Projects & Partners - Maharishi World Development Fund

ThailandTransforming Lives at a Buddhist Girls School

The girls at the Dhammajarinee Witthaya School come from all over Thailand – some from poor families or broken homes; others orphans, violently abused, or at-risk of being sexually abused. The Buddhist nuns who founded the school have introduced Transcendental Meditation and found it to be an invaluable element in the daily life of the students.

TanzaniaThe Maasai

Almost 6,000 Maasai have learnt Transcendental Meditation during recent years – often on the advice of the Village Women Leaders – and enjoyed great benefit with health issues and high stress levels often deriving from a lack of proper healthcare and their subsistence lifestyle.

BaliEducation for World Peace

More than 11,000 students at over 50 World Peace Schools applying Consciousness-Based Education to enable students and teachers unfold their full potential and help bring peace to the world.

UgandaIdeal Girls School

The first Consciousness-Based school for girls in Africa, providing non-sectarian, mostly-residential education to over 100 students in the Mbale District of Eastern Uganda.

ColombiaSaving the Disposable Ones

Father Mehia is a Catholic priest in Colombia working to provide street children relief from the struggle for survival and support to create a better life. He directs 52 shelters for homeless children and youth offenders in Colombia and throughout South America.

South AfricaMaharishi Invincibility Institute

“Stepping stones to educational and economic freedom” – through distance learning, work experience, financial support, and personal development.

IndiaRevival of Vedic Education

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya (MMYVV) was established in 1995 to offer “life-oriented Vedic education” and “job-oriented modern education”.

KenyaGarden Children’s Home & School

A school and orphanage in the Riruta, Kawngware low-income district of Nairobi where 160 students, teachers, and staff practice Transcendental Meditation.

NepalRevival of Vedic Education

Eighty-eight Vedic educational institutions in Nepal, training both Acharyas (teachers) and approximately 3,000 student Pandits, as well as over 200 Vedic experts, many of them graduates of these Vedic schools, conduct traditional Vedic performances for the good of the individual and the benefit of society as a whole.

INDIACommunity Health

MWDF helped facilitate funding from AidsArk London for a charitable organisation in India running a preventive and curative HIV/AIDS programme in rural Maharashtra focussed on the health of expectant mothers infected with HIV and their children.

USASilence the Violence

The David Lynch Foundation helps to prevent and eradicate the all-pervasive epidemic of trauma and toxic stress amongst at-risk populations through promoting widespread implementation of Transcendental Meditation in order to improve their health, cognitive capabilities, and performance in life.

ZambiaMaharishi Model School

Consciousness-Based Pre-School. Primary, and Secondary education for poor families in Kanyama, Makeni Villa west of the capital Lusaka.

IndiaMaharishi Vidya Mandir Schools

110,000 students and 7,000 teaching, administrative, and support staff in 165 schools in 16 states have demonstrated the effectiveness of the consciousness-based approach in Indian education for the last 29 years.

NepalHealing Herbs

Creating economic opportunity for rural subsistence farmers through education in organic farming and financial management, as well as technical training and financial support, enabling them to produce ethical, organic herbs, spices, and superfoods of the highest organic standards, nutritional value, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility.

USAMaharishi International University

On-campus and online consciousness-based Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degree programmes in Applied Arts, Sciences, Business, and the Humanities.

UgandaEdapo Students at Peace High School

EDAPO supports 600 AIDS/HIV orphans and children at risk in Central Uganda, using Transcendental Meditation to help the children with high levels of stress and poor health. Despite their backgrounds, these students frequently become leaders in their classes, better able to face the challenges in their lives, creating a better future for themselves.

NepalConsciousness-Based Education

Ten schools in Nepal, with enrolment of over 8000, including a Military and a Government High School, are implementing Consciousness-Based Education in their curricula. Over 4,000 students are practising Transcendental Meditation and over 1,000 students and faculty are enrolled in advanced programmes.

KenyaLiberty Academy School

In the Rift Valley villages around Nandi Hills, more than 800 villagers and 150 students and faculty of the Liberty Academy School are practising Transcendental Meditation – “As a community, we are so happy about Transcendental Meditation because it has brought a lot of happiness and a lot of love in our homes”.

EnglandMaharishi Free School

A top 10 non-selective UK Free School, applying Consciousness-Based Education, with three times the national average pass rate at GCSE Grade A and twice the national average for 5 GCSE Grade C passes. Ofsted reported the school to be “Outstanding” in eleven areas and “Outstanding" overall.

KenyaTransmara Project

From within the Kuria tribal group, 350 students and 20 faculty of the Chamrecc Primary School practise Transcendental Meditation, as well as more than 800 parents and villagers, who have found great relief from PTSD.

KenyaSouthern Sudan Refugee Community in Nakuru

250 refugees from Southern Sudan, mostly schoolchildren, have learnt Transcendental Meditation in Nakuru, Kenya.

Northern IrelandBelfast Peaceline Project

An eye-opening documentary about the children and young people living along the Belfast Peaceline and how their lives were changed through the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

KenyaGlobal One Kibera School

All the faculty and 400 students at primary and secondary school levels in Kibera, a Nairobi slum district, practice Transcendental Meditation as part of the school day.

UgandaEdapo Primary School

With 298 boarders and 124 day-students, the EDAPO Primary School uses Transcendental Meditation to help with high levels of stress and poor health, and to create more hopeful outcomes for its children. The students have high pass levels in the primary examinations and frequently go on to high school, something quite remarkable in rural Uganda.