Its areas of work cover disaster relief, poverty alleviation, prisoner rehabilitation, empowerment of women, campaigns against female foeticide, and environmental sustainability. These courses have been conducted for students and faculty, government officials, firemen, ex-militants, and prisoners.
This technique is a major part of Art of Living courses. Its stress-elimination and self-development programs are based on the breathing technique Sudarshan Kriya, meditation and yoga. Net assets at the beginning of July 2007 amounted to $US7.7 million. Īccording to the tax return filed by the American chapter, AOL Foundation had total revenues of $US5.5 million, an income of $US3.5 million from course fees and expenditure of $US3.4 million from July 2006 to June 2007. The Foundation operates as a charitable or a non-profit organization with chapters in many parts of the world. It's programs draw on Advaita Vedanta tradition and practices. Many of its programs are conducted through, or in conjunction with a partner organization, the International Association for Human Values (IAHV). The majority of the officers of the organization, along with most of its teachers and staff, are volunteers. Accredited as a United Nations non-governmental organization in 1996, it works in special consultative status with the UN's Economic and Social Council. Art of Living International Centre in BengaluruĪrt of Living Foundation has been an educational and humanitarian organization in the U.S.