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WOMEN’S GROUPS JOIN VOICES TO SHOW STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
During the COVID-19 lockdowns in India, women’s groups played a very pivotal role in taking a...
Celebrating 15 Years with YOU!
Happy New Year! Thanks to your support, Yoga Gives Back enters its 15th year with...
Join our dream to conquer the DIGITAL DIVIDE! Women Rise Digital Center
This pandemic deepened the digital divide in India. Disadvantaged rural children, especially...
Introducing Pallavi
Pallavi lost her father when she was only one year old, and then her mother a few years later,...
CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD TODAY
YGB starts funding 800 students through Project Shale, to combat learning delays and gaps for poor...
Meet Naveen
Naveen came to Deenabandhu Children’s Home when he was 3 years old. His father had deserted the...
GETTING CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL IN INDIA
Schools in India are opening after 18 months of closure and the season of festivals brings hope of...
“I WAS ABLE TO FOLLOW MY DREAMS WITH YGB’S SCHOLARSHIP”
Introducing Nagaraj: Nagaraj is an art student whom Yoga Gives Back’s SHE program has been...
Fighting Rape Culture in India
SHE Scholarship students develop innovative Protection Circle to curb rape and violence against...
EDUCATION IN CRISIS: An important conversation with Kayoko Mitsumatsu of Yoga Gives Back and NGO Partner Prajna Neelgund, of Deenabandhu Trust in Karnataka, India
The closure of india’s government schools for 18 months has led to learning loss and increased...
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Welcome Joss Jaffe (California) to YGB Global Ambassadors Team
"As a child learning about yoga, meditation, chanting and mantra music of India I was instilled...
Yoga Gives Back (YGB) Celebrates 15 Years of Empowering, Inspiring, and Changing Lives
Yoga Gives Back heads into it's 15th year celebrating record support in 2021 from Global...
Welcome Michelle El Khoury (Pennsylvania) to YGB Global Ambassadors Team
“Yoga is a powerful vehicle for creating a fairer and more equal world and, women and children are...
YGB Welcomes Dr. Shyam Ranganathan as YGB Advisor
Yoga is marketed as an exercise in narcissism, but it’s the very opposite. That’s why I am so glad...
Welcome Anjali Deva (California) to YGB Global Ambassadors Team
”I support YBG because I believe we should give back to the motherland of these teachings that...
YGB Welcomes Dr. Chris Chapple as YGB Advisor
India has given so much to the world, materially (fabrics and jewels), culturally (great food,...
Welcome Forrest Yoga (Australia) to YGB Global Ambassadors Team
India has enriched our lives on so many levels , as well as being the home of Yoga , we have been...
Simple actions lead to monumental changes.
For the last fourteen years, we have proven this truth with your support. If you are...
Welcome Makiko Kobayashi (Japan) to YGB Global Ambassadors Team
“I have benefited a lot from my daily yoga practice and feel very fortunate. And under the...
Power of Our Community!
Thank you! What an amazing year of giving, inspiration and growth despite the pandemic.Your...
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GETTING CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL IN INDIA
Schools in India are opening after 18 months of closure and the season of festivals brings hope of resuming business and work for many families devasted by the pandemic and lockdowns. However, hopes of returning to school for many children in India have been...
Fighting Rape Culture in India
SHE Scholarship students develop innovative Protection Circle to curb rape and violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. In recent article in BBC by, Geeta Pandey outlines a series of horrific rape cases since 2012 that illustrate the...
EDUCATION IN CRISIS: An important conversation with Kayoko Mitsumatsu of Yoga Gives Back and NGO Partner Prajna Neelgund, of Deenabandhu Trust in Karnataka, India
The closure of india’s government schools for 18 months has led to learning loss and increased child marriage, child labor, child-trafficking, social delays and more. Millions of children in India have been out of school for the last 18 months due to Covid-19. ...
Your Gratitude is Empowering Women in India!
India's gender gap index slipped from 112th to 140th among 156 nations during the Pandemic. Women's labor force participation fell to 22.3%, income is 1/5 of men's. Our fund recipients are living this harsh reality. After Covid-19 lockdown and Cyclone Amphan's...
COVID WARRIORS: GIRLS GROUP MEMBERS TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR COMMUNITIES AGAINST COVID-19
The girls group members of Yoga Gives Back's SHE (Scholarship for Higher Education) program - have been playing a crucial role in protecting their communities from the potentially devastating effects of COVID-19 infections by raising awareness around preventative...
HOME VISITS THAT AIM TO PROTECT GIRLS AND THEIR EDUCATION DURING THE PANDEMIC: UPDATE FROM OUR NGO PARTNER NISHTHA
During India's second phase of Covid-19 in 2021, some of our beneficiary girls tragically lost their parents. Not all of those lost succumbed to COVID-19, as some them had been suffering from other ailments that they could not receive treatment for due to the COVID-19...
YGB Honoring Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus with the 2021 Namaste Award
” DEEP IN OUR HEARTS, WE all recognize that the old dreams of the economic theorists have been exposed as fairy tales. The existing capitalist engine is producing more damage than solutions. It needs to be redesigned, piece by piece — or replaced by an entirely new...
Dalit girl rape and murder: Indians protest over girl’s forced cremation
By Salman Ravi via BBC News Protests are continuing for the fourth day over the alleged gang rape, murder and forced cremation of a nine-year-old girl in the Indian capital, Delhi. The girl's parents have accused a Hindu priest and three others of attacking her when...
How You Can Help the Children of India Orphaned by Covid
Twin sisters Tripti and Pari, who lost both their parents due to the Covid-19 coronavirus, play with their toys at a relative’s home in Bhopal. Photograph: Gagan Nayar/AFP/Getty Images A recent study of the true pandemic death toll in India estimates coronavirus...
India’s true pandemic death toll is likely to be well over 3 million, a new study finds.
Cremations of those who died from the coronavirus in New Delhi in April. Credit...Atul Loke for The New York Times By Karan Deep Singh via The New York Times The number of people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic in India so far is likely to exceed three...
Coronavirus: The Indian children orphaned by Covid-19
Children have been severely affected by India's second wave of coronavirus By Vikas Pandey & Andrew Clarance via BBC News, Delhi Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to Covid in April. Days later, at a different Delhi...
Congratulations Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to get Olympic Laurel
Congratulations Dr. Yunus who inspired the birth of YGB fourteen years ago. We are honored to present Dr Yunus with our Namaste Award 2021 at the Annual Gala, 7p.m. PDT, Saturday, November 13th, 2021. Save the date. Details will be coming soon....
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