Food Relief, Umbrella Project, India Divine
In 1990, when Hilda Brown lost her favorite brown umbrella, she was inspired to found THE UMBRELLA PROJECT, Inc. an all-volunteer 501(c)3 Not-For-Profit organization that uses the common language of art to empower young people.
Envisioning everyone in the world carrying colorful canopies whenever life’s storms threaten, Hilda encourages school-age children to paint in small groups on over-sized white-nylon umbrellas with non-toxic fabric markers. With these tools, healthy, ill, and challenged children share their artistic images with each other and the world.
Believing in the creative spirit as a healing power on the planet, Hilda continues to gather our youngest World Citizens under her umbrella of protection. Through The Umbrella Project, she encourages them to artistically express their hearts and in the process recover hope and peace while helping other children in need.
Bhaktivedanta International Charities Inc. is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization registered in the United States of America dedicated to carrying out relief activities to help the poor and needy in India.
Every month the Bhaktivedanta International Charities feeds over 6,000 needy children in the drought and flood afflicted areas of Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, which comprise some of the poorest regions of India. Below you can find some recent reports of our activities, or if you click the picture above you can be taken to our picture gallery.
Bhaktivedanta International Charities was founded for the following purposes:
- To provide humanitarian need to the poor and needy in India in the form of free food, medicines, and clothes.
- To start and run educational institutions and to provide all necessary facilities for the education of the poor irrespective of caste, community, creed or religion.
- To afford medical relief to the sick and the suffering without any restriction as to religion, caste, community, or creed by construction and or maintaining hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, maternity and childrens homes, etc.
- To construct and or maintain libraries for the educational benefit of the public.
- To grant scholarships or subsidies to poor and needy students.
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