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December 2011
26 December 2011
Empowering women leaders in India
In November 2011, AMURTEL Romania’s president and executive director travelled to India to offer project management training during a 10 day capacity building program for women missionaries “Expanding our Potentials”. The training was designed for workers of Women’s Welfare…
25 December 2011
Philippines Flood Relief
In Cagayan de Oro the AMURT team distributed food rations to 400 families at Lower Balulang, Cagayan de Oro City.
5 December 2011
Still more radio play and new photos
“Make Me Humble,” a track from the CD “As the World Spins Around” was played on WCVF-FM, a college radio station in Fredonia, New York (they are the station of SUNY Fredonia). An Internet station based in England has also added tracks from “As the World Spins Around” to their…
November 2011
9 November 2011
Adventures in Sovata for a new batch of Familia AMURTEL kids!
In the month of July 2011, a new batch of young boys from Familia AMURTEL had their first chance to participate in annual tradition of Outward Bound adventure camps in Sovata, Transylvania.
October 2011
26 October 2011
Progressive Utilization Theory is a solution of the current economic crisis: Moti Techchandani
Progressive Utilization Theory is a solution of the current economic crisis: Moti Techchandani
18 October 2011
NC Prisoners Find Balance with Yoga
For almost ten years, Ananda Marga volunteer Steven Landau has run a weekly yoga program at Wake Correctional Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The voluntary two hour class includes Ananda Marga instruction on yoga postures, philosophy, kirtan, and meditation. Once a…
13 October 2011
Some more radio play for “As the World Spins Around”
Two tracks from the CD “As the World Spins Around” were played on KZGM in Cabool MO and WAZU Peoria IL. The tracks that were played were: As the World Spins Around and It’s the System. Live streaming available at www.mykz88.com (broadcast times Wed 10/12 at 10am CT and…
11 October 2011
Community Supported Agriculture budding in Poieni!
This summer, AMURTEL Romania started up a Community Supported Agriculture project at our farm in Poieni, near to our Panatau projects in the rural countryside of Buzau county. The project aims to increase the self-sufficiency of our Familia AMURTEL children’s home and Fountain…
4 October 2011
Prabhat Alloi
People living in the dry rural area surrounding the village of Dabar lack the necessary infrastructural components to achieve a decent standard of living. Prabhat Alloi Inc, a partner of AMURT, has been in West Bengal since 2008 working to combat problems including inadequate…
3 October 2011
Assoclic: Developing computer literacy in Panatau village!
“Developing Computer Literacy” is a project to offer access to education and to build computer literacy skills amongst disadvantaged youth and children from Panatau village, in Buzau county, Romania. AMURTEL Romania was selected by Ateliere Fara Frontiere during the Asococlic…
September 2011
29 September 2011
Bucharest Kindergarten Successfully Renovated!
Special thanks to our principal funder, “Amici Nel Mondo”, AMURTEL Fonte Nuovo, AMURT Italia, Neohumanist Foundation (Norway), AMURT UK, the Ananda Marga River School (Australia), AMURTEL USA, our friends in Salorno, and many private contributions from individual sponsors.
3 September 2011
Samburu Community Assistance Project – Kenya Drought Relief Update
Our first distribution was on October 13, 2011, in Swari, a community in the Nariminimo location in Samburu East District. The village relief committee had selected the neediest of various vulnerable groups such as but not limited to pregnant and lactating mothers, orphans,…
August 2011
8 August 2011
Volunteering at AMURTEL- a creative learning experience
As Fernando Aranda was absorbed painting a radiant sun smiling over a scene full of blissful children from around the world, animals, bees, even a lizard, people young and old passing by the outside of AMURTEL’s “Gradinita Rasarit” kindergarten, stopped to watch in…
June 2011
May 2011
23 May 2011
Earth Day at Răsărit Kindergarten 2 (Mihai Bravu)
Earth Day has become an annual event at Răsărit Kindergarten, focusing on the ecological theme over several weeks. This year, the recycling chapter was covered, and the children learned about sorting trash through an interactive game. They also made…
22 May 2011
PROUT interview!
PROUT interview! alisamana May 17, 2011 I want to thank you for visiting my BLOG. This morning our guest was Apekshit, an electrical engineer by trait who feels very passionately about the economic conditions that we are facing today. Apekshit is a student and fan of the…
13 May 2011
Japan – Earthquake / Tsunami Relief Response
An 9.0 magnitude earthquake and a 10 meter high tsunami wave hit northeastern Japan at 2.46pm on Friday March 11. Thousands of people have have died and hundreds of thousands are affected.Members of AMURT & AMURTEL are in the coastal towns of Sendai, Tamajo, Shichigahama and…
April 2011
21 April 2011
Ravi Batra’s interview in PressTV
U.S. economist and author of ‘The New Golden Age’, Ravi Batra, says he believes that “There is something fundamentally wrong with the American economy” which does not let its huge deficit decrease.
1 April 2011
AMURT starts work in Nigeria
AMURT started working in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, in late 2010. We decided to focus on the health sector, as the indicators for maternal and child mortality are among the highest in the world.
March 2011
28 March 2011
Marius revisits the kindergartens after 12 years!
Our kindergartens in Bucharest have been practicing “inclusive education” since their inception 16 years ago – not only integrating special needs children within a the kindergarten setting, but also giving special attention to adapting the program itself to be accessible and…
26 March 2011
Romania – Youth and Childrens Progams
What happened to the children of Romania after the media spotlight faded?
24 March 2011
“Young Voices of Europe” project promoting Volunteerism
In January 2011, three of our young adults, that share the common background of having grown up in the AMURT and AMURTEL homes took part in the “Young Voices of Europe” project . The project promotes and celebrates the role of voluntary active citizenship amongst youth,…
13 March 2011
Japan Disaster 2011
1 March 2011
Nigeria – Community Health Program
In 2010, AMURT launched a program in Nigeria aimed at developing community healthcare systems and reducing the country’s maternal mortality rate, one of the world’s highest. Providing some of Nigeria’s poorest and most rural areas with proper health facilities warrants the…
February 2011
1 February 2011
Haiti: Cholera Outbreak Response
“Cholera is not endemic to Haiti, so people are getting very sick, very fast after contracting it,” explains Patrica Munday, AMURTEL’s program coordinator in Haiti.She is part of an AMURTEL medical team that travelled ecently to remote areas hit by the cholera epidemic, which…
January 2011
10 January 2011
Haiti: One Year Later
It has been one year since a massive earthquake rumbled underneath Port Au Prince-Haiti, bringing down half of the city’s buildings, and killing over 200,000 people. The aftermath was shocking, and the road to recovery would be long and hard. But hope lingered, as many…
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