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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) recently became an active partner in the battle against a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has reportedly infected an estimated 600,000 people and left more than 2,400 dead. Responding to a call for assistance from AmeriCares, one of the Foundation's partners, TPRF made a grant of US$40,000 to provide clean drinking water for over 38,800 people for a month to help them remain healthy during the epidemic....
A grant of US$25,000 ensures nutritious food for over 500 children LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A grant of US$25,000 from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) ensures direct food aid to impoverished children living at a toxic landfill site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. This is the third TPRF grant since 2008 to Cambodian Children's Fund (CCF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the education, health care and safety of marginalized Cambodian...
Grant by The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) will bring drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services to people displaced by recent devastating floods. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A grant of US$100,000 from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) will help provide clean water and hygiene kits for people in the worst affected provinces, with a particular focus on orphans, widows, and the disabled. For over 20,000,000 Pakistani people who have reportedly suffered long- or...
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the third consecutive year, a grant for $25,000 from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) will help St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital (SJJEH) provide eye care to children in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. With one of the world's fastest growing and economically poorest populations, this area is also one of the world's most difficult environments in which to provide services of any kind due to political strife. According to St John Eye...
Grant of $US 33,000 will help provide food through winter in a town where 80% are homeless LOS ANGELES, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile in late February has left 80% of the people of Rio Claro homeless and without stores of food for the winter. Even as high-magnitude aftershocks continue, many are facing the cold Andes winter with only makeshift shelter and no stock of provisions. The grant from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) will provide a...
Seven Multi-Day Eye Clinics Receive High Praise from Participants LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) gave US $25,000 to sponsor multi-day eye clinics in seven cities December 2009 through January 2010 that provided eye care free of charge to over 13,500 people in India. Almost 10,000 people received prescription glasses, over 10,500 were given eye drops for infections, and more than 1,700 were diagnosed with cataracts and referred to hospitals...
Grant provides hot food to 150 children under 5 for six months MANILA, Philippines, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has given a grant of US $15,000 to provide food for six months to 150 malnourished children under 5 years old who are victims of recent typhoons in the Rizal province in the Philippines. The grant was made to the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) for a sustainable hot meal program. The delivery of essential aid to these children comes...
The Prem Rawat Foundation's grant to St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital will help provide eye care for 30,000 children. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A $25,000 grant by The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) is helping St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital (SJJEH) to provide eye care for 30,000 children in an area of the world where blindness is ten times higher than in the West. Over 50% of the people in the Palestinian Territories, one of the world's fastest growing populations,...
Non-profit organizations Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Centre and ActionAid International USA both receive funding to help Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) during the country's post-conflict period. NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE, Pakistan, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has granted over US$65,000 to provide food, medication, cattle and livestock provisions, and fruit plants to aid over 10,000 persons affected by the country's recent internal conflicts,...
The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has made a contribution of $20,000 to help St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital continue providing care in conflict-ridden Gaza. The only charitable provider of eye care in Gaza, St. John is open to all patients, regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. St. John Eye Hospital is one of the few medical care institutions currently functional in the Gaza territory, where all infrastructure, including the healthcare system, is in nearly complete collapse....
