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Support Amma's Farmer Relief Project, come and hear Wah!
Where? Lux Studios 456 West 18th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues, New York City
Indian dinner served from 6:30 to 7:45pm, music starts at 8pm.
Reserve your space at www.ammaswahnyc.eventbrite.com
Musician and spiritual seeker WAH! and her band create a unique mix of pop, world music, and reggae. Wah! has created extensive music products for yoga and meditation communities, and has performed at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center, Yoga Journal Conference and the UK Yoga Show. After touring with Krishna Das for three years, WAH! took time off to work with producer Herb Graham, Jr. on OPIUM, a dreamy R&B collection of songs about life. LOKAHA and JAI JAI JAI showcased her unique combination of hip production with mantra; UNPLUGGED captured her heartfelt English songs in a live setting. www.wahmusic.com
More about Amma’s Farmer Relief Project:
Due to economic pressures leading to irresolvable debt associated with continually failing crops, many farmers have been committing suicide by drinking the very pesticides that no longer work on their crops. Especially in South India, where the growing rise of climate changes and other factors, crop failure has become more and more common causing suicide to spread like an epidemic amongst the suffering farmers. For example, in 2006 in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra alone, there were 1,044 reported suicides – one every eight hours.
In the spring of this year, after discussions on the issue with Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Amma found herself pledging 43 million dollars to address this problem. She admitted later the large dollar amount she had pledged surprised her, but in the moment she had felt drawn to offering at least that much to help the situation. As part of the pledge, Amma offered that the MA Math would launch a massive project to provide aid and hope for the future for these struggling farmers.
“The problem cannot be solved through economic packages alone,” Amma told the Maharashtra CM. “What is needed is social and spiritual interventions so that the farmers realize that suicide is not the way out. In fact, it only further aggravates the problem for the families.” Feeling immense compassion for their suffering due to their unfortunate circumstances, Amma felt counseling and education could really help them get through to the other side.
On September 27 2007, the Ashram inaugurated two programs responding to this dire situation: Vidyamritam and Amrita SREE. These projects focus aid on the places with higher farmer suicide rates – Maharastra, Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. These two initial relief projects are aimed at lessening the financial strain placed upon such agricultural families.
Vidyamritam - Educational Scholarships
Through Vidyamritam, the Ashram is providing full scholarships for free education to 100,000 children (ages 10 to 15) of farmers living below the poverty line. Many of the beneficiaries are in fact children who have lost one or both parents to suicide. The children receive a monthly stipend until they finish their education, subject to their performance in their studies.
Since the announcement of the project, thousands of applications have been received and they continue to pour in daily. Because of the huge response, the number of beneficiaries continues to grow.
As an extension to this project, the MA Math is conducting awareness programs to inculcate life skills for personality development. A newsletter containing articles, stories and discussion forums to further facilitate the intellectual and mental growth is also being received by all the children. Furthermore, special advanced-education camps and symposiums on environmental preservation are being conducted.
Amrita SREE (Self-Reliance Education & Employment)
Through Amrita SREE, the Ashram is providing free vocational training to 5,000 different groups of women from impoverished agricultural families. Though many of these women have now incurred their husband’s debt due to suicide, the MA Math has been supporting them in building their own businesses through vocational training in various fields, including tailoring, making snacks for small scale industries, electrical repair, and making paper products. After completion of their training, the women are given the necessary start-up capital to begin small, home based businesses.
Website: www.amma.org/humanitaria...roject2.html
Link to Online Flier: newyork.tribe.net/event/Wah...0847bfe005
Where? Lux Studios 456 West 18th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues, New York City
Indian dinner served from 6:30 to 7:45pm, music starts at 8pm.
Reserve your space at www.ammaswahnyc.eventbrite.com
Musician and spiritual seeker WAH! and her band create a unique mix of pop, world music, and reggae. Wah! has created extensive music products for yoga and meditation communities, and has performed at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center, Yoga Journal Conference and the UK Yoga Show. After touring with Krishna Das for three years, WAH! took time off to work with producer Herb Graham, Jr. on OPIUM, a dreamy R&B collection of songs about life. LOKAHA and JAI JAI JAI showcased her unique combination of hip production with mantra; UNPLUGGED captured her heartfelt English songs in a live setting. www.wahmusic.com
More about Amma’s Farmer Relief Project:
Due to economic pressures leading to irresolvable debt associated with continually failing crops, many farmers have been committing suicide by drinking the very pesticides that no longer work on their crops. Especially in South India, where the growing rise of climate changes and other factors, crop failure has become more and more common causing suicide to spread like an epidemic amongst the suffering farmers. For example, in 2006 in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra alone, there were 1,044 reported suicides – one every eight hours.
In the spring of this year, after discussions on the issue with Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Amma found herself pledging 43 million dollars to address this problem. She admitted later the large dollar amount she had pledged surprised her, but in the moment she had felt drawn to offering at least that much to help the situation. As part of the pledge, Amma offered that the MA Math would launch a massive project to provide aid and hope for the future for these struggling farmers.
“The problem cannot be solved through economic packages alone,” Amma told the Maharashtra CM. “What is needed is social and spiritual interventions so that the farmers realize that suicide is not the way out. In fact, it only further aggravates the problem for the families.” Feeling immense compassion for their suffering due to their unfortunate circumstances, Amma felt counseling and education could really help them get through to the other side.
On September 27 2007, the Ashram inaugurated two programs responding to this dire situation: Vidyamritam and Amrita SREE. These projects focus aid on the places with higher farmer suicide rates – Maharastra, Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. These two initial relief projects are aimed at lessening the financial strain placed upon such agricultural families.
Vidyamritam - Educational Scholarships
Through Vidyamritam, the Ashram is providing full scholarships for free education to 100,000 children (ages 10 to 15) of farmers living below the poverty line. Many of the beneficiaries are in fact children who have lost one or both parents to suicide. The children receive a monthly stipend until they finish their education, subject to their performance in their studies.
Since the announcement of the project, thousands of applications have been received and they continue to pour in daily. Because of the huge response, the number of beneficiaries continues to grow.
As an extension to this project, the MA Math is conducting awareness programs to inculcate life skills for personality development. A newsletter containing articles, stories and discussion forums to further facilitate the intellectual and mental growth is also being received by all the children. Furthermore, special advanced-education camps and symposiums on environmental preservation are being conducted.
Amrita SREE (Self-Reliance Education & Employment)
Through Amrita SREE, the Ashram is providing free vocational training to 5,000 different groups of women from impoverished agricultural families. Though many of these women have now incurred their husband’s debt due to suicide, the MA Math has been supporting them in building their own businesses through vocational training in various fields, including tailoring, making snacks for small scale industries, electrical repair, and making paper products. After completion of their training, the women are given the necessary start-up capital to begin small, home based businesses.
Website: www.amma.org/humanitaria...roject2.html
Link to Online Flier: newyork.tribe.net/event/Wah...0847bfe005
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