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
