing hope to suicide-prone Vidarbha
The Art of Living has been working towards stopping farmer suicides in the Vidarbha, an agricultural belt in Maharashtra. Many of its farmers had taken to committing suicide owing to poor crop and rising debts. The Art of Living implemented a program spec ...
Founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,The Art of Living is an educational and humanitarian movement engaged in stress-management and service initiatives.
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