{"id":27065,"date":"2013-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/work\/uncategorized\/highlights-social-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T18:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T13:02:28","slug":"highlights-social-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/de\/work\/service-social-programs\/highlights-social-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight &#8211; Social Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1981, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar established the Art of Living Foundation, an educational organization with a presence in over 180 countries. The Foundation\u2019s individual development programs offer powerful tools to eliminate stress and foster a sense of well-being.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, Gurudev founded the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), a humanitarian organization, which promotes societal responsibility and human values in political, economic, and social spheres.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>IAHV<\/strong> and the <strong>Art of Living Foundation<\/strong> collaborate on humanitarian initiatives, including conflict resolution, disaster and trauma relief, environmental conservation, anti-corruption, prisoner rehabilitation, youth leadership, women\u2019s empowerment, and universal education. <strong>Both organizations enjoy special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>In over 40 years of Service in more than 180 countries, The Art of Living Foundation and IAHV have:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Affected more than <strong>500 million<\/strong> people<\/li>\n<li>Planted more than <strong>81 million trees<\/strong> around the world<\/li>\n<li>Transformed the lives of <strong>over 800,000 prison inmates<\/strong> through the prison program<\/li>\n<li>Trained <strong>247,620 rural youth<\/strong> in\u00a0<i>Youth Leadership Training Program<\/i>\u00a0&#8211; mainly in India, Africa and South America<\/li>\n<li>Conducted over <strong>165,000 free stress-relief workshops<\/strong> benefiting <em>more than <\/em><strong>5,688,000 people<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Built over <strong>3,819 homes, 62,000 toilets, 1,200 bore-wells, 1,000 bio-gas plants<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Conducted <strong>90,200<\/strong><em> hygiene camps<\/em> benefiting <strong>7,869,900\u00a0people\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>27,427<\/strong><em> medical camps<\/em> benefiting <strong>577,400 people<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reached 70,000 villages<\/strong> with the <em>5H program &#8211; Health, Hygiene, Homes, Harmony in diversity, Human values<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Trained over <strong>2.2 Million farmers in 22 states in organic farming<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rural electrification benefiting over <strong>165,000 people<\/strong>. <strong>Adopted 720 villages<\/strong> for \u201cLight-a-home\u201d project.<\/li>\n<li class=\"sr-only\">Held more than <strong>500 conferences with over 10,000 leaders<\/strong> from business, academia, sciences, art, and religion in participation<\/li>\n<li>Provided education to more than <strong>100,000<\/strong><em>\u00a0children from <\/em><strong>over 1,262<\/strong><em> free schools across <\/em><strong>2032 villages<\/strong><em> in India<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Benefited <strong>120,000 students from 225 schools across the United States<\/strong> through the\u00a0<i>YES! for Schools<\/i>\u00a0program and more than 127,000 students on 101 university campuses through the <a title=\"SKY Campus programs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skycampushappiness.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SKY Campus programs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Overview of Art of Living Service Projects across India<\/h2>\n<h3>Covid response<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Over <strong>43,390 COVID frontline workers<\/strong> reached through mental health programs<\/li>\n<li>Over <strong>75,122,069 meals<\/strong> to over <strong>2.5 million families<\/strong> in India as of May 13<sup>th<\/sup> 2020<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"A Nationwide COVID Relief Effort\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artofliving.org\/in-en\/projects\/corona-relief-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Details of nation-wide COVID relief by the Art of Living and IAHV<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Art of Living Disaster Relief Efforts\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.gurudev.artofliving.org\/work\/service-social-programs\/highlights-disaster-relief\">Other Disaster Relief Efforts<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Focus on literacy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Over <strong>100,000 children<\/strong> in more than <strong>1,262 schools<\/strong> across 2032 villages in India benefitted under the Free School Education Program.<\/li>\n<li>Students receive value-based education in a stress-free, student-friendly environment\u00a0that enable to strengthen their cultural roots<\/li>\n<li>The girl to boy ratio in the schools is about 48 to 52.<\/li>\n<li>The first school was started in 1981 in Udayapura village in Rural Bengaluru.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Focus on the environment<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tree Plantation<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>81 million trees planted<\/strong> in 36 countries and 26 Indian states.<\/li>\n<li>Over 20 lakh Lakshmitaru saplings planted across India.<\/li>\n<li>9 million trees planted under the initiative of Mission Green Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural Farming<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteers reached out to stakeholders for generating awareness about Natural\u00a0Farming through seminars, training workshops, model farm visits, awareness\u00a0programs and Krishi Melas (farmer meets).<\/li>\n<li>Over 2.2 million people trained in Gurudev Natural Farming, a sustainable solution to\u00a0address the challenge of ensuring food security for a growing population.<\/li>\n<li>Seed banks set up across the country to promote the preservation of indigenous seed\u00a0varieties.<\/li>\n<li>Number of trainers across India: 2,200<\/li>\n<li><strong>56,157 acres<\/strong> converted to climate resilient agriculture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Water Conservation &amp; River Rejuvenation<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Water Conservation and River Rejuvenation projects in progress, including\u00a0cleaning of polluted rivers.<\/li>\n<li>Water Conservation and River Rejuvenation is ongoing in <strong>70 rivers<\/strong> across\u00a0Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu<\/li>\n<li>Over <strong>64,585 recharge structures<\/strong> have been constructed and more than <strong>656,944 trees<\/strong> have been planted for this project<\/li>\n<li>Over <strong>34.5 million 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were\u00a0maintained even years after they underwent the program.<\/li>\n<li>150,000+ war survivors in Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon,\u00a0Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Balkans and Afghanistan benefitted from trauma relief\u00a0programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Waste Management<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3 tons of waste (organic offerings) at Dakshineshwar Temple, West Bengal converted\u00a0into more than 1 ton of compost at The Dakshineshwar Temple in one month.<\/li>\n<li>Waste management plants installed: 18<\/li>\n<li>Total capacity to process waste through waste management plants: 4.234 million kgs of waste\/year<\/li>\n<li>Total capacity to process waste in a single day: 11,600 kg<\/li>\n<li>Waste pickers are trained in waste segregation:\u00a01,000 in 15 states<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Hygiene &amp; Medical Camps<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>90,200 hygiene camps conducted, benefiting 7,869,900 people<\/li>\n<li>27,427 medical camps organised benefiting 577,400 people<\/li>\n<li>Awareness raised on the prevention of female foeticide<\/li>\n<li>55 model villages being developed by YLTP volunteers<\/li>\n<li>Built 3,819 homes, 62,000 toilets, 1,200 bore-wells, and 1,000 bio-gas plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Holistic Prison Rehabilitation<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Programs running in 60 countries<\/li>\n<li>Lives of 800,000 inmates transformed<\/li>\n<li>Over 350,000 inmates from prisons in India have undergone the Prison program.<\/li>\n<li>Over 60,000 convicts and 130 prison staff of Tihar Jail (Asia\u2019s largest prison) have\u00a0benefited from the program.<\/li>\n<li>7,400 armed insurgents from extremist outfits rehabilitated through trauma relief workshops\u00a0and vocational skill training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Rural Development Programs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>43,980 cleanliness drives conducted by volunteers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Light a Home<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 166,100 people in 758 villages benefitted from solar lighting under\u00a0The Light a Home project in the tribal areas of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,\u00a0Uttarakhand, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu among\u00a0others.<\/li>\n<li>46 Solar Micro Grids in India set up for the Integrated Rural Energy Access Model\u00a0Village Program.<\/li>\n<li>Solar Grids provided in 165 schools in rural areas of India.<\/li>\n<li>1,033 Yuvacharyas (Youth Leaders) trained as Renewable Energy Technicians to\u00a0install Renewable Energy Products.<\/li>\n<li>98 new entrepreneurs inspired in the field of Solar Energy for setting up of solar\u00a0battery charging stations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kaushal: Skills and Vocational Training Program<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 310,561 youth in over 500 districts of 23 states trained in various vocational skills over 14 years.<\/li>\n<li>3,294 inmates trained\u00a0under Project Srijan, (the Prisoners\/Militants Rehabilitation 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Water<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Trained 60 Rural Youths as Jal Sevaks to manufacture low cost Bio Sand Water\u00a0Filters.<\/li>\n<li>Provided safe drinking water to more than 45,000 individuals in 267 villages by\u00a0setting up four community water filters, distributing individual water filters and\u00a0making 78 bore-wells in the states of Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and\u00a0Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>Installation of seven Community RO and Bio Sand Filters in Karnataka and West\u00a0Bengal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Campaigns<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mobilized 10.6 million people to garner support for Millennium Development Goals.<\/li>\n<li>1 million people in India pledged to protect the girl child under the UNICEF-AOL campaign.<\/li>\n<li>100,000 acts of inspiration and change, under the UNICEF campaign, carried out in support of the girl child<\/li>\n<li>About 100,000 people sensitized against gender testing of pregnant women.<\/li>\n<li>About 150,000 people sensitized against 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src=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture-3.jpg\" alt=\"Walk for water\" width=\"370\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>Leading a &#8220;Walk for Water&#8221;, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was joined by school children to spread awareness and inspire Bangalore residents to conserve water.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-761\" src=\"https:\/\/gurudev.artofliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sri-sri-with-karnataka-prison-inmates-june-2013-1.jpg\" alt=\"Transforming prison inmates\" width=\"370\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>Seeking guidance from The Art of Living Founder, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar were the 30 prisoners of Bangalore Central Jail who have been transforming lives of prison inmates across seven prisons in Karnataka.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1237\" 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