Posted on April 24th, 2011

Support a great cause! This week from April 24-30, My Yoga Online is donating $1 to Shanti Uganda for every new Facebook Fan via  the ‘Like’ on our Facebook page—up to $5,000. We’re also giving away 3 My Yoga Online unlimited memberships. To enter, just head over to Shanti Uganda’s Facebook page and click ‘Join’.

About Shanti Uganda
Four years ago, two women came together to talk about how to bring the healing benefits of yoga and conscious birth to the traumatized communities in war-torn Uganda. With the help of friends and family, Kim Ridgewell and Natalie Angell formed Shanti Uganda, which they incorporated in 2009. They began with programs that included teen workshops for Ugandan youth, continuing education workshops for midwives, and support of an existing women’s income-generating group. Within one year, they’d expanded their reach, established a new women’s group, provided birth education workshops for midwives, donated over 100 Safe Birth Kits, graduated more than 28 HIV positive women from their savings and craft training program, and established a reusable menstrual pad distribution program. In 2009, with the financial support of Off The Mat Into The World, the Shanti Uganda team constructed the Shanti Uganda Birth House & Learning Centre in Nsaasi village. Today they are working towards their long-term goal of reducing maternal and infant mortality, improving access to education, and honour every birthing woman in Uganda.

Words from Bella Hwang, Shanti Uganda Executive Director: “Uganda has only known a tentative peace these past few years but two decades of civil war and persistent poverty has left its mark, as millions of children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS and thousands of women die annually in childbirth. The birthing culture in Uganda was left helpless by colonialism, which swept away local traditional knowledge and practices. Shanti uses yoga to help many teen girls and HIV positive women in Uganda improve their health and recover from trauma.  We also are teaching health workers and mothers in the area about the benefits of prenatal yoga. Thank you so much for supporting Shanti Uganda!”

Supporting Shanti Uganda

My Yoga Online is proud to support this inspiring organization, now an official registered Uganda NGO. Share your support by heading over to our Facebook page and becoming a Facebook Fan (by clicking ‘Like’). For every new Facebook Fan on our Facebook page, we’re donating $1 to Shanti Uganda—up to $5000.

Let your friends know by clicking the ‘Share’ options in the top-right corner of this blog post.

PLUS: Go to Shanti Uganda’s Facebook page and join their Group and be entered to win a 1-Year Membership to My Yoga Online. For the detailed rules and regulations: go here.

Other ways to support Shanti Uganda
Volunteer in Vancouver or in Uganda, purchase Shanti jewellery, bags, and birth kits, sponsor a midwife, or make a donation online at www.shantiuganda.org. Follow them on Twitter @shantiuganda

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