ABOUT OUR CHARITY
Heart Of Living Yoga supports children in vulnerable communities
in Sri Lanka, Brazil, India & the U.K. They focus on education, nutrition, wellbeing and cultural preservation, working through grassroots partnerships creating sustainable outcomes for children, their families & communities.
The most extraordinary thing about the charity is that everyone is a volunteer. They have no salaries or property overheads, so every penny raised goes directly to help the children. They follow the motto of their founder, Padma Devi Sumananda,
“I give, You give, We all receive”
Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, the charity runs educational projects providing good nutrition along with extra schooling to help children progress to higher education. Once the children reach university, the charity continues to support them financially & provides them with laptops. It also assists women-led households, elders without family support, and children with special needs, and is piloting a project to improve learning outcomes for children under 5 who are sadly suffering from malnutrition.
Brasil
Amazon Cultural Project
In Brazil, Heart of Living Yoga supports multiple educational projects to empower indigenous children in the Amazon rainforest to conserve their cultural heritage of healing plants, tribal languages, dance, arts & crafts and traditions, and they have established an educational ecological resource centre in the forest that’s used by schools and universities.. They also built Jhenifer’s Library in the Chapada, and support a community children’s after school project in Rio de Janeiro
India
In India, the charity partners with Freedom School to support slum communities, providing extra education, equipping new classrooms and medical camps when needed. The children’s homes are by the river and susceptible to flooding, and the charity helps out all their families at those times with emergency hot food, warm blankets, dry rations, clean water, tarpaulins and medical help. They also support another amazing School in the poorer part of Dehradun, which educates children from 4 different faiths side by side, fostering inter-faith harmony in the community.
U.K.
In the UK, the charity offer free “Heart Days” to people under stress, including sessions tailored for NHS workers, carers, school children & teachers, as well as ever popular community Yoga & Sacred Music Festivals. All the money raised by the events organised by Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation, such as training courses, retreats, pilgrimages, festivals, satsangs & kirtans, all of it goes to the children.
Overall, their work focuses on supporting children in need with education, nutrition and community wellbeing through grassroots partnerships in long-term projects to empower children and communities to reach their full potential.
You can see news of all their projects here
www.heartoflivingyoga.com/blog
and you can offer help or donate here
www.heartoflivingyoga.com/donate
knowing every penny goes to the kids.