The Prem Rawat Foundation
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The Prem Rawat Foundation[1] is a 501(c)3 public charitable organization[2] registered in California, U.S.. It is dedicated to promoting and disseminating the lectures, speeches, art, music, humanitarian efforts, and public forums of Prem Rawat, known also as Maharaji, and publishes a wide range of communication materials to present his message to people around the world. This message, according to the Foundation's publications, is a message of peace and personal fulfillment[3], which is made available in more than 88 countries and 70 languages, and is entirely supported by voluntary contributions and the sale of related materials.
According to its website, the Foundation spearheads or supports humanitarian initiatives. It regularly holds free medical clinics in India and, in 2005, made contributions the United Nations World Food Programme, allowing it to feed for a month more than 9,000 persons in Indonesia, 6,000 in Pakistan, 2,000 in Niger as well as 4,500 schoolchildren in Guatemala. Its website declares that it has sponsored a food aid program for schoolchildren in Sri Lanka and made a donation to the Houston Food Bank, which made it possible to provide three meals a day to 8,500 victims of Hurricane Katrina for three months. Other initiatives discussed on its website include the development of a facility in northern India where hundreds of free meals will be provided daily to adults and children year-round. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ The Prem Rawat Foundation website
- ^ Guidestar Charitable organizations report
- ^ Maharaji on Peace Retrieved Jan 2006
- ^ Humanitarian initiatives of The Prem Rawat Foundation
