Children Welfare Projects - Omkarananda Ganga Sadan Patanjala Yoga Kendra

CHILDREN WELFARE PROJECTS
Children of Women in Prison:
In Support of Blamelessness by Blessedness

To all the Yoga Students who have donated money, clothes,
toys or cookies to the women and children at Haridwar Jail
By Dianne Brooks

I went out there with Usha on the 2nd January 2008 and helped her distribute everything.

It was a great day. As soon as we entered the female compound the children spotted Usha and rushed over to touch her feet and hug her. It was lovely... Usha giggled and stroked and pinched their cheeks and chatted enthusiastically with them all. The youngest girl accepted my hand and led us to the small playroom that Usha has successfully organized, furnished and equipped with some toys and games, all of which have been donated by her huge efforts and her Yoga students' generosity.

Through money donated and the cooperation of the jail, Usha is not only improving prison life for these innocent children, but she is also trying to raise enough funds (from us) to pay for the children to attend day school outside the jail. Usha is really making a difference and anything we can give will help greatly. Thank you Usha!

Love, Dianne Brooks.

Thanks to the generous help of our Yoga Students, we could donate a rocking boat to the children.
The children enjoying the rocking boat:

A piece of good news, the mothers have started to learn sewing and stitching. We feel
happy because this opportunity will help them to lead a better life in prison and also
when out of prison. The mothers showing their work proudly to one of our Yoga students:

200 note books and 400 pencils with erasers and sharpeners have been distributed to the prison inmates so that the uneducated inmates can begin to learn to read and write.

So now the well educated inmates have started to teach their fellow uneducated inmates. Some inmates have started to learn Urdu, others learn Hindi, yet some others have even started to learn English.

Constant effort leads to perfection!
Page from an inmate's Hindi notebook.

Taking an English Course in a prison!
Thanks to the students of Yoga!

Thanks to the students of the March-07 Intensive Course, we could collect enough money to buy a swing and a slide for the children in the jail, which have already been installed now. We hope the children will really enjoy them.

Yoga Students of the March 2007 Intensive Course
The slide and the swing has been installed in the prison!	See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil : the Three Wise Monkeys also sculpted by the same inmate
Feel the difference : Lord Shiva in the prison, sculpted by an inmate

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Omkarananda Ganga Sadan - Patanjala Yoga Kendra
Near Taxi-stand Muni-ki-reti, P.O. Shivanandanagar-249192, Distt. Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, INDIA - Phone: ++91 135 2430763 - Email: info@iyengaryoga.in