February 2010 — Food for People (FFP) in Tasarpu, Nepal has been receiving some very positive attention lately from district government leaders and the national press.
At a conference on February 3, 2010, the Dhading District Development Committee (DDC), which governs the village of Tasarpu, invited representatives from Premsagar Foundation Nepal, which runs the Food for People program, to give a presentation about the program's activities and impact. Read More
February 2010 — A grant of US$50,000 from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) will help provide a two-week supply of bottled water for 42,000 people in Haiti; distribute purification sachets to produce 13 million gallons of potable water to communities where none is available; and distribute oral rehydration solution and salts (ORS) to treat 125,000 children and adults at risk of severe dehydration and water-borne illnesses. Read More
February 2010 — The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) gave US $25,000 to sponsormulti-day eye clinicsin seven cities December 2009 through January 2010 that providedeye care free of charge to over 13,500 people in India.
Almost 10,000 people received prescription glasses, over 10,500 were given eye drops for infections, and more than 1,700 were diagnosed with cataracts and referred to hospitals for further treatment. Read more
January 2010 — Within days of the earthquake in Haiti, The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) made a donation of US$50,000 to provide immediate food aid for survivors.
TPRF teamed up with one of its ongoing partners, Friends of the World Food Program. The World Food Program (WFP) was able to begin delivering food within 24 hours of the disaster, since it has an already-established aid operation in Haiti, long ranked as the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. With stores of ready-to-eat food and trained staff already in Haiti and in the nearby Dominican Republic, WFP has now delivered rations to over 200,000 people in and around Port-au-Prince. Read more
October 2009 — A $25,000 grant by TPRF is helping St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital (SJJEH) to provide eye care for 30,000 children in an area of the world where blindness is ten times higher than in the West. Chairman of SJJEH, John Talbot, said, “The continued, generous support of The Prem Rawat Foundation this year will permit the St. John Eye Hospital Group to expand and improve our much-needed services for the children of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.” Read more
September 2009 — TPRF has made grants to Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Centre and ActionAid International to help many of the 650,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pakistan affected by the country’s recent internal conflicts. Dr. Saman Yazdani Khan, Regional Director for Shirkat Gah, states, “It will ease the discomfort and desolation of their unwelcome situation.” Peter O’Driscoll, Executive Director for ActionAid, said, “This work is powerful. And, without your support, it would not be possible. Thank you.” Read more
August 2009 — Charity Navigator awarded TPRF a Four-Star rating for sound fiscal management. President and CEO of Charity Navigator, Ken Berger, wrote TPRF that this rating indicates “that The Prem Rawat Foundation executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way and outperforms most other charities in America. This 'exceptional' designation differentiates The Prem Rawat Foundation from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust." Read more
July 2009 — Prem Rawat was given the title of “Ambassador of Peace” for the province of Basilicata, Italy, after addressing a distinguished audience at an event called “Peace: Human Heritage.” He was invited by Basilicata President Vito de Filippo, who said in his introduction at the event, “We look forward to this high level of thought from Prem Rawat. Tonight an important seed will be planted that we will nurture and grow, for this is a land of peace.” Read more
July 2009 — Thanks to a grant of US$30,000 to the African Children’s Feeding Scheme (ACFS) by The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF), 500 of the poorest students at the Emndeni Junior Secondary School in Soweto, South Africa, will be receiving nutritious lunches. Executive Director of the ACFS, Sister Rejoice Nkutha, wrote, “This will provide nutritious food to 500 children in Soweto, thus improving their quality of life. We also thank Prem Rawat for his message of peace to people around the world and providing essential humanitarian aid to the people in need.” Read more
May 2009 — On May 23, at the invitation of Mayor Tain-Tsair Hsu of Tainan, Taiwan, Prem Rawat was awarded the key to the city and spoke to an audience of 800. “The Peace Ambassador has finally arrived in Tainan City,” said Mayor Hsu, “and we have to collaborate with him to contribute to peace and harmony in this world. We have to trust in peace. We cannot wait for peace to descend. We have to have the confidence in ourselves that there is a source of peace within us that is not only for ourselves but for everyone in this world.” Read more
April 2009 — TPRF gave a $20,000 grant to address a dire shortage of clean water in Haiti. Over 7,000 people will be helped over the course of the coming year. Linda Pascotto, President of TPRF, says, “Our hearts go out to the children and people of Haiti, who suffer from such severe malnutrition, dehydration, and disease. It is part of our mission to help provide human beings with the simple basics in life—clean water to drink, to cook with, to bathe in, and basic nutrition—in hopes of living a better life and with dignity.” Read more
March 2009 — The Prem Rawat Foundation has given a grant of $20,000 to the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF), its second grant in two years, to provide food for over 1,000 people in a landfill area of Phnom Penh, where children spend their days scavenging for food. Read more
February 2009 — Agrigento and Mazara del Vallo have joined Corleone in recognizing Prem Rawat’s international efforts for peace and awarded him honorary citizenship of their cities. Giornale di Sicilia reported: “In his addresses Prem Rawat expresses an idea of peace as a ‘new essential need,’ which is fundamental for relationships between people and a reality existing within each individual.” Read more
February 2009 — TPRF has made a grant of $25,000 to help the internationally known WaterAid charity continue its projects throughout Asia and Africa to provide people access to safe water and proper sanitation. Read more
January 2009 —The Prem Rawat Foundation donated $50,000 to sponsor five eye clinics in poor, rural areas of India during November and December, 2008, with its partner, Premsagar Foundation India. Read more
TPRF Funds Breakfast Program for Elementary School Children in the Yucatán —TPRF has extended its work with Compartimos Bienestar y Salud Para Los Niños Maya I.A.P. in Mexico to provide a breakfast program for the 59 students of an elementary school in the Yucatán, who arrive at school hungry because their families face severe poverty. Read more
TPRF Gives US$25,000 to Reduce Blindness in Rajasthan, India —TPRF has made a grant of $25,000 to ORBIS UK, a beneficiary of the 2008 Lord Mayor of the City of London’s Appeal, to support ORBIS UK and the Lord Mayor’s Childhood Blindness Programme in India. Read more
TPRF Gives US$20,000 to Provide Eye Care for Thousands in Gaza — TPRF has made a contribution of $20,000 to help St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital continue providing care in conflict-ridden Gaza. The only charitable provider of eye care in Gaza, St. John is open to all patients, regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. Read more
TPRF Gives US$15,000 Grant to Provide Clean Water to 60 Schools in Pakistan—TPRF has made a contribution of $15,000 to the Rotary Club Lahore Mozang, which will add $5,000 in matching funds, to provide clean drinking water for 60 schools in the Punjab region of Pakistan serving approximately 20,000 elementary through high school students. Read more
TPRF Provides US$40,000 to Feeding America for US Hurricane Victims —TPRF has contributed $40,000 to Feeding America, formerly named America’s Second Harvest, to provide truckloads of food to help people returning to their homes in devastated areas of Texas after Hurricane Ike. Read more
TPRF Gives Grant of US$10,000 for Permanent Water Wells in Niger —TPRF has made a $10,000 grant to the Sierra Vista Rotary Club Charities in Arizona to aid 40,000 Nigeriens by providing sustainable and permanent sources of clean water at in Niger, West Africa. Read more
TPRF Provides US$4,500 to Bring Prem Rawat’s “Words of Peace” in Native Peruvian and Ecuadorian Quechuan Language —TPRF has donated US$4,500 to Mountains of Hope (Montanas de Esperanza or MdE) to translate and produce DVDs, CDs and text materials to bring Prem Rawat’s message of peace to 20,000 indigenous people who live in the northern highland areas of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Read more
TPRF Donates US250,000 to Build "Food for People" Facility in Rural Nepal —TPRF is donating $250,000 to build and maintain a sustainable "Food For People" facility in Tasarpu village, Nepal. Premsagar Foundation Nepal, a charity seeking to relieve Nepal's poor, will spearhead the project. The Tasarpu center will provide nutritious hot meals year-round to approximately 500 children. Read more
The Prem Rawat Foundation Donates US$10,000 for Disabled in Niger —TPRF has made a grant of $10,000 to provide food for more than 750 disabled women and children in Niamey, Niger, who are in various educational and training programs. Mme. Mahadi Zeinabou Sangaré, coordinator of the program, said that the grant will enable women and children in the program facing abject poverty to “stay in the NGO center rather than beg for food in the streets.” Read more
TRPF Gives Grant of US$10,000 for Permanent Water Wells in Niger —TPRF has made a grant of $100,000 to Community Water and Ecological Sanitation Care (CWESC) to provide 10 impoverished communities with potable water and proper sanitation essential to eliminating debilitating diseases associated with contaminated water. The grant is the third in a series that will help a total of 23 communities and nearly 100,000 people in Ghana. Read more
TPRF Gives US$40,000 to America’s Second Harvest to Aid U.S. Midwest Residents Caught in Floods —The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has granted America's Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network US$40,000 to provide food and water to those stricken by recent flooding in the Midwest. America's Second Harvest, the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States, will use this grant to work closely with local food banks to bring food and water to those affected by floods, many of whom have been forced to evacuate their homes. Read more
TPRF Provides US$15,000 for People Disabled by 8.0 Earthquake in China —The Prem Rawat Foundation has donated US$15,000 to the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) to provide food and bottled water for survivors of the 8.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated southwestern China’s Sichuan Province on May 12. CDPF is a respected charity that specializes in attending to the needs and rights of disabled people in China. They were quick to respond to the staggering affects of the earthquake that has left almost 70,000 dead and more than 370,000 injured. Read more
The Prem Rawat Foundation Donates US$10,000 for Disabled in Niger —The Prem Rawat Foundation has donated US$10,000 to the Koulawa NGO organization in Niamey, Niger, to provide food for more than 250 disabled women and children, who are in various education and training programs. Read more
The Prem Rawat Foundation Gives US$50,000 for Food Aid in Haiti —TPRF has offered a US$50,000 challenge grant through the Facebook “Causes” page to help thousands of people at risk of starvation in Haiti due to the recent dramatic rise in food prices. TPRF’s challenge to Facebook members is to raise an additional $50,000, for a total of $100,000, which can supply food for 60,000 people for one month. Read more
TPRF Donates US$100,000 for Disaster Relief in Myanmar — The alarming casualties in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) from Cyclone Nargis continue to rise on a daily basis. With a grant of at least US $100,000, TPRF is partnering with Friends of the World Food Program (FWFP) to help the UN World Food Programme (WFP) bring immediate aid to the hundreds of thousands of survivors who have been stranded without food, shelter, or potable water.
On Friday, May 9, at 4:00 PM local time, WFP became one of the first agencies to be allowed to deliver aid directly to the people rather than through the government of Myanmar. WFP will be providing lifesaving food assistance for 630,000 people for six months, until the next harvest in October/November. Read more
$20,000 Grant from TPRF to Support Prison Telecasts
TPRF has donated $20,000 to the Maryland-based Correctional Education Association (CEA) to underwrite the costs of telecasts on the Transforming Lives Network (TLN) that present Prem Rawat’s message of hope and the possibility of personal fulfillment to U.S. prison populations.
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$26,000 Grant from The Prem Rawat Foundation Aids Flood Victims in Ecuador
TPRF has donated $26,000 to Montañas de Esperanza or Mountains of Hope (MdE), a local non-profit in northern Ecuador, to provide relief to flood victims in the coastal village of Santa Lucia. The grant will supply 32 tons of vital food supplies to feed 1,500 families (c.7,500 people) for one month. This will be one of the largest deliveries of aid to flood victims by a non-government agency on the Ecuadorian coast to date.
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The Prem Rawat Foundation Provides Clean Water Systems in Mozambique
TPRF made a significant contribution to the Joaquim Chissano Foundation (FJC) to provide clean water systems for about 11,000 people in Zitundo in Mozambique.
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Prem Rawat’s Message of Peace Requested by Indigenous People of South America Prem Rawat’s award-winning Words of Peace presentations are being translated into several dialects of Quechua, the modern-day derivative of the ancient Inca's language, which today is spoken by indigenous populations of the South American continent. Leaders in several Quechuan villages in Ecuador have requested DVDs featuring Prem Rawat’s message in their own language after events introducing it were held in the mountain villages of Tucara, La Esperanza, Aqualongo and Otavalo, Ecuador. Read more
TPRF Grant Aids Recovery of Flood Victims in Mexico
Last November, The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) made a grant to Compartimos Bienestar y Salud Para Los Niños Maya I.A.P. to aid people affected by the massive flooding in the Tabasco area of Mexico. Over 150 families have now been helped with much-needed clothing, and 40 local farmers have been helped to plant new crops. Read more
TPRF Contributes Food Aid to Kenyan Refugees The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) responded quickly to aid victims of the violence that erupted following the December 2007 elections in Kenya. A significant contribution was made to the Friends of the World Food Program (FWFP) to help the UN World Food Programme (WFP) provide food for the hundreds of thousands of Kenyans who were displaced. Read more
TPRF Funds Breakfast Program for Aboriginal Children in Taiwan A grant from TPRF will provide nutritious breakfasts for 530 aboriginal children attending 14 primary schools on islands and in remote mountain areas of Taiwan. The program is offered by the Eastern Culture Foundation (ECF) and the Eastern Charity Foundation. CEO of ECF, Kuo Shiang, Chang, expressed “grateful appreciation” to TPRF for joining ECF “to accomplish this task together.”
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TPRF Provides Safe, Clean Drinking Water to Schools in Thailand The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) made a significant contribution to the Betterment of Life Foundation in Thailand (BoLF) to provide clean, safe drinking water to more than 2,500 children attending 12 schools in remote areas of Thailand. Read more
The Prem Rawat Foundation Provides Clean Water Systems in Mozambique
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) made a significant contribution to the Joaquim Chissano Foundation (FJC) to provide clean water systems to about 11,000 people in the remote area of Zitundo, Maputo province, Mozambique. The project will construct seven new sources of drinking water, rehabilitate one existing water system, and train the communities in local management to ensure an affordable and sustainable supply of clean water.
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The Prem Rawat Foundation Provides Disaster Relief to Mexico's Flood Victims
TPRF is partnering with the Mexican nonprofit organization Compartimos Bienestar y Salud Para Los Niños Maya I.A.P. to deliver survival kits to stranded families in isolated areas that government agencies and other relief organizations have so far been unable to reach.
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The Prem Rawat Foundation’s Eye Clinic Earns Physicians’ Praise
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) held its fifth eye clinic for India’s poor and received high praise from attending physicians. Read more
The Prem Rawat Foundation Brings Food and Water to Children in Cambodia
TPRF has made a grant to the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) to bring food and water to more than 300 children in three centers for children of very poor families on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the capital. One child at the CCF shelter explained that she had felt like a flower that no one had cared for but that “now this same flower is taken to a new place where it can get water and care every day.”
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TPRF Funds Disaster-Relief Efforts in Indonesia
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has made a significant donation to the Indonesian Development of Education and Permaculture (Yayasan IDEP) Foundation to assist more than 2,000 people displaced by the Sumatra earthquake in districts north of Bengkulu in West Sumatra, Indonesia.
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The Prem Rawat Foundation Brings Disaster Relief to Indonesia In the last few months, the Foundation has responded to the plight of villagers whose homes had been destroyed by earthquakes and landslides on Java and Sulawesi in Indonesia. Read more
Breakfast Program for Indigenous Australian School Children Funded by The Prem Rawat Foundation Exceeds Expectations
One year after beginning a three-year school breakfast program started in late 2006 for indigenous children on Mornington Island in Australia, reports indicate that school attendance and performance has improved, and the number of children at the breakfasts has doubled.
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