Project Ahimsa Media Center
Company Overview
Project Ahimsa, a global effort to empower youth through music, was co-founded in 2001 by entrepreneurs Tejas Patel, based in Tampa, Florida, and Vijay Chattha and Nihal Mehta, based in San Francisco, California. Project Ahimsa (which means non-violence in Hindi) is dedicated to fostering unity and peace through arts exchange and education. By creating opportunities for youth to explore multi-cultural artistic expression, Project Ahimsa's founders discovered they could empower youth in isolated, poor and fragmented communities. The organization's programs, inspired by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, create and support projects that help disadvantaged youth in both the United States (California, Florida, and Colorado) and India (Ahmedabad and Kolkata). Project Ahimsa is based in San Francisco and operates under the auspices of the Patel Foundation for Global Understanding (www.global-understanding.org) in Tampa. See video at: http://www.projectahimsa.org/TablasAndTurntables_Subtitled.mov
Visit Project Ahimsa on the web at http://www.projectahimsa.org
Recent Coverage
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lassiwithlavina.com, September 15, 2009
Ganesh Barriya is a young rag picker from the Ahmedabad slums who's donned headphones in a recording studio to perform on Global Lingo, a cool CD which is featured on I-tunes.Indeed, for several children in the slums, be it in India or Nicaragua, this has become a real life scenario, thanks to Project Ahimsa which has opened up a whole new world of music education for them.
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World Vision Report, September 12, 2009
"Global Lingo" teaches music - and non-violence - to poor kids throughout the world.
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The Indian Express, September 4, 2009
GANESH BARRIYA is a young rag picker from the slums of Ahmedabad who has donned headphones in a recording studio to perform on Global Lingo, a cool CD which is featured on I-tunes. Indeed, for several children in the slum, be it in India or Nicaragua, this has become a real life scenario, thanks to Project Ahimsa which has opened up a
whole new world of music education for them. -
indian Kids Lend Magic to 'Global Lingo' CD
India West, August 27, 2009
Talented kids from India's slums have a friend in Project Ahimsa, a musiic-themed NGO based in San Francisco that was active long befoer "Slumdog Millionaire" caught the world's ear.
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From Oakland to India, Youth Speak A Global Lingo
WireTap Magazine, August 24, 2009
Project Ahimsa, a global organization that aims to empower youth through music, recently released Global Lingo, a compilation that showcases the youth talent from its efforts worldwide, many of whom face the same trials as our Slumdog hero. Project Ahimsa ("ahimsa" is a Sanskrit term for "nonviolence" and one of Gandhi's tenets) raises funds to create microgrants for musical instruments and salaries for music teachers at various nonprofits across around the world, currently serving 10,000 kids in 14 countries.