Impact

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