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December 2013
14 December 2013
“Passing the Torch” – A taste of the grown-up world!
On the International Day of the Children’s Rights, November 20th 2013, thanks to a project organized by Terre des Hommes Foundation, twelve children from the Fountain of Hope participated in a special event. The project’s main goal was to facilitate the children’s in preparing…
November 2013
29 November 2013
No Food for All on Saturday November 30th
Thanks to everyone who came along for our BIG Thanksgiving delivery
13 November 2013
Vistara: Integration of young people leaving the care system
The children raised at the Familia AMURTEL project have grown up – and as a result, AMURTEL has also had to evolve and develop strategies to assist our young adults in the process of becoming well-integrated into society.
12 November 2013
AMURT responds to the emergency in the Philippines
Following the tragic events in the Philippines, with the occurrence of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Bohol and now a Super Typhoon (Yolanda or Haiyan), with local authorities fearing a high number of dead and displaced in the regions of Leyte, Samar, Cebu,…
12 November 2013
AMURT Responds to the Emergency in the Philippines
Following the tragic events in the Philippines, with a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Bohol and now a Super Typhoon (Yolanda or Haiyan), with local authorities fearing a high number of dead and displaced in the regions of Leyte, Samar, Cebu,…
4 November 2013
Grundtvig mobility to Valladolid Spain
Grundtvig project “Management of workforce integration”
September 2013
16 September 2013
AMURTEL Responds to Flooding in Colorado
With rains continuing to frustrate rescue efforts in Boulder and surrounding areas on Sunday, September 16, flood waters are increasing in and around the city. Eight people are now presumed dead with hundreds still left unaccounted for in the rural and mountainous regions…
9 September 2013
Great Weekend in Carbondale and Urbana
I was busy this weekend. I drove four hours to Carbondale in Southern Illinois on Saturday and then gave a very nice “house concert” in the Ananda Marga Center (402 South University, Carbondale). The next morning I got up and drove back to Urbana and led a “Songs of Peace”…
August 2013
14 August 2013
Outward Bound – to serve, to strive and not to yield
In July 2013 three EVS volunteers had the opportunity to take part in a four day adventure/outdoor education course in Sovata, Targu Mures, with eight young people of AMURTEL’s Rasarit project.
3 August 2013
Global Education Summit: Education and Global Transformation – July 14-18, 2013
The 10th global education summit took place, in the beautiful forest of Sweden where wild blueberries and strawberries were ripe for eating, where lotus blossoms bloomed in the clear lake and where the sun shone late into the night and rose early in the morning. Education and…
July 2013
26 July 2013
Haiti Update Summer 2013
Amurtel Project coordinator Kate Bass just sent this report on current Amurtel Programs in Haiti.
26 July 2013
AMURT (our parent organization) Global News Update
This month Peter Sage visits our child health project in Nigeria.
19 July 2013
An quick interview with two of our coordinators…
Peter Sage, Food for All DC’s Executive Director recently interviewed two of our site coordinators Kathy Winters and Graeme King about our program and what it means to them…
11 July 2013
Earth Day - Thematic Project
Nature surrounds us everywhere, and we must learn to live in harmony with it. The only way to live together with what surrounds us is love. It unites us through friendship and respect toward everything around us (people, animals, plants). From this…
6 July 2013
Himalaya flood relief
In June 2013, the North Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, some regions of Western Nepal and their adjoining areas experienced heavy rainfall that triggered devastating floods and landslides. Parts of Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, and some parts of Western…
June 2013
24 June 2013
Thanks to Interfolio and Clark Hill
We had a good turnout on Saturday from two local firms who came along to volunteer with us. Firstly the law firm Clark Hill brought around 10 folks with them (adults and kids). It was great to finally meet them as they’ve been great supporters of Food for All DC raising $800…
24 June 2013
Summer camps in Haiti
Before we determined if we could even offer summer programs for the children in the camps, parents let us know they had already enrolled their children and in fact had invited other families to participate as well- bringing the total to over 400 children. Regardless that we…
17 June 2013
Weekend update & we have t-shirts for sale!
We had a pretty good turnout on Saturday morning and delivered grocery bags to 46 households all over DC – thanks! Great to see some old and new faces!
11 June 2013
EVS “Rasarit” Project Volunteers in Action!
Starting in February 2013, AMURTEL received its first European Voluntary Service (EVS) Volunteers through the Youth in Action Programme. The Programme provides young europeans between 18-30 years old with the opportunity to go abroad and take part in a long-term (12 months) or…
6 June 2013
One day to shine…
Please go to http://domore24.org/charities/foodforalldc/ anytime TODAY and donate $12, $24 or more. You are directly helping folks who are short on food and are homebound also – these people need our help.
6 June 2013
Malaysia Tour Coming to An End
I have been in Malaysia for the past two weeks and participated in a big spiritual retreat where I gave a one hour concert. After the retreat I gave lectures in three places: Ipoh, Alor Star and Penang. I sold all the CDs that I brought with me and enjoyed the warm friendship…
April 2013
21 April 2013
Haitian Women Fighting Poverty
We were invited by an NGO to participate in a program setting up Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Banan, Haiti, a large community near the border with the Dominican Republic, about 9 months ago. This is a very different model from the more traditional micro finance programs we have…
21 April 2013
East Kenya: Working Towards Food Security
Toward the end of 2010 the United Nations declared a famine in the Horn of Africa, compounded by a tremendous number of refugees fleeing Somalia for East Kenya. I decided to return to Africa and see what AMURTEL could do to help provide support to the women and children in the…
19 April 2013
Tibetan Economic Self Sufficiency
Once a year, Amurtel volunteers go to Nepal to shop for our annual fundraiser, the International Boutique. It has been bothering me that we would come, shop and leave—without doing anything for the local people. Our shipper Tashi is Tibetan and his family lives in Jampa Ling,…
March 2013
8 March 2013
Newspaper article: An American brings healthy food to Bucharest
This is an article that was written about our Community Supported Agriculture project “AMURTEL Social Garden” in Poieni. It was published on the front page of the “Romania Libera” newspaper on July 10,2013.
February 2013
19 February 2013
Concerts, Yoga and Meditation for the Seniors
Technically I am a senior now, but what I mean in the title of this post is that I have been giving music concerts to the residents at the Champaign County Nursing Home for the past two years. I recently gave a performance there and it was well received. Here is the set-list…
January 2013
27 January 2013
At the Wellness Fair
Our community participated in a Health and Wellness Fair held at the Marketplace Mall in Champaign this past weekend (January 26). We displayed our books and CDs and spoke to people about yoga and meditation. I recently held an introduction to meditation workshop and started…
27 January 2013
Radio show on Spiritualty and Activism
I was recently interviewed on the World Labor Hour, a weekly radio program on WEFT, a community radio station in Champaign, IL. I spoke about meditation and also about economic alternatives to capitalism. My music was also played as the lead into the talk and during a break…
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