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The day after history was made

The first type of restlessness is due to the place you are in. When you move away from that place, the street or the house, you immediately feel better. Chanting, singing, children playing and laughing can change this atmospheric restlessness. If you chant and sing, the vibration in the place changes.The second type of restlessness is in the body. Eating the wrong food or vata aggravating food, eating at odd times, not exercising, and overworking can all cause a physical restlessness. The remedy for this is exercise, moderation in work habits and going on a vegetable or juice diet for one or two days.The third type of restlessness is mental restlessness. It is caused by ambition, strong thoughts, likes or dislikes. Knowledge alone can cure this restlessness. Seeing life from a broader perspective, knowledge about the Self and the impermanence of everything. If you achieve everything, so what? After your achievement, you will die. Knowledge of your death or life, confidence in the Self, in the Divine, can all calm down the mental restlessness.Then there is emotional restlessness. Any amount of knowledge does not help here. Only Kriya helps! All that emotional restlessness vanishes. Also the presence of the Guru, a wise person, or a saint will help to calm your emotional restlessness.The fifth type of restlessness is rare. It is the restlessness of the soul. When everything feels empty and meaningless, know you are very fortunate. That longing and restlessness is the restlessness of the soul. Do not try to get rid of it. Embrace it! Welcome it! Usually to get rid of it people do all sorts of things – they change places, jobs or partners, do this, do that. It seems to help for some time, but it does not last.This restlessness of the soul alone can bring authentic prayer in you. It brings perfection, Siddhis and miracles in life. It is so precious to get that inner most longing for the Divine. Satsang, the presence of the enlightened one, soothes the restlessness of the soul.

Five Types of Restlessness

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji

Rajasthan (Molela) - On the occasion of Hindu New Year, the bus stand was decorated with the prepossessing rangoli to welcome all for this event. The villagers very enthusiastically participated in the event. 101 bowls were hung on the trees to feed

the birds. Earlier, there were no birds seen in this village in the summer seasonbut sincethis initiative taken 5 years ago the villagers are very happy to see the birds in the summer season. Sudhir Bohara vice sarpanch of Molela village said “The Art

of Living from is providing water bowls for the birds for the last 5 years. The birds are protected from the heat stroke and death due to lack of water. We have seen increasing number of birds each year. We are very delighted.

The team of 25 volunteers and villagers turn by turn fill the bowls with water. Parrots, Crows, Pigeons and Sparrows are seen all over the village. It’s an eye-catching moment to see the birds drinking water and flying away happily”.

Most Indians or even a significant part of the world would probably have not heard so much about the Yamuna until The World Culture Festival which took place from 11-13th March 2016. Despite the mudslinging in the media, The World Culture Festival did not harm the Yamuna plains, this remains uncontested and the truth stands out. Art of Living left the Yamuna banks cleaner than it was before the event. Firstly, only bio toilets provided by Sulabh and Super Loo were installed at the venue. All the waste was collected, including the

water from the wash basins, in the 900 bio toilets. The human waste was deposited in Killa Sewage. This means that there was no human waste which was spilt on the Yamuna land. The Zero Waste Manage-ment group installed over 800 bins, for both dry and wet waste. The Bharat Vikas Group (BVG) was appointed to gather the waste generated at the venue, which was then segregated by SPML (POMPOM) into wet, dry, biodegradable and non- biodegradable waste and carried in their trucks. After the Festival, over 300 members of the BVG, assisted by over 400 volunteers from The Art of Living gathered the waste from the venue

for segregation. Finally over 15 tonnes of wet waste were collected and sent to the Okhla compost plant, and over 28 truckloads of dry waste were sent to recycling units. The Art of Living volunteers visited the site for days after the Festival, going in for a few hours each day, based on their work or academic schedule to help BVG and SPML clean the venue.“Since I had to travel immediately after the Festival, I went to the venue just a few days after the festival with a group of friends wanting to help the clean-up operations, but we found that the venue was

already clean,” says UPSC aspirant Sunita Arora.

“It was an amazing experience to come and celebrate with lakhs of people from around the world. But it was even more amazing that hundreds of people, who were already worn out by putting in so much effort into the Festival came in to clean the venue with the same enthusiasm, just the day after it ended. The kind of responsibility and commitment they showed was admirable and inspiring and I was happy to be a part of it.” says Arie Baxter from Netherlands, an International Art of Living Faculty.

New Trend: Villagers with Volunteers are filling water in the bowls for the birds

Helping the birds to beat the heat

Cleaning the venue with enthusiasm, just the day after it ended

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Water Purifiers distributed to 46 families in Kalyanpur district of Odisha.

220 Home lights distributed by SSRDP on Dr B.R. Ambedkarls Anniversery.

First aid training organised for the villagers of Chikmangalore

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It is Poojya Gurudev’s vision that farming in India should have sustainable practices in place to ensure nutritional security for the nation as well as provide better livelihood to farm based families.

SSIAST has taken number of initiatives to promote sustainable practices with the help of volunteers and agriculture teachers who are helping farmers in the rural areas to adopt organic farming methods in agriculture.

On 11th March 2016, Delhi, in the presence of Poojya Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Sri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, 51 farmers were felicitated with “Krishi Ratna” award,

Considering their outstanding contribution in the field of agriculture, practising natural farming to develop their land and water resources and increasing their agricultural production.

“Kaushal Vikas Kendra” giving new hope to the Rural youth

Sri Sri Honoured Organic Farmers in World Culture

Festival

At his farm in Kuzhikattusery in Trissur, Yuvacharya T. G. Subramanian is nurturing 37 desi cows. He has distributed 400 desi cows to households across Kerala. Cow varieties include Vechuri, Kapila, Black Kapila, Malanad and Kasargod. They conduct state-level workshops on desi cow and explain how nurturing this cow is integrated with natural farming methods. People from different parts of Kerala visit Subramanian’s farm seeking advice on desi cow protection and natural farming. Desi cow-based medicines like panchagavya, tooth powder, facepack, ear drops, soaps and eye drops are manufactured and marketed, making farming self-sustaining. These medicines are capable of curing 1000 types of diseases including cancer, hypertension, heart ailments, mental disorder, etc. They are low cost, affordable and hence useful for the society.

Awareness about desi cows is spread by a group of YLTP Yuvacharya Sunder the leadership of Subrahmanian and Ramachandran in Thrissur district. It is known as ‘Gramalakshmi Go Adharit Sarvaiswarya Parishad. The vision of the team members is ‘One desi cow in each home.’ Subrahmanian says, “Nurturing a non-desi cow is very expensive but keeping a desi cow is inexpensive. It requires only grass and water. At the same time, while a non-desi cow ghee costs Rs 350 per kg, desi cow ghee costs Rs. 2000. We have 5–10 desi cows but still not able to provide enough ghee to fulfil the demand of the public.” Ramachandran says, “It has been 5 years since we started this project here. The initial step was to bring a desi cow from a place called Monadi, Kodaly. So, we brought a desi

calf which was found in the forest. In the mean time we got an opportunity to learn Zero budget natural farming method by Subhash Palekar. We conducted the workshops in Ashtamichira village in Thrissur and Kottayam district. We implemented his methods under the project titled ‘Gurugramam’ at Kuzhikkattussery village in Thrissur. Later we brought cows from Kasaragod district of Kerala and Karnataka state. Now, we are capable of delivering desi cows to the needy. People come here and buy.”

Subrahmanian’s wife Ajitha also supports him in this work. Ajitha was honoured as the best farmer at Aloor Gram Panchayat in 2013 in Kerala Piravi Customer Meet. Mr Subrahmanian was honoured with Gorakshak Puraskar by Harisre Vidya Niketan, Thumboor during the Onam celebration 2012-2013.

Sri Sri Rural Development Programme (A Trust of Art of Living) has started Sri Sri Kaushal Vikas Kendra at Lalgunj in Bardhaman district, West Bengal. The refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) skills training programme and electrical skills training programme were started to provide placement opportunity to the villagers. The faculty has a lab, classroom and office which can accommodate a batch of 30 persons per program. The workshops are equipped

with RAC, electrical training equipment and consumables required for training 50 persons every month. The course curriculum and equipment have been sourced from training partners, Godrej and Schneider Electric Foundation. Bardhaman is considered a backward District by GOI, besides it is also referred to as the minority district of West Bengal. The selected villages are located in the vicinity of the mines & the beneficiaries are largely farmers

who have given up their farm lands and forefather’s means of livelihood to make way for the mines. As such, there is a need to increase overall employability of the population residing in that area. This needed a sustainable intervention which should entail technical skill building and other development activities. The target community was the inhabitants of the villages surrounding the Coal Mining areas. The target is to train 100 people per year.

Jalgaon (Maharashtra):There are many devotees of Khandoba god in Maharashtra as well as Karnataka, from poor to the rich all of them have a strong belief in Khandoba god. During the Holi festival they have a fair from 24th – 31st March.

Every year this fair is held and even the people from foreign

countries visit here. After the yatra ends lots of garbage is scattered everywhere.

The Art of Living volunteers took an initiative to make this place clean again. The cleanliness campaign was held on 3rd April. This campaign was done under the leadership of YLTP teacher Madhav Gavai.

Reaping the benefits of Nurturing Desi cow & Natural Farming

Moment of Pride: Gurudev and prime minister honouring the farmers

The Real Change happened after Holy

Khandoba Yatra

Youths are getting trained for better future

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Tanushree

Khadki (Maharashtra):

This village was famous for providing water to nearby 10

to 12 villages, since 3 years this village has been facing severe drought, to overcome this problem the villagers joined hands with The Art of Living. The work was done on increasing the storage capacity of the Narola River. 100-200 ft widening and 15ft deepening work was done. The funds were collected from villagers, NGO’s and from The Art of living. On 20thMay 2015 this project was completed.

Unfortunately, there was not adequate rainfall last year and the storage was not sufficient. There was water scarcity again this year. In order to resolve this problem, the government released water from the nearest Jayakwadi dam. Around 1 crore litres of water was stored, this led to increase in the water level, water came in to the wells, bore wells and hand pumps. Animals and birds are also seen around the river now.

Bulandshahr (Uttar Pradesh) The Art of living joined hands with Kent RO to build 60 toilets in Inayatgarhi village in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh. The toilet construction started in 2015, after the village was identified during the “Vote for better India” campaign in 2014. Today 30 ration card holder households have got access to the toilets. The toilets are embedded with lights, flooring, iron doors, water and other modern facilities. RO water purifiers are also distributed to 80 families

of the village. Various stress free programmes, cleanliness campaigns, medical camps, de-addiction programmes and other social programmes were also organized by The Art of Living teacher Vikram Raghuvanshi. Inayatgarhi is considered backward because of weak education and economic ground. They depend upon agriculture for their bread and butter. Women were bound to go for open defecation. Now, The Art of Living has adopted this village to transform it into a model village.

While discussing the future plans Vikram said that they will be starting projects like natural farming, schools, nurturing of cow along with organizing sports competition for the sports lovers. Everyone’s focus is to make this village a model village. A village resident Nitin Vashishth said “The programme will enable the the villagers to be free from the diseases. Women will also feel safe as they don’t have to defecate outside. The Art of Living contribution is commendable.”

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Relief from Drought Water storage capacity increased of Narola River

Making of a Model Village, Inayatgarhi

272 villages to be benefitted by Kumudvati River

rejuvenation Farmers are getting back to farming

Man has become so selfish that he is destroying the nature.The rainfall has decreased due to deforestration.Now a days, water is polluted in large scale. The water sources like rivers, canals, wells and ponds are drying up. The ground water level has also decreased. We are only consuming the natural resources. We are not restoring it for our future generations.

There are 272 villages that rely on Kumudvati River for their domestic needs. Since, 20 years the water of Kumudvati River is drying up and the villagers are affected by this. Many had to change their occupation and many lost their lives.

The rejuvenation of Kumudvati river by The Art of Living has shown a new ray of hope not only to all the human beingsbut also to animals, birds and trees.

One of the villagers said that, “When I was young there was abundant water available here and all the animals use to come and drink the holy water of Kumudvati. Now I am feeling my childhood days are back as the water level of the river is raising. I am very happy to see this.’

On the completion of the first phase of the project we would like to share the story of our beneficiary Muniyappa, 38 years old from Adihasaharlle village said” as there was no water

available Ileft doing agriculture and I took up a job as a worker in a nearby factory. One day I discovered that my bore well got recharged and there was water in it. So I decided to start agriculture again. The profit earned by farming has been increased by 50%. I am growing banana, tomato, beans and other kinds of vegetables. I express my gratitude for rejuvenating Kumudvati.This project is been supported by HAL, IAHV, BOSCH. The government is also concerned about the environment and have launched many projects for the betterment of the environment but sometimes they are not able to complete it. One of the reason is lack of manpower. Government should join hands with NGO’s who are working to save environment.The Art of Living is one of the few NGO’s who is working for the betterment of tomorrow. We have rejuvenated 18 rivers all over India. Kumudvati river rejuvenation project is going on for the last 3 years.We have built many water tanks and water pools to save the water from flowing away and evaporation. Storing water in these water pools and water tanks helps percolation of water and the ground water table gets recharged. Beside this project we are also planting many trees.

Chikmagalur, Karnataka:On 4thApril 2016, the First Aid Training was given to villagers by the Art of Living in the Vedvati river Rejuvenation office. Dr. Sunder Gowda inaugurated the event. He is chairman of Youth Red Cross and a very famous doctor.

They have launched the emergency helpline contact number for the villagers. The training was given by Dr. C. N Venkatesh, International professor. He said “when accident has happened first action should be First Aid. There is lack of medical facilities in the villages

so the youths should take an initiative to learn the First Aid and spread this knowledge. It can save lives of many people”. The training was also included how to treat the common diseases, Emergency cases and Snake bite.They distributed the first aid kits to the farmers free of cost.

First Aid Training for Villagers in Chikmagalur

Children are happy to collect the water from hand pump

Water pool are built to store the water andrecharge ground water level

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Muradabaad (Uttar Pradesh), if you have a strong will of achieving spectacular success you can achieve it with right guidance and hard work. The great example of this we can see in the life of Munna Singh, 60 yrs from Hirapur. He said “Our ancestors gave us beautiful gift of doing farming with zero budget but as the time passed we forgot and did farming using pesticides. I took the training of natural farming in the year 2014 and realized that natural farming is very beneficial and we must adopt it. I started doing natural farming

in my 3 acres farm, sowed the seeds of mustard and sugarcane and amazing results were found. Sugarcane was grown in larger amount and mustard was of 12 quintal in approx. 3 acres of land.Effects of chemical farming:Natural farming is more beneficial than Chemical farming as per the above report. Munna Singh thanks the art of living and apex member Santosh Kapoor and teacher Veena Mishra. They took the initiative of making people aware of the benefits of Natural farming. They introduced natural

farming in this village. Now the villagers are very happy. The farmers are ready to do Natural farming and they want to grow various crops and vegetables. Natural farming not only benefits the consumers but it also improves the quality of the soil.Kisan Omveer Singh says that we are destroying the earth by using the chemical fertilizers from past 45 years and are seeing the adverse effects of it now, there is lack of nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, zinc in the soil.

Amazing profits earned by the yield of Crops by Natural Farming Method

Banada/Agra (Uttar Pradesh): Due to the increase in the rate of population the urbanization is taking place and the deforestation has increased rapidly. The Art of Living has taken up the initiative to keep the planet green. Each one plant one tree and nurture it till it grows fully. We can gift a green planet to the future generation.

Environment is the basis of our life. We take pledge that we will plant “at least one tree in our life and will nurture it till it grows fully”. We will also encourage our friends and others to take this initiative, so

that the future generation will have a better tomorrow.

This initiative was started by Vimlesh Rathod and Prof. Neeta Chopra. They started this initiative of saving environment in the year 2007. They are doing plantation in the streets, colleges and villages with the involvement of the general public. They are also spreading awareness of “No use of plastic and Keep the environment litter free”. They have planted more than 20,000 tress of neem, tulsi and medicinal plants.

Nurture a Tree to turn the Planet

Green

650 Toilets Constructed in Maharashtra

Maharashtra Khandiviwadi, Jalna district, The project of 650 toilets was successfully completed by the Project Management team, IAHV, Maharashtra team of Rural Managers and Yuvacharyas.The event was attended by Mr. Babanrao Lonikar, Minister of Sanitation and Water, Maharashtra. The whole village was decked up like a family wedding by villagers. In Dhanora village 130 toilets, Hiwararohila 75, Jaigaon 77, Pimpalgaon Turk 60, Shirasgaon 84, Khandaviwadi

55, Khadaki 48, Edlapur 69, Nandra 62 were constructed.Earlier there was human waste all around and villages and had a foul smell but at the end of the project, the surrounding land was hygienic and clean and everyone was cleaning and using these ‘palace-like’ toilets (their words). Sense of pride was high among the villagers. Human Values were enriched in the villagers. There were bio-gas plants installed in some places and Lakshmitaru planted around homes.

Campaign was held to create awareness about the decreasing water level in environment

Jodhpur (Rajasthan):The Art of Living, six days Happiness Program ended on 2nd April near Banshilal garden, red lake and the inspired participants immediately after the program conducted an awareness campaign. In the awareness campaign various hoardings were displayed to motivate people for eye donation, save water, meditate and become stress free, keep the environment, do yoga and be healthy.

There were two teams of 40 people. First team was involved in eye donation awareness and the second was involved in save water save environment. During this campaign 100 people promised to do eye donation. The Art of Living teachers Rakesh Chandak, Gajendra Gahlot, Rajendra Oza, Manju Gahlot and Kusum Kachwah took the initiative.

Molela (Rajasthan):The bhumi pujan was held on 28thApril of “Home for homeless” an initiative by The Art of Living. The villagers of the Molela were benefited by the various projects undertaken by Art of Living for the last six years.They were very happy by this initiative.The land for the home was donated by Ruplal who is a driver by profession. The villagers

had contributed an amount of 7 to 8 lakhs. The home will be handed to Narayan Prajapati, a poor homeless villager. Art of Living teacher Praveen Sandhaya is personally inspecting the construction of the home. The guests present for this programme were Praveen Mehta, Shobha Palival and Jamnalal. The programme was led by Alok Sandhaya.

Janpadkaragar, Bnanda: In this jail, the use of polythene is banned. It’s a very good initiative taken by the jail inmates. This was done under the leadership of Vimlesh Rathod, Art of living teacher in the year 2010. The use of polythene is still banned in this jail.

Model farm to save mother earth

In Bnanda district and Buldenkhand initiatives are being taken to save mother

earth from poisonous things, the level of ground water is very low and one of the main reason being deforestation. Vimleshji has motivated people to adopt natural farming and desi cows. She has successfully trained thousands of people with Balkrishnaji and is also involved in the government project ofmaking 750 acres of land into a model farm. This is done under paramparagat krushi vikas project.

Polythene is banned in this Jail

Importance of Eye Donation

First step towards building home for

the homeless

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Villagers are happy to access the toilets 24*7

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Firozabaad (Uttar Pradesh): The Art of Living YLTP program was conducted in the government college of Sirsaganj for the students of NSS camp. Anjali Sinha, The Art of Living teacher taught the YLTP program to 200 students. The staff members supported the program in a very good manner. The students took four days Nav

Chetna Shibir in the nearby villages. The students were inspired to work for the betterment of the society through yoga, meditation, satsang and spiritual knowledge. The awareness was created in the students on the subjects like save girl child, educate girl, say no to polythene, vote for better India and say no to dowry.

The students of NSS learned YLTP

The villagers of Kalyanagar have access to safe drinking water

Kalyanagar (Orrisa):The villagers residing here are not having facility of safe drinking water. The villagers were drinking unfiltered water from past many years. The villagers were suffering due to many water borne diseases. They were unaware of safe drinking water. The awareness program of drinking safe water was conducted by Dr. P.S Manjeshwari. He explained the benefits of drinking safe water and also explained the disadvantages of drinking untreated water. Free medical

camp was also the part of this program. This program was organized by the teachers and volunteers of the art of living and the art of living state co-coordinator Bholenath Jena.During this program, SSRDP distributed Tetra filters to 46 families on 30th March. This filter is easy to access and has zero maintenance till 5 years. This village lacks the electricity facility, so SSRDP also distributed the solar lamps. The children were happy as they can now study during night time.

Water purifier being distributed by Bolenath Jain, YLTP Co-ordinator

Curtain raiser event of adopting 80 villages

‘Banali is a village in Jathtaluka of Sangli District in Maharashtra (India). There is water scarcity all over the state. Especially animals and birds starve due to thirst and many die due to heat. The children of Sri Sri Gyan Mandir studying in 3rd standard learnt the method of hydrophonic food The School students asked the teacher can

we practically do this. Students along with the teacher started the project and this was of great success. They named this fodder as ‘Oola Chaara’(wet fodder).This fodder can be given to cow, buffalo, goat and sheep. This success news spread like a wave.The farmers from nearby villages came and learned the procedure.

Popat Shinde, Shegaon said we are inspired by the invention of wet fodder. It is easy to make at home and at a cheap rate, by this we will get nutritious fodder in less time, by eating hydrophonic food the health of the animals will improve and we don’t have to spend more on the supplements. Our expense will also be less leading to higher savings.

Students displaying the “ Hydrophonic green fodder grown without soil but in water or nutrients rich solutions

Oolachaara: Low cost Solution for fodder by Sri Sri Gyan Mandir Children

Hydroponics is a subset of hydro culture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral solution only, or in an inert medium,

such as perlite or gravel .

Step 1. Remove the water and put corn in a cotton cloth or gunny bay and wrap it. Keep it for 12 to 13 hours.

Step 2. Open the cloth and put the corn in tray.spread it evenly and keep in warm condition.

Step 3. Install a sprinkler above the tray and it should be watered in every one to one and half hour.

Step 4. After 6 to 8 days you can see the leaf like structure sprouted upto 2 to 2.5 feet.

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Chandwad Taluka, Maharashtra:On the occasion of Hindu New Year the villagers with the art of living took a pledge of making 80 villages into a model village. This event was a curtain raiser towards the all round development of villages.

Mr. Vijay Hake (Maharashtra’s co-ordinator), Mr. Bhushan Kaslival (Nagaraadhyaskh Chanvaad), Dr. Aatmaram Kumbharde (Sabapati-President of Chaandvaad), and Art of Living teacher Ashok gavli, Sitaram Kumbharde, Anup Patel,

Umesh Devre, Manoj Nikkam and other Nagar sevaks were present for the event.They thanked Sri Sri and Art of Living volunteers for this initiative as the villages will be clean, beautiful, prosperous and cultured.

Students feeding Hydroponic fodderto cattle which is much more easily digestible

She is creating awareness in the Girashia tribal people.Rajasthan-Sangna village is located at the foothills of Mount. Abu in the Aravalli Range in the Sirohi district. In this village people are unaware of the importance of cleanliness and education.There is a government school in the village but the parents and children are not interested. As the occupation of the villagers is mainly agriculture and working on the fields on daily wages. The adults and the children are addicted to smoking and chewing tobacco.Sangeeta was having keen interest from childhood of doing social work in the villages. She worked with many NGO’s but was not satisfied. In the year 2013 she did the art of living programme. She became the art of living teacher in the year 2015 and began to bring happiness in people’s lives. She began to work in the village and cities. During this time she went to Sangna village. She took NCS for the adults and BCS for the kids.She began to make people aware about the cleanliness and importance of education. She taught them yoga, meditation and pranayama. She explained the ill effects of smoking and chewing tobacco.She explained the importance of hygiene to the women. She worked there for one

year. Now the tribal people take bath every day, they wear clean clothes they eat fresh food, many adults and kids have quit the habit of smoking and chewing tobacco. Now the children are going to the school.

She took NCS in the school of Ikbalpur. She distributed biscuits and kheer to 250 children. She also visits association Garamar School every Saturday for two hours. In this school there are few abnormal students as well. The children of this school also do yoga and meditation and eagerly wait for Sangita. She has worked in many villages. She says people use to celebrate the festivals with alcohol but now people celebrate the festival with enthusiasm, belonging and with respect for each other. Sangita likes to celebrate festivals with the villagers and kids. She is happy to see the awareness among the villagers about good health, education and respect for each other. In the winter season 150 sweaters for kids and 150 pairs of footwear were distributed in Sangna village. In government school of Chanar, blankets and biscuits were distributed. Patriotic singing competition was also held. 500 saplings planted near Bajasini mandir. She is very happy to work in the villages and she explains that she wants to reach more and more people.

Aanchla Jhawar has dedicated her life towards Educating Children

Sangita Agarwal bringing awareness amongst Tribal Children

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Ahmednagar(Maharashtra):

She is spreading the knowledge of The Art of Living since last 10 years. She organizes health camps especially for children and women. A temple of knowledge has been built by her initiative.

In this temple of knowledge she teaches Art of Living courses.

In the year 2014, she lost her 19 year old son. She decided to train the youth for a better life by teaching them yoga, meditation and pranayam. She has taught NCS to more than 4000 children.

In the village of Wanbori, one hall has been built for the villagers to meditate. The hall has been built in Mahesh Manot School. She takes Nav Chetna Shibir for the women as well as empowers them by sharing the different rural development programs conducted by AOL.

She gives talks on Ayurveda, Naturopathy, to maintain healthy lifestyle and hygiene.She distributes free food and books to the orphanage every year. She has organized free heath camps that havebenefited around 1500 to 2000 people.

She pays the school fees of many poor children. She takes workshops of handwriting in the schools and has benefitted 1200 students. She encourages the children to participate in art and craft competitions. She took an initiative to build a water tank in the village of Bavari, as there is scarcity of water.

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