Projects

This page records details of community projects in the Sahaja movement and their fundraising needs.
Edited by Doris Verez and John Noyce.


BELLAVITA TOUR 2012
A group of 6 contemporary Sahaja bands will play 9 concerts in ten days in seven different European countries. The tour starts in Milan on April 21st and then heads up to Germany, Switzerland, France, England, Belgium and finally Holland. Our aim is to reach young people who would not normally come into contact with Sahaja Yoga and give them the chance to get their realization.
Project Co-ordinator: Finbar
Fundraising: http://www.indiegogo.com/Bella-Vita-European-Tour-2012
http://bellavitatour2012.info/


ECUADOR
The tour will start the 25th of June making small programs in universities' halls in Quito (capital city) which are for free and other local organizations. The 1st of July we will have the main Public program in the City hall of Quito, because we are a non profit organization, the cost is 2500 US dollars. Also the City Hall will allow us to advertise in their big banner with Mother's picture and the information of the main program. We only have to pay 250 US dollars. The second week we'll have programs in 2 small cities by the coast called Guayaquil and Cuenca. There the yogis will deal with local organizations to have auditorios for free. We will end our tour around 9th of July.
Contact: William Rivera
Fundraising: the total cost we need to fundraise is 2750 US dollars.
http://realize108ecuador.blogspot.com/


SAHAJA LIBRARY in association with Sahaj A-Z
This project maintains web-based libraries of videos and audios of Shri Mataji's talks and of Sahaja videos; and also distributes these materials to Sahaja yogis worldwide.
Project Director: John Noyce
Fundraising: occasional, via paypal through chipin
http://sahaja-library.blogspot.com


SAHAJA RADIO
The radio is an international project paid for by individual donations. The renewal date is in May. We are starting early the fundraising this year to be sure we have enough funds by the limit date. The renewal fee is $480. Today there are around 600 songs played (many more are added continuously). In the last 30 days, the radio was started 7200 times. Total number of hours were almost 3600, that is around 120h per day by people from 100 countries. If you enjoy the radio and want to keep it going, you can purchase a gift certificate from the hosting company toward the renewal: https://store.live365.com/orders/orderform-giftcert.live. For "Recipient's E-mail" enter contact@sahajayogaradio.org
http://blog.sahajayogaradio.org
Nb: Fundraising for 2012 has been successful.

D-I-Y community fundraising
1. You need to create
- a blog: blogspot or wordpress
- a fundraising account with ChipIn or similar.
- a Paypal account (a personal account in your name is easiest) to receive the contributions.
2. Create your ChipIn event with target amount and end-by date.
3. Get the code for the ChipIn widget and paste it on the side panel on your blog.
4. Publicise your project here, on facebook and elsewhere.

(JN)