Food for Life
Global was founded in 1995 in Washington DC to serve as the headquarters
and coordinating office for Food for Life
projects worldwide.
Headquarters
10310 Oaklyn Drive, Potomac, MD 20854
Mailing: P.O. Box 59037,
Potomac, MD 20859 USA
Director
Paul Rodney Turner
Director Emeritus
H.H. Mukunda Goswami
Food for Life Global Goals:
- To help co-ordinate and expand the distribution
of pure vegan/vegetarian meals all over the world.
- To produce promotional and training materials
for the development of Food for Life projects worldwide.
- To represent Food for Life to the government,
media and public through public lectures, newspaper articles,
the Internet, and through mail.
- To promote the Vedic food culture and the
art of hospitality based on spiritual equality
- To raise funds on behalf of Food for Life
projects worldwide
- To coordinate and sponsor emergency
relief efforts conducted by Food for Life volunteers
Background on the Food for Life Project:
The distribution of sanctified vegetarian meals has
been and will continue to be an essential part of India's Vedic
culture of hospitality from which Food for Life was born.
Since its inception in the early 70’s, Food for
Life has tried to liberally distribute pure vegetarian meals
(prasadam) throughout the world with the aim of creating peace
and prosperity. The Food for Life Global office, directed by Paul Turner,
facilitates the expansion, co-ordination and promotion of prasadam
distribution throughout the world.
Details:
FOOD FOR LIFE is a nonprofit organization,
bringing food and life to the needy of the world through the
liberal distribution of pure vegetarian meals. The project
started in 1974 when an elderly
Indian swami, Srila Prabhupada, implored his yoga students not
to allow anyone within a ten mile radius of his ashram to go
hungry. The program grew quickly, and today Food for Life is
active in over 60 countries worldwide.
Over 1,000,000 meals daily!
With volunteers serving more than 1,000,000 free vegetarian
meals daily from free food restaurants, mobile kitchens, to schools
and to disaster areas, FOOD FOR LIFE is the largest vegetarian/vegan
food relief in
the world.
Community Based
Food for Life Global's volunteers
are made
up of vegans, vegetarians, and the socially conscious
public. Food for Life Global is a non-sectarian organization.
Everyone is welcome to participate in our community projects.
Summary of Food for Life Global Achievements:
- Produced Food for Life Friends Newsletter
(Since 1991)
- Provided grants of more than $400,000 to
FFL projects worldwide since 1995
- Published Food for Life Training manual
(260 page instructional manual)
- Designed and developed Food for Life Web
site
- Produced Prasadam Sevaya music CD
- Produced Training/promotional supplements
to FFL manual, guidelines, videos, music CD, flyers, prospectus,
posters, etc.)
- Conducted over 100 training seminars in
29 countries and regions of the world
- Innaugurated Feed
the World Week
- Represented at world vegetarian conferences
- Authored articles for vegetarian magazines
and newspapers
- Director, Paul Turner was elected a Council
Member of IVU (International Vegetarian Union in 1999)
- Coordinated numerous disaster relief projects,
including the tsunami of 2004, Gujarat earthquake, and
Katrina hurricane, etc.
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