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stand up & speak outThe Art of Living Events

The Art of Living & United Nations Millennium Campaign against Poverty and for Eight Millennium Goals – STAND UP & SPEAK OUT – 17th October 2007

around the globe by

The Art of Living in the World Record Breaking figure of

43.7 Million

6.5 millionpeople from


“All the nations of the world have come together and have set up 8 millenium develop-ment goals and it will remain just a dream if

you don’t stand up and participate. You know, we all have to join together to eradicate pover-ty, to bring primary education, health, hygien, care for the enviroment and make this world

a more beatiful place to be in.” - H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Art of Living International Centre

Bangalore 30 000 people

India


India

Minar Pimple, Deputy Director UNMC Asia

”I’m extremely happy, not because we are going to break the Gunnies World Record. The major record that we want to break is the record of broken promises and I’m happy that Art of Living under Guruji’s guidance has joined the United Na-tions Millennium Campaign to remind our leaders: No more broken promises! - No more broken pro-mises!” We are the first generation in the 6 000 years history, known history, of the human civi-lisation, who has the financial resources, all the intellectual capabilities, all the technology requi-red, to eradicate poverty, eradicate violence, era-dicate anything that we wish to eradicate and I’m speaking from the knowledge city of this country which is Bangalore, so it’s possible. What we re-quire is that great enthusiasm and spirit that you bring. We do not want people to engage in social work activities with long faces and that is why I was attracted to Guruji, because you do change with happiness because the change is for building happiness. That is what the change is for and that is the connecting link between us to work together.”

- Dr Richa ChopraAOL Stand Up Speak Out

Global Campaign Coordinator

”The spirit that we see here in the Bangalore Art of Living International Centre, the same spirit, is being replicated in over 51 countries and 26 states of In-dia and this has been happening since morning. And the message behind the spirit, something that was envisioned for so long, is to bring the partnerships of the government, the NGO:s and like Guruji’s said, the volunteers, the masses all together. So here we have the government, we have the NGO, one of the largest NGOs in the Art of Living, and the masses and the volunteers all together who have entered into a partnership, a partnership for development. The seeds have been sawn and now it is each one of our responsibilities to take this forward. I would like to thank Mr Chennai Ramu President Dalit Fe-deration Department of India, Mr Sudhakar Rao, Principle Secretary, Pitaji, Justice Shridhar Rao and Sri Anantu With this message and with this spirit of partnership I would like to thank all of us for being here and let us give us selves a big applause for being here and Unted Nations Millen-nium Campaign‘s deputy director, Minar Pimpleji, who has come all the way from Bangkok. He could have been anywhere today, any part of the world celebrating this campaign but he choose to come to the Art of Living Bangalore International Centre and Minarji: - This is just the beginning. We have al long journey to go. Thank you. Thank you Guruji.”


Andhra Pradesh 5 000 people Coordinators

Vikram Hazra

Chitra

Assam

18 123 peopleCoordinators

Pinki Hazarika

Ms Purabi Deka

Ms Nanda Sharma

Arunachal Pradesh 2 000 people Coordinators Ms. Debashree Dam

India

Assam Coordinator says: “This event is a real life experience of Poojya Sri Sri ravishankarji’s vision of a One World Family. The

whole world is getting united for one universal cause and this is amazing. We have got an opportunity to make our presence felt and rededicate ourselves to

this noble cause.


Bihar 10 000 people

Coordinators Mr Ritesh Raj

Mr Rai Giriraj Krishna

India

Health Minister of Bihar - Dr C M Rai, Professor Patna University -- Mr K K SinhaSecretary Young Men Christian Association

Justice Mihir Kr Jha, Patna High Court


Chandigarh 92 081 people

Coordinator Sumedha Talwar

Delhi127 920 people

Coordinator Dr Sanjana Sikri

India

Chandigarh rocks with Candle Light March, Youth Con-cert. His Excellency Governor of Haryana with Haryana & Punjab Cadres took the anti poverty pledge. 85,000 school & college students stood up against poverty Vice Chancellor of Punjab University took the pledge.

“20,000 people took pledge at the Parliament Street in the presence of Mr. Vineet Joshi, Communications Coordinator, South Asia, UNMC & Swami Pragyapad,

The Art of living.”

Chattisgarh 406 000 people

“A wave was created in the entire state, the intentions manifested. One joined the other and led to 400,000

people.” Says coordinator

Coordinator Vinod Tripathi


Goa 20 000 people

Coordinator Neela Navelkar

Haryana 198 889 people

India

Goa: 25,000 people in 30 events“The campaign was sheer grace flowing every

moment.” Said the coordinator Ms. Neela NavelkarChief Minister of Goa Shri Digambar Kamat took the

pledge Mayors of the cities lead the pledge.

More than 100 schools, 30 colleges, Govt. offices, factories, jails, banks & public gatherings (like the one in Bhiwani, which was the largest gathering in Hary-ana of over 10000 people) took the pledge with enthu-

siasm & a desire to make the change.

Coordinator Priyanka


India Gujarat 1 317 250 people

Coordinator Lavkesh Chaudhary

Millenium goal -1 Eradicate extremepoverty and hunger


Himachal Pradesh 54 434 people

Coordinator Kamlesh Barwal

Karnataka40 000 people

Coordinator Karthik

Radhika

Madhya Pradesh 236 225 people

India

Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh takes the pledge with …. Citizens Collectors & Commissioners support

the campaign

Coordinator Sujata Bansal


Coordinators Rajan Salalia

Bharat Bhushan

Jammu & Kashmir 100 000 people

India

103 Events in the entire state Human Chain at the busiest square

Manipur 10 031 people

Coordinator Mr S Roshnikumar Sharma

first time ever Events organised in remotest of locales


Jharkhand 109 909 people

Coordinators Jhuthika David

Ujjwal Bhaskar

Millenium goal - 2 Achieve universal primary education

India

Students in all the 85 DAV Schools stood up against poverty


Kerala 644 500 people

Coordinator Reiji G Nair

India

Successful campaign despite opposition from CPM


Maharashtra 573 706 people

India

Coordinator Neha Pendse

Malini Mulki

Millenium goal - 3 Promote gender equality and empower women

365 events in cities/ talukas/ villages of Maharashtra


Nagaland 1 595 people

Coordinator Ms. Mitra Agarwal

India

1093 Policemen stood up against poverty with the Art of Living


Punjab 275 000 people

India

Coordinator Anish Dua

Millenium goal - 4 Reduce child mortality

Deputy Commissioner directs all the 238 educational institutes to participate in the campaign with AOL &

UNMC


Meghalaya 5 170 people Coordinator

Mr Sujit Chakraborty

Orissa 46 000 people

Coordinator Shri Sidhartha Das

India

Coordinator Rekha Khunteja

Shobha Bagrecha

Rajastan285 433 people


India Tamil Nadu502 624 people

Coordinator Mr.R.Utthamraj

Over 200,000 people stood up in Coimbatore itself


India

West Bengal & Sikkim

24 785 people

Uttar Pradesh 225 000 people

Jamuna Church; oldest church of North India hosted the event in their school Tribal Women participated

Coordinator Darshak Hathi

Coordinator Pradut Bhattacharya and

Subrata Saha

Stand Up events held in the Presence of Swami Bhabanandaji Maharaj Ramakrishna Mission Sewa ashram, Indian Red Cross Society


India Uttaranchal 57 250 people

Coordinators Vikas Bhatt

Sudha Manral

Millenium goal - 5 Improve maternal health


Australia 6 614 people

Coordinator Lavinia Scott-Sellars

Stand Up event at the busiest square in Sidney with Hon Deputy Lord Mayor Tony Pooley, Hon Kevin Green MP (Minister for Community Services), Sydney City Councillors, representatives from AOL, OXFAM, Make

Poverty History.


The Total Count for Bahrain was 17,936! Words can’t describe the scenario and experience of Oc-tober 17, 2007; BUT IT WAS ALL GURU’S FLOW AND OUTBREAK! In the morning we had just the count of about 6,000. We didn’t get some of the approvals of the events until further that after-noon such as LULU Hypermarket at 3pm. It was 4 hrs in LULU, from 6:30pm-9-45pm, Ms.Samudra and I were able to reach out to 6,324 people and Mr. Suresh KV going back and forth to the city with T-shirts and bands. We tried to cover through small means, which resulted addition counts, due to the occasion of Ramadan and Eid. The Govern-ment did support the Cause but didn’t manage to unite events along with us due some issues in the 8 MDG. Therefore, every single count we managed was only by our AOL members and only the appro-val of the Government-in means of transportation by Guru’s Grace. Thanks to the Government con-firmation & UN letter, we were able to achieve the count. But all this HAPPENED because of Guru’s words echoing every step in our ear-WE CAN! JAI GURUDEV!

Bahrain 17 936 people

7 events

Coordinator Shobha Swaminathan


Brazil 145 people

Bulgaria 500 people

Millenium goal - 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other

diseases

CoordinatorKrassimir Benjamin


Bangladesh 50 000 people

Coordinator Sajeev Menon

Leading NGO – Brac Centre, Corporate in the SUSO events


Botswana 2 993 people Coordinators

Savita Sharma Kagiso Sebina

Canada 4 082 people

Croatia 1 348 people

Events in Ministry offices, Educational Institutes, Religious Organisations, Shopping Complexes

Coordinator Petra Wolfart

The whole project developed so spontaneously, yet so efficient. It all started with a meeting on September 6, and since then we had three coordinators, each contributing at a certain period, a great deal. Than we had a small core group of dedicated volunteers that sometimes worked for daily bread on day and did seva at night time. And when on the 17th a lot of other seva volunteers came to help the event run smoothly I was amazed how beautifully this project worked for me with few simple knowledge guidelines: 1. You are not required to do what you cannot do; 2. Do selfless service; 3. You are not the doer; 4. Do not see intention in other peoples mistakes; 5. Accept people and situations as they are; 6. Do your hundred percent….this guidelines helped me

a lot and made this an unforgettable experience.


Denmark 953 people

Concert with famouse soul singer Monique and friends and Sara Grabow and talks by CEO from UNDP in Scandinavia Jakob Simonsen and Ulla Sanbaek former EU parliament and priest danish national Christian church and famouse Actrees Anne Marie Helger ran the Event, read the pledge

and kept 2 minutes silence.

Coordinator Pia Maria Sorensen


Egypt 236 people

Coordinator Manal Karrara

Coordinators Ms Ashwini Prabha

Viren Kapadia

Fiji 16 708 people

Fiji was the first country participating in the SUSO around the globe as we are one of the first countri-es to see the Daylight All together 22 schools will be taking part in SUSO in Fiji. This accumulated to 16,708 standing up in Fiji through AOL organized events. students repeated the Stand Up pledge and also signed SUSO banners.. says the coordinator


Hong Kong

Coordinator Ricky ChowSylvia Luk

After the campaign I strongly felt Dedication will make thing happened.. Ricky Chow


Indonesia 3 794 people Coordinator

Jeffrey NgEvents held jointly with UN Ambassador for MDG H.E.

Erna Witoelar and MDG Foundations Indonesia

Japan 1 000 people

Coordinators Miwa Chieko

A lot of events were held in different parts of Japan under the UN STAND-UP and SPEAK-OUT campaign for poverty eradication. We wish to express our gratitude to GURUJI for having given this wonderful opportunity. SUSO Coordinator,

Japan I feel that the Stand up and speak out happening at various locations has spread this intention of eradicating poverty

more than just the count. Yuki Kanai, participant after the Stand Up event.


Millenium goal - 7 Ensure environmental

sustainability

Kenya 176 629 people

Lebanon 4 060 people

25% population in a small island Lamu took the anti poverty pledge. Poverty theme based Art competition, Soccer match 3536 people in 4 KM long Human Chain

Coordinators Dana C Chamseddine & Mr. Oscar Eid

Working for the campaign was an amazing feeling that we are rocked in the Divine Grace... says Dana C Chamseddine

Coordinators Miss Devna Pandit, Mr.

Peeush Mahajan Miss Versha Pragji & Monica Fauth


Mauritius 40 751 people

Mongolia 888 people Coordinator

Batbold Namsraidorj

Nepal 4 500 people Coordinators

Sashi Pandey and Mr. Kanchan Ghimere

Coordinators Dr. Vinod Allgo


New Zealand 2 000 people

Coordinators Christene Moore

Glenn


Oman 24 419 people

Coordinators Ajay Khimji

Anupama Naidu

25 SUSO Events Paintings Competitions in schools, Pledge taking ceremonies in temples, factories, Inter-continental Hotel wherein many dignitaries were pres-

ent to make the event a great success.

“ Divine Grace flowing was in every moment in form of tremendous support from all over. “ says coordinator


Panama 2 000 people

Coordinator Cristina


Poland 633 people

In Poland we organized 10 meeting in ten Polish towns. There came over 500 people. In Warso the capital of Poland we did also organize the Art of Living debate “How we can help the world” and tell about the “Euro a Day” project. Over 21 people decided to sponsor 21 children in India per

one year.

Coordinators Edyta Urbaniak Ilonka Pawluk


Philippines 1 650 people

Coordinators Vidyut Udaiver & Raja Gopal V

Millenium goal - 8 Develop a global partnership for development

Sri Lanka 111 575 people

Coordinators Luigi Manzi


South Africa

186 000 people

AOLF South Africa beat our target of 100 000 people. We reported 186 000 according to the UN deadline. This figure added to all the late reports that came in totaled 192 100 people that stood up. A big thank you to all the people & organizations that partici-pated and especially those who helped in making this

event a success.

Let us not forget why we stood on this day and let us remind ourselves and work towards solving the problem of extreme poverty that exits throughout the world. The millennium development goals can-not be forgotten and let us in our own little way help nourish these goals that work toward eradicating

extreme poverty.

Coordinator Anithra Jadoo


Switzerland 16 500 people

Taiwan

Coordinators Teresa Chang

Vitaliao

Coordinator Nathalie Schaller


Thailand 3 390 people

Coordinators Neelam Khatri

United Arab

Emirates 94 678 people Coordinators

Vanya Vora Rugmani Prabhakar

Zimbabwe

6 038 people Coordinators Bhamini (Harare)

& Bhaktiben (bulawayo)

USA

3 444 people Coordinators

Ajay Tejasvi Krishna Shastry

SUSO events held with Educational institutes, Prison inmates, factory workers

The UNDP UAE, First Lady of the country & the AOL UAE jointly take the movement forward in the entire country


Uganda 18 500 people

Coordinators Bhaskar Babu

Jayan

Suriname 10 000 people

Coordinators Ashok Acharya

Madhavi Acharya

Stand up events were organised in Educational Institutes, Corporate, NGOs, Government Organisations

Simple gatherings, silent walk, music concert and through many other events awarness was spread in

the country


United Kingdom

377 people

Coordinator Rashmi Fulchand


Press


Find videos, more photos and informa-tion about the Art of Living and the United Nations millenium campaign

against poverty and for the millenium development goals at:

www.youtube.com/artoflivingprojects

flickr.com/photos/standagainstpoverty

www.standagainstpoverty.org

www.millenniumcampaign.org

www.un.org/millenniumgoals

www.standupaolunmc.org

www.artofliving.org

www.iahv.org

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