OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP

 

 

Ammachi Charities

Ammachi - Amritananda Mayi Ma is the "hugging saint" from India. "Amma" or "Mother" as she is known to her devotees, offers the embrace of the Divine Mother through sponsoring many much-needed charitable projects.

Project Ganesh

Project GANESH is co-founded by a friend and supporter, Richard Stocker. Project GANESH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the USA. Project GANESH aims to:
* Rebuild, rejuvenate and rededicate temples upon which villages in India rely. In the process Project GANESH will help to preserve some of Hinduism’s most important but neglected monuments for future generations of devotees. Project GANESH selects temples for support based on community need, spiritual or historical importance and the degree of urgency to save the temple.
* Support the villages around the temples with development funds and sustainable projects to help develop a vital economy that will be able to support the temple as well as the community.
* Strongly support the educational needs of India’s youth, particularly in rural areas. Project GANESH will actively support educational institutes at all levels, with a particular focus on the educational development of girls.

AIWC ALL INDIA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE
About AIWC
The All India Women's Conference (AIWC), one of the oldest voluntary organization in the country, was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins, an Irish Lady, who had made India her home. AIWC's original concern was women's education but gradually it took up various social and economic issues concerning women, such as Purdah, Child Marriage, Trafficking, Women's Property Rights etc.
Today, AIWC has over 1,00,000 members in 500 branches all over country. It is recognized as a premier organization working for Women's Development and Empowerment.

Activities include: Education, Socio Economic Activities, Micro Credit Program, Health Family Welfare and Polulation Management, Rural Energy, Legal Awareness, MCM Library, Scholarship Program, Study on Declining Sex Ratio,Work with Leprosy affected People, Institution Founded by AIWC, and AIWC in International Conference

FREE ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC IN WEST BENGAL This extremely poor, rural area of India, where even the most basic medical needs of the population have gone undiagnosed and untreated, is now the site of a training and treatment facility for acupuncture: the Acupuncture Institute and Free Community Clinic of Ananda Nagar (AIAN). AIAN provides education, training, and facilities to local and visiting medical personnel. Its Free Clinic administers successful treatment for both acute and seriously chronic conditions, markedly enhancing the overall quality of life for its patients.

 

10,000 TEN THOUSAND GIRLS

Offers education and employment opportunities for 10,000 Girls in rural Senegal, enabling them to develop as self-reliant and capable women, through a self-sustaining organization run by the girls themselves.

Support Positive Change in Haiti by supporting the documentary film production about the women of Haiti who are taking positive steps to transform the dire conditions they live in. "Potomitan" is a story of struggle, courage, resistance, and democracy. Through powerful, compelling stories/lives of five courageous Haitian women, Poto Mitan will inspire and educate solidarity, global justice, and women's activists around the world and challenge them to think critically about their own work.

Give a life-changing gift to help end poverty in Haiti through Fonkoze, Haiti's Alternative Bank for the Organized poor. You can give the gift of literacy, business skills, health training, human rights training and environmental protection.

RAWA - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.

RAWA supporters of Santa Barbara

California Residents for Health Care for All

SB 840 is a bill written by Sheila Kuehl which wisely, compassionately and economically provides health care for all Californians. As a healthcare practitioner (Licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist), qigong teacher and healer, I have seen so many people suffer for lack of healthcare insurance. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world which doesn't provide healthcare for its citizens.

Omkareshwar Ashram School

This school provides for children who would not otherwise receive an education. It is offered "in the spirit of selfless service which is being rendered under the Patronage of Sri Anandamayi Ma." Jyoti Mandir, the temple in Encinitas, California which offers ongoing kirtan and hosts visiting kirtan artists, has a special relationship with the school, holding an annual fundraising event and visiting the school. You may make a donation by sending a check to: (Please specify that the donation is for the school)

Paramananda Yoga & Vedanta Institue
1030 Avenue of the Americas, 6th. Floor
New York, NY 10018

WSPA World Society for the Protection of Animals - ACHIEVING BALANCE Traditional Medicine in the 21st Century - Ancient practices and new trends & technology meet as Traditional medicine moves into the 21st century to embrace an earth-friendly philosophy.

Often in my practice of Chinese Medicine, patients would request that their herb formulas be free of animal products, as the media usually focused on the use of animal parts or extracts in their reports on Chinese herbal medicine. A majority of those of us who practice Chinese medicine have avoided using medicinal substances which are made from animals. If the mistreatment of animals and preservation of species is a concern of yours, you may want to visit the WSPA website.

Women's Global Green Action Network (WGGAN) cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders for a thriving planet. By providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities, WGGAN helps women strengthen their alliances and leadership abilities in order to develop a collective agenda for impacting environmental and social change at the local, regional and global level.

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