Helping Residents of the Gulf
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Anandagiri and One World Academy Begin Service Project for Gulf Residents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
Anandagiri and leaders from One World Academy will launch their "Healing the Gulf" Service Project in New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday, October 8. The "Healing the Gulf" Project is a 10-Day tour through the Gulf Region, stopping in Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Orange Beach, Mobile, Pensacola, Niceville, and Tampa. The Purpose of the "Healing the Gulf" Project is to reach out to communities and individuals who have veen impacted by the oil spill, and to provide material, educational, and inspirational resources to help people not just heal, but to create a New Beginning in their lives.
The Mission of HealingTheGulf.org
The people in the Gulf region have experienced a range of challenges, most notably Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and now the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The physical and economic damage is very real, and there are many organizations working tirelessly to help provide relief. |
pain and despair, facing an uncertain future. Our mission is to reach out to individuals and communities that have been hardest hit by these events, and to provide material, educational and inspirational resources, to help people not just heal, but to create a new beginning in their lives. |
Helping Residents of the Gulf
Being part of this project has already been an amazing experience. Seeing how people have come together to help each other is so inspiring. |
Truth is whenever I’ve done a service project with Anandagiri I go to sleep at night feeling like I got as much out of the experience as the people we were helping. |
Anandagiri, Allen, and other members of One World Academy, Matthew Ottenberg and Ashwin Srisailam, will hold community meetings and participate in service projects along the Gulf coast between Oct. 8 and Oct 16. They are planning stops in Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, Orange Beach, Mobile, Pensacola, Niceville, and Tampa.
One of the core principles that Anandagiri teaches is that while it's a fact that people may not have equal talents, equal education, equal money, or equal upbringing and family support, we all have an equal opportunity to be happy. Or as Shirley Hadley from Oceanside, California described how Anandagiri helped her, "His is honest about who he is. He doesn't have to be anything that he thinks someone else needs him to be. He taught me that I'm in charge of my happiness no one else. I'm responsible for my happiness and for my every moment of my life."
The tour of the Gulf will end on Oct. 17 in south Florida. For more information visit www.HealingTheGulf.org.
