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APPEAL FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEFYour donation is critical to the success of the Nouvelle Vie Haiti Youth Corps. All of our international trainers and project staff donate their time or discount their services, allowing 90% of our funding to go directly towards supporting the training and service of the Youth Corps, the implementation of their trauma relief and agricultural projects, and to the Haitian staff that support them.
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The Art of Living’s sister organization, the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), has launched the Nouvelle Vie Haiti Youth Corps as a sustainable, Haitian-led solution to the January 12 earthquake.
Nouvelle Vie Pilot Program: April 12 – 28. 2010
April 12-28, IAHV launched a pilot program for the Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps. Sixteen of our strongest Haitian youth leaders were selected from 5 regions of Haiti out of a pool of 350 of our previously-trained YLTP graduates. Four Art of Living teachers joined them along with Nouvelle Vie’s program advisor and permaculturist.
The JPHRO Petionville Golf Club refugee camp holds 40,000 earthquake victims living in makeshift tents. On this camp, the Nouvelle Vie team taught 360 people the Breath Water Sound and 240 the Art of Living Course. As part of their course, participants initiated a camp-wide clean-up. The simple act of picking up trash created a sense of dignity and ownership over their lives for the participants.
To launch the full Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps, we need your help.
“Things have completely changed in the communities where we teach. Through the breath, people see what is their true nature, their true existence. When they do the breathing, there’s a total silence. It’s like the world is no longer the same. It’s totally changed the mentality [of the people we teach], their way of thinking, their way of acting. Wow.”
– Samson Berlus, age 20, Les Cayes, Haiti. Candidate for Nouvelle Vie Youth Corps.
“I lost my house, so I stay on the streets with my husband and my children. It’s so difficult now to sleep at night with the rains, and it’s so stressful… When I do the breathing exercises, I forget that I sleep on the streets. It’s like I have no difficulties in my life. I finally feel that I have a clear mind. I feel calm. I am able to think.”
– Maila Villard, age 41, Port au Prince. Art of Living Course participant.
- Contact
Uma Viswanathan, Director, Nouvelle Vie Haiti
617-645-1428 or haiti@iahv.org