BAPU IS A STRESS-BUSTER FOR JAILBIRDS

The Mahatma’s lofty ideals are a balm to many bruised minds serving sentences in state jails

Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation are organising Gandhi Peace Examination and other reformation programmes in jails. This year, about 1081 jail inmates appeared for Gandhi Peace Exam. Feedbacks of prisoners are overwhelming. Around 3,000 inmates will appear for the exam and reformation programmes such as meditation, yoga, AIDS awareness, adult education are planned to be held in the jails and films like 'Gandhi' and 'Lage Raho Munnabhai' will be screened for about 15,000 inmates throughout the year..

15,000 JAILBIRDS ON THE ROAD TO REFORM…

1,081 jail birds from 14 jails of Maharashtra will appear for Gandhi Peace Examination during Gandhi Jayanti Week

Increasing violence in the society has made it pertinent for the youth to be introduced to Gandhiji’s teachings of honesty, non-violence, conflict resolution and peace. Keeping this in mind, every year Mumbai Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Research Foundation organise a Gandhi Peace and Non-violence Examination, in schools, colleges and jails of Maharashtra. This year, on the occasion of 142nd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and International Non-violence Day on October 2, around 1,17,000 students from 1,052 schools and 147 colleges of Maharashtra are expected to appear for the examination. READ MORE...

BUILDING PEACE & NON-VIOLENCE BRICK BY BRICK...

 6 lakh students and 1,081 jail birds will participate in a Week long variety of programmes from October 2  to mark the 142^nd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and International Non-violence Day

Even after his assassination in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings and values regarding non-violence are an inspiration to ordinary people as well as to those who went on to become eminent personalities and world leaders. Recently, Anna Hazare resorted to a non-violent satyagrah by going on a fast and drew the world’s attention to the effectiveness of Gandhiji’s mode of protest, carried out in the largest democracy in the world. READ MORE...