The Art of Living’s journey
- Incepted in 1981
- Present in 155 countries
- 10,000 centers across the world
- 35,000 Instructors globally
- 370 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 33 rivers and thousands of water bodies across Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in India
- 71 million trees planted in 36 countries
- Over 22 lakh people trained in Sri Sri Natural Farming
- Around 512 tons of garbage removed in the ‘Clean Yamuna’ Campaign
- 40,500 cleanliness drives conducted by volunteers
Rural development in India
- 52,466 hygiene camps conducted, benefiting 7,869,900 people
- 27,427 medical camps organized benefiting 577,400 people
- 2,03,220 rural youth trained
- 55 model villages developed
- Built 3,819 homes, 16, 550 toilets, 1, 200 bore-wells, and 1000 biogas plants
- 16,500 solar lamps distributed with nearly 1,00,000 beneficiaries
- 8 solar microgrids in India set up for a rural energy program
- Over 27,000 youth trained in various vocational skills over 14 years
- 5,000 rural women trained in vocational skills
- Over 623 self-help groups formed in the areas of food processing and bag making
- 4 community water filters and 78 bore-wells provide drinking water to 45,000 people in 267 villages
Prison rehabilitation
- Programs running in 60 countries
- 7,00,000 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) - 1800 prisoners and 1300 reformed armed insurgents given vocational training under Project SRIJAN
Free education
- 435 schools benefitting over 58,000 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