The Peaceful Revolution > Social Work

Social work was started in the early 1980’s under the name of Bahujan Hitay, meaning “for the welfare of the many people”, recalling the exhortation of the Buddha to his disciples after the first rainy season retreat, to go out and help as many people as possible. Two major projects were started:

  • hostels which provide accommodation, food and a supportive environment for children enabling them to attend school, when otherwise for poverty or other reasons they would not be able to.
  • community health and education centres in slums, especially for young children and mothers.

Those running these activities are all practicing Buddhists, meditating and studying the Dhamma regularly. The work enables them to feed back into society and constitutes their practice of the Buddha’s teaching on right livelihood.

Financially this work has been made possible by the Karuna Trust (set up by members of FWBO in UK in the early 1980’s) and more recently many friends from Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Korea, as well as by grants from the central, state and local government authorities in India.


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