In the white afternoon sun and dust, about a dozen children run through the barbed wire gate of the camp...
North and Central America
Tropical Storm Isaac tore through Haiti this week, leaving a trail of uprooted trees, serious flooding and mudslides. The Amurtel...
This is the story of Elianne Marcelus, one woman in our microcredit program, funded by AMURTEL donations! “Before the earthquake I...
It has been one year since a massive earthquake rumbled underneath Port Au Prince-Haiti, bringing down half of the city’s...
We were invited by an NGO to participate in a program setting up Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Banan, Haiti,...
This trip consisted of visiting inspiring projects, attending security briefings at the UN and spending long (yet productive) hours in meetings with...
For almost ten years, Ananda Marga volunteer Steven Landau has run a weekly yoga program at Wake Correctional Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The voluntary two hour class includes Ananda Marga instruction on yoga postures, philosophy, kirtan, and meditation. Once a month, the prisoners are even treated to a vegetarian meal. Many participants have responded positively to the classes, reporting less aggression and higher levels of relaxation and physical well being.
An army of workers mobilize to reforest their dying watershed. They get paid too: people living in poor communities of the northwest Haitian Artibonite overwhelmed by the population influx following the 2010 earthquake.
“Many people ran away from the Port au Prince disaster to live in the province”, recalls Jacques Vilgar, “A community already in a very bad socio-economic situation became twice as bad.”