Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Guruji's visit to the flood affected areas of purnea




Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, on September 25, visited different relief camps in the flood-affected areas of Purnia and Madhepura in Bihar to bring solace to the survivors and take stock of the relief operations undertaken by the Art of Living.
Sri Sri walked in knee-deep water for 3 km from Jankinagar in the Purnia district to Murliganj in the Madhepura district to interact with the victims. Sri Sri, who arrived in Purnia in the morning, counselled the victims taking shelter in the Jankinagar Phulwari camp, where the Art of Living is taking care of nearly 5,000 people.
Later addressing a large gathering of 10,000 people from nearly 50 surrounding villages, Sri Sri advised them to maintain a positive outlook towards life despite the devastation. "Under these trying circumstances, make the best use of your stay in the camps. As it’s going to take some more time for the waters to recede and the rehabilitation process to materialise, utilise the time here to learn new skills," he said. He announced that the Art of Living would provide vocational training to women in the camps. It has already started training in tailoring skills at the Jankinagar camp. Sri Sri also said the Art of Living would start a campaign to teach reading and writing to illiterate people staying in the camps.
He extracted a commitment from the people not to practice female foeticide and to stop harassment of women. He announced that the youth of the area would be trained under the Art of Living’s Youth Leadership Training Programme so that they can shoulder the responsibility of rehabilitation in the area. Urging the people not to lose heart, Sri Sri cited the example of Nagapattinam, which was completely devastated by the tsunami in 2004, and now has been completely rebuilt. "See this devastation as the foundation of a new rebuilding," he said.
Many of the victims shared that they were feeling relieved after attending the trauma relief sessions offered by the Art of Living. Sri Sri also lauded the good work done by the Art of Living volunteers, particularly the doctors, who have come from different parts of India and abroad. Earlier in the morning, the District Magistrate of Purnia, C Sridhar received Sri Sri on his arrival.
The Art of Living has been carrying out a multi-pronged relief operation in the flood-affected areas of Bihar on a war footing. The Bangalore-headquartered NGO has already mobilised and dispatched relief materials worth more than Rs 100 million (US$2.2 million) to Bihar. It proposes to raise another Rs 400 million (US$8.7 million) for the rehabilitation of the victims.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Latest updates
Aol starts its trauma relief program at Malhanma village ,Trevenigunj blokck,Suppol. Its a mega camp where 12000 people are living . The camp is being manged by government . AOl volunteers have been invited to run a trauma relief program in this camp.
In our Banmankhi camp also 1200-1500 people are attending Navchetna shibirs and satsang.A very possitive change can be seen .
Great mail-The way Aol is working for flood relief
From: anilsinha.k@gfdr.orgTo: rana0601@hotmail.comCC: anilsinha.k@gmail.com; amitaa.sinha@gmail.com; ssinha75@hotmail.comSubject: RE: Chunni Di -- Salud !!Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:16:10 +0530
Wow, Ranaji, I did talk to her and if I remember right her name is Sangeeta Sinha...totally committed and fully involved...absolutely and without any doubt.
The world is really small ...what better example. And I am happy my photos have served some purpose.
I was indeed highly impressed by her Art of Living camp.
I do not know her personally and will be most happy to get introduced. It will be great if they and GFDR can explore mutual synergies in this hour of crisis, and work together.
And I can very appreciate your commitments, but trust you will do your bit anyways...which surely will go a long way.
More later and all the best,
Anil
From: Ranjit Varma [mailto:rana0601@hotmail.com] Sent: 18 September 2008 18:37To: anilsinha.k@gfdr.orgCc: anilsinha.k@gmail.com; amitaa.sinha@gmail.com; ssinha75@hotmail.comSubject: Chunni Di -- Salud !!
Namaskar Anil Bhai,The lady in blue sari is my niece Sangeeta, daughter of late Sushil Bhai Saab (Regent Cinema of Patna). If you all know her on a personal basis, then OK. But if not, and if she can be of any help in any way in co-ordinating any relief work, I can introduce you to her. Please let me know!! Sangeeta's younger sister Seema lives here -- very close to our home. By the way, two people from my team at work have left, and thus the load at work has increased. I am trying my best to squeeze out time to pay attention and do something fruitful for the calamity in Bihar -- frankly, haven't been able to do much yet!! The time is NOW, and I am just being unable to actually show some effective results -- talk doesn't help, actions do!! The image of Bihar here is another hurdle -- but "I am gonna keep pushing" ..................... Hope Bihar overcomes this calamity without too many bruises !!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Latest updates
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Water purifier installed at the relief camp giving 1000 lits of pure water per hour. Machine does not require electricity and works manually.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Guruji's appeal video for Bihar flood relief
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
AOL new interventions
Kumarkhand Madhepura district Aol volunteers reached Rehta , Lakshminagar, Bhavanipur ,Jorgaon and more than 500 families were provided food material,candles,clothes. 500 patients were treated by Dr. Lalita Raman.
At Banmankhi camp more than 400 tents were installed & baby food , torch , bedsheets were provided.
Rishividyadhar ji at relief camps
As part of its trauma relief programmes, Rishi Vidhyadharji, a senior disciple of His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is in Purnia to conduct trauma relief sessions and interact with the victims in the relief camps. Thousands of people attended his session when he visited the Phulwari camp today. They reported tremendous relief after attending the sessions, which included pranayama, breathing techniques and satsangs. The volunteers are also conducting trauma relief sessions in other affected areas.
Truck full of relief material from Kolkata left for Purnea
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Hats off to the yuvacharyas of Bihar
Todays highlights
- AOL volunteers and teachers Nitin, Dhananjay, Ranjan Pathak and others via Banmankhi,Kumarkhand reached Batani village in Madhepura under the guidance of COL Shahbaz of Madras Battalion.They reached 2000 people and distributed relief material.They said large number of people are still to be rescued.People are on the roof tops, trees and on temple roof and are not ready to leave their house.
- Dr Achuttamba who has come from West Bengal treated 750 patients yesterday. Today she also joined Col Shahbaz and reached Batani village with them and provided much needed medical aid and treated 600 patients.
- Yet another intervention of Aol volunteers was at Meerganj camp ,were 2000 people have taken shelter. There are 24 pregnant ladies and 250 children in this camp.The volunteers provided baby food , cloth and dry food in this camp.
- Aol volunteers and teachers Sanjeev Sharma , Susheel Singh with local organizers of Fabesganj reached Chatapur , Farbesganj with the army and distributed relief materials to more than 2000 people.
Doctor came from London for the flood relief
Dr Lalita Raman flew in to
Dr. Achyutamba is another lady doctor who has come from
AOL teacher Sanjeev Sharma ,Susheel Singh ,and local volunteers Anup ji and Gopal ji are at Sursar, Forbesganj where AOL volunteers along with Major Ritesh, visited Bheempur area and distributed Food, Clothes and Medicines to nearly 2000 flood victims. AOL also distributed relief at Chhatapur where about 2000 people were in need of food, clothing and medicines.
Jharkhand volunteers under the leadership of AOL Teacher Praveenjireached Purnea relief camp with a truck load of materials
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Water purifier being installed at one of Our relief camps and volunteers wearing life jackets getting ready for rescue operation
ART OF LIVING volunteers helping army in flood relief
Art of living volunteers with army started the flood relief operation in Narpatganj. They distributed relief materials, rescued people,helped in medical camp and installed a manually operated water purifier which can purify 1000 lt of water per hour.Priyajit ji (in yellow t-shirt) state relief coordinator with the INDIAN ARMY.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Tonight despatch and update
TONIGHT SCORPIO AND A TRUCK LEFT FROM PATNA FOR RELIEF CAMP WITH RELIEF MATERIALS . CHITRANJAN JI (AOL TEACHER WITH 5 YUCHARYA LEFT AT (9.08 a. m) with the following relief materials.
1. Bedsheet-1012
2.Gamcha/ north Indian towel-2000 (it is also used for covering body)
3.Saare-175
4.Biscuits-4 cartons -300 packets.
5.Plastic sheets-450 pieces (each piece is 10x16m)
6. Medicine-4 cartons
7. Baby food-450 box
8. Torches-1000
9. Imergency light-2.
Apart from this Praveen ji(Aol teacher from Ranchi-Jharkhand) reached camp with truck full of relief material (3 ton chura,Rice2 ton , Match box , clothes , medicine,jaggery 2 ton).
Sushil ji also reached the camp from Durgapur(WEST BENGAL) with relief materials(1 ton chura,1 ton puffed rice,medicines and lot of clothes)
Latest
Pics from the relief camp-the current situation
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Latest from relief camp
ZEE NEWS REPORT
'Art of Living' Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji on Monday appealed to people to contribute for relief operations in flood-affected areas of Bihar.
"At the time of such a national calamity, it is our duty to help the people of Bihar and exhibit the innate human values of love, compassion and service," he said.
The Bangalore-headquartered group has already mobilized relief materials worth Rs 10 crore for rehabilitation of the of the flood victims, a press release from 'Art of Living' said.
It will also raise another Rs 40 crore for the rehabilitation of the flood victims, it said.
SOURCE ZEE NEWS.com september3.
Kids out on door for flood relief

Today Art Excel students went out collecting relief material with two YES students, and they collected lot of things in a day.
Just ten kids collected in 4 hours
Match box- 2 Bundle (approx-50 pcs)
Biscuits -100 pcs.
Sattu -15 Kg.
Candle- 2 pkt.
Salt -5 kg
Chura- 112 kg.
Cloths
Gents- 3 Bundle
Ladies- 3 Bundle
Kids- 3 Bundle .
WELL DONE KIDS
Volunteers coming from all parts of India.
- 150 VOLUNTEERS ARE COMING FROM HYDERABAD.
- 20 FROM VISHAKHAPATNAM.
- VOLUNTEERS FROM BANARAS ARE GETTING READY.
- VOLUNTEERS FROM RANCHI TO REACH AT RELIEF CAMPS ON THURSDAY WITH TRUCK LOADED MATERIAL.
- JHARKHAND YUVACHARYAS TO REACH ON SUNDAY.
- VOLUNTEERS FROM DURGAPUR ARE REACHING WITH AMBULANCE AND RELIEF MATERIALS.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
The relief material truck left at 3
Another truck ready for despatch
- A truck is leaving for the relief camps . Priyajeet ji with 15 YUVACHARYAS will leave in an hour with following relief materials.
- Following Relief materials are being dispatched.
- Clothes
- SHIRT N PANT (pairs)-740
- SAREES N SUITS-350
- KIDS(sets)-682
- Bed sheets-200
- PLASTIC SHEETS ROLL -8 x40 METERS EACH
- CHURRA ,JAGGERY,MATCH BOX and BISCUITS PACKETS-670
- CHURRA LOOSE IN KGS-250kgs
- JAGGERY-150kg
- BISUITS-71
- SATTU-425kg
- POYHENE BAGS FOR PACKING-10000
- CANDLE-19 packets
- ROPE-35 kg
- SALT-5 0kg
- PUFF Rice-605 kg
- MATCHBOX-100 boxes
- SKIMMED MILK-600pouches
- SOAP-1000 pieces
- Hammer-6
- KNIFE-10
- Emergency light-4
- TORCHES-10
- BLADES-10
Monday, September 1, 2008
Relief maerial as required on31-08-2008
Sl. No. | District | Requirement |
01 | ARARIA ART OF LIVING PRESENT | (1) Tents. (2) Supplementary Nutrition for Children. (3) Supplementary Nutrition for Adults. (4)Polythene Sheets. (5)Medical Doctors, who can adopt camps. At the moment 45 camps with more than 30,000 people are running catering to parts of Araria and parts Supaul districts. The Headquarter for relief efforts is FORBWGANJ. It is accessible by road and also by rail. |
02 | SUPAUL | (1) Supplementary nutrition for children and adults. (2)Clothing. Polythene Sheets. (3)Medical doctors (4) Mosquito Nets. Supaul is The Headquarter of the district. It is accessible by road and rail via Saharsa. At the moment 38 camps are in place with around 55,000 people. |
03 | MADHEPURA | (1) Drinking water. (2)Dry Food packets. (3) Petrol/ Diesel in drums and Jerry Cans. At the moment 45 camps with about 35,000 people are running, but water is rising and it is not clear which dry areas will remain in the next one or two weeks. There is acute shortage of Petrol and Diesel even to run Generator and Motor Boats and Electricity is totally cut-off. Madhepura town is under water, but relief and rescue operations are being coordinated from the town. It is accessible till about half K.M before the town, where there is a College and relief material can be taken till this College, from where the administration will transfer them to the required places by boats. |
04 | SAHARSA ART OF LIVING IS PRESENT | (1)Volunteers for working in camps. (2) Supplementary nutrition for children and adults. (3) Medical teams. (4) Clothing. (5) Bedding. (6)Medicines for Children and Adults. At the moment they are running 44 camps with about 40,000 people. Saharsa is accessible by road and rail. |
05 | PURNEA ART OF LIVING IS PRESENT | (1)Clothing material. (2)Mosquito Nets. (3)Boxes for people to keep their belongings. (4)Medical doctors and medicines. (5)Supplementary nutrition for Children and adults. Purnea is the headquarter of the district as well ass headquarter of the division. At the moment they are running 21 camps with around 14,000 people, who have come from Madhepura district. Purnea is accessible by road and rail and it also has an Airport, which is controlled by the Indian Air Force. |
Immediate requirment
RELIEF WORKS REQUIRED AS ON 31-08-2008
| Sl. No. | District | Requirement |
| 01 | ARARIA | (1) Tents. (2) Supplementary Nutrition for Children. (3) Supplementary Nutrition for Adults. (4) Polythene Sheets. (5) Medical Doctors, who can adopt camps. At the moment 45 camps with more than 30,000 people are running catering to parts of Araria and parts Supaul districts. The Headquarter for relief efforts is FORBWEGANJ. It is accessible by road and also by rail. |
| 02 | SUPAUL | (1) Supplementary nutrition for children and adults. (2) Clothing. Polythene Sheets. (3) Medical doctors (4) Mosquito Nets. Supaul is The Headquarter of the district. It is accessible by road and rail via Saharsa. At the moment 38 camps are in place with around 55,000 people. |
| 03 | MADHEPURA | (1) Drinking water. (2) Dry Food packets. (3) Petrol/ Diesel in drums and Jerry Cans. At the moment 45 camps with about 35,000 people are running, but water is rising and it is not clear which dry areas will remain in the next one or two weeks. There is acute shortage of Petrol and Diesel even to run Generator and Motor Boats and Electricity is totally cut-off. Madhepura town is under water, but relief and rescue operations are being coordinated from the town. It is accessible till about half K.M before the town, where there is a College and relief material can be taken till this College, from where the administration will transfer them to the required places by boats. |
| 04 | SAHARSA | (1) Volunteers for working in camps. (2) Supplementary nutrition for children and adults. (3) Medical teams. (4) Clothing. (5) Bedding. (6) Medicines for Children and Adults. At the moment they are running 44 camps with about 40,000 people. Saharsa is accessible by road and rail. |
Details of DELHI CENTER
Details of DELHI CENTER
Centers listed below are: -
| Area | Address | Contact number |
| | C-9, Green Park Extn.(basement) | Ashok Ji- 26562606/26611097 |
| | Road no.-44, Community Center, pocket-24, | Naresh Agarwal- 9810111905 |
| | A-2/32, | Kirti Ved - 9818101370 |
| | H.No-37, Road No-2, East punjabi bagh. | Ms.Raj Rathee - 28316423 |
| | 12, Vigyan Lok, ND-92 | Rashmi Gupta – 9810379194. |
| | H-344, !st Floor, New Rajender Nagar. | Dr. Neena Madan – 9810013177. |
| Noida | | Sandeep Roy – 9310132484, 0120-3263718. |
| Gurgaon | C-36, Sushant Lok-I | Ruchi Rai - 9810722445 |
| | C-1/45. Palam Vihar, Gurgaon. | Mohan Ji- 0124-2368100 |
| | | Dr.D.P.Sharma- 9911101830 |
| | | Sandeep Rajwanshiji - 9210877771 |
| | | |
Timing of depositing goods in the centers is– 11am to 4pm.
We urgently require: - Anybody who wants to
Come forward to work and take flood relief seva
as a volunteer can give three names to us.
Area coordinators are specially requested to collect
things at their end and send it to their respective
centers as per list above. This has been arranged for their convenience.
Area coordinators are specially requested to collect things at their end and send it to their respective centers as per list above. This has been arranged for their convenience.
(Sangeeta Anand Ji
Mob. no.- 09811335074. (aolbiharrelief@gmail.com)
& Indu Sinha Mob.no-09818702578. (induaol@gmail.com) = In charge of "Bihar Flood Relief"
About ART of living
About ART of living
The Art of Living is a multi-faceted NGO with one of the largest volunteer bases and a presence in over 144 countries. We offer a stress-free, peaceful mind and healthy body through yoga, meditation and simple breathing techniques. Our service programs aim to strengthen society at the grassroots by strengthening the individual.Inspired by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Our vision is a stress-free, violence-free world where individuals have the opportunity to maximize their potential for personal and spiritual growth and contribute towards creating a One-World Family. We are committed to making life a celebration.
Contact us
CONTACT US
FOR ANY QUERY CALL US AT THE FOLLOWING24*7 HELPLINE NO.
09431021046,09431022020,09934358831.
09308243183.
YOU CAN MAIL US At mannigandhi@yahoo.co.in.
PLEASE CONTACT.
THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO RENDER SEVA AT LEAST FOR 7 DAYS.
ANJU -09334782622.RAJENDRA-09934358831
SUPPLY OF MATERIALS
Akhilesh Parmanu,
09204117060,09235554704,9934358831,.
DOCTORS WILLING FOR SEVA
RAJENDRA GANDHI-09934358831
PURCHASE TEAM
RAJENDRA-09934358831, BALAJI 09334050666,GUNANAND-09340132531.
LOCAL VOLUNTEER.
RITESH -09835052740,09304036714
MEDIA TEAM
SWAYAM PRAKASH 09006547065,VINAY ANAND-9431456629
PLEASE CONTACT for
Delhi contact-sangeeta anand
sangeeta.g.anand@gmail.com
09811335074
gurug.vedantham@gmail.com,+
Gujrat
Rita Katlawala
09374727116
Haryana-Mr. Avinash Sardana
9812040070,01664-257148
Jharkhand - Anil Poddar
mre_ranchi@yahoo.co.in, 94311 01313
Dhanbaad
Mukul Thakkar
09431316906
Jamshedpur
Navin Kr CHourasia
09431340030
Ranchi-Indira
09934504213
Karnataka
Rajesh Sharma
09343834040,08026645106
Kerala - Jayan
jgdjayan@gmail.com, 99954 36339
Maharashtra.
NAUSHAD Thariani
naushad108@gmail.com,
09892144252
Madhya Pradesh - Sujata Bansal
sujatabansal@hotmail.com
09329609946, 0731-4088081
Rajasthan - Darshak Hathi, ,
darshakhathi@yahoo.com
9929656798
Tamilnadu - N Shriram
shreegraphics@gmail.com
98840 88788
West Bengal - Abhijeet Halder
09433360029
abhijit.halder@vvki.net





























