Health Projects
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Overview
The Challenge
Good health is a first step towards a happy, fulfilling life. Yet vast segments of the world's population have neither access to proper nutrition nor medical and dental care, nor have they received even the most rudimentary education in achieving and maintaining good health. The 5H program of the Art of Living aims to resolve this challenge
The 5H program has already initiated projects in various areas of India, South Africa and Central and South America. The program includes organizing health care camps, which provide medical and dental care to the rural population. It introduces some age old simple practices which are good for human and environmental health in the long run.
Our Approach
The 5H program has projects in various areas of the world, organizing health care camps, which provide medical, dental and eye care to the rural population. Volunteers provide basic health care education. The 5H program addresses health issues not only on the physical level but also on the mental, spiritual and emotional level.
Our health initiatives
- Setting up medical centers in various rural villages
- Dental & eye care camps to treat and educate villagers about good dental & eye care
- Providing ambulances for remote areas.
- Initiating & running alcohol/tobacco/drug de-addiction and rehabilitation programs
- Mobile medical vans that travel through villages giving treatments and educating about health issues
- Special maternity vans for women, so that they do not have to ride on rough bullock carts and helps save the new born babies
Inter-Faith Summit For Prevention Of HIV/AIDS
“AIDS has no religion”, says Param Pujya Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar ji, founder of The Art of Living. AIDS might affect the physical body but it cannot hamper the spirit. The Art of Living organized a...
Stop Smoking, Start Living
A persistent thought to make a difference, inspired Dr. Vedamurthachar, and a few others to start a theme-based program, specially designed for smokers in 2006. "Somewhere I felt it was so easy to relate...
Free Medical Camp In Karnataka
"When a society is free from crime and violence and has respect for diversity, it is healthy. Similarly a body which is flexible and can adapt to different conditions is healthy. The signs of good health...
Preventing an epidemic
A camp to diagnose and prevent the onset of mass mosquito-related fever called Chickungunya. Timely intervention helped prevent the outbreak of an epidemic. Over 2,550 people benefited from medical treatment,...
Bringing hope to suicide-prone Vidarbha
The Art of Living has been working towards stopping farmer suicides in the Vidarbha, an agricultural belt in Maharashtra. Many of its farmers had taken to committing suicide owing to poor crop and rising...
Addressing Drug Abuse
Anti Drug Forum (ADF) In South Africa The ADF was set up in October 2005 to address the alarming drug abuse and addiction that has afflicted the community of Chatsworth in Durban as well as surrounding...
Finding alternatives for traditional stoves
Chulhas & Bio Gas In most villages Chulhas or firewood stoves are mainly used in many households for cooking. This generates a lot of smoke, which is one of the main causes for breathing problems amongst...
Discovering Agnihotra: an ancient secret to improve agriculture
There are many secrets in our ancient traditions, which are alive even today. Agnihotra is one of them. Literally, it is translated as healing fire (agni is fire, hotra means healing). Having its roots...
Drivers breathe easy to combat road stress
To increase road safety, The Art of Living launched the Road Peace campaign in association with the Children & Mother Welfare Society in February 2007. The General Directorate of Traffic supported...
Stress-elimination for house helpers
Breath-Water-Sound Workshop is an Art of living initiative that was organized for Filipino house helpers sheltered at the Philippine Embassy. About 70 workers from the Ahmed Mansoor Al Aali Group in Riffa...
Ghana village gets eye doctors after 8 years
After 8 years residents of the little hamlet of Keta got access to eye care. For these 700 Ghanains a one-day eye camp on 15 April 2011 was life transforming. “The people of this region are known to be...
Helping leprosy-affected in Singapore
Helping leprosy-affected in Singapore Entering the living spaces of the leprosy-affected, The Art of Living has turned around the lives of 44 residents of The SILRA Home. Since July 2007, The Art of Living...
First Art of Living course in Sudan
“We breathed our insecurities out of our systems and eased our minds through the techniques taught in the course.” Sudan had a brush with spirituality when the very first Art of Living Part I workshop...
Hands Up for Kids in Nairobi
It all began in 2009. Based in Lamu, Kenya as an Art of Living Part 1 and Art Excel teacher, Monika Fauth organized the Art of Living Stand Up and Take Action supporting the Millennium Development Goals....
Blood donation and eye camp in Kolkata
The camp took place on August 15, 2011 idea to hold such a camp was conceived by Sarika, Anoop and Dr Partho, who are volunteers of the Art of Living in Kolkata. It took place in collaboration with People’s...
Sustaining the Spirit of Life
Art of Living’s Interventions for Positive People “If all of us can take on this project to educate the youth, to educate youngsters about healthy living, positive thinking and a stigma-free, inhibition-free...
SSGMDA - Helping Doctors to Serve
Overview Location: Pan - india Duration: 2006 - Present “In being a part of the Sri Sri GMDA for the past six years, I have realized that people are ready to serve. They want to serve but do not have a...
Gram Panchayat with 90% addiction rate now bags award for de-addiction
Until 2016, addiction plagued the streets and homes of Lariapalli Panchayat, a group of nine villages and three hamlets in Odisha. Traditionally, the villagers produced and consumed country liquor. However,...
