New York, NY, April 21, 2006 — Prem Rawat delivered the keynote address at a special event held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in honor of the support provided by The Prem Rawat Foundation to the United Nations Development Programme’s Community Water Initiative in Ghana and The National Council of Women of the United States’ Water Well Project in Ghana.
The event, called “Water for Humanity and Peace,” was attended by distinguished representatives of the United Nations in New York, as well as by government and civic leaders from the New York area.
Prem Rawat, widely known as Maharaji, presented on behalf of his Foundation a significant contribution for the Water Governance Programme in Ghana to Terence Jones, Director of the UN Capacity Development Group. He also presented a contribution to Mary Singletary, President of the National Council of Women of the United States.
These contributions will provide clean drinking water and sanitation for thousands of men, women, and children in villages in Ghana. New electric wells will be installed, allowing villagers to get clean underground water rather than have to walk miles for contaminated river water.
Thanking Prem Rawat, Terence Jones said: “What, indeed, is fundamental to our work these days is not only to deliver those human rights, but to do so in a manner which contributes to sustainable peace and development. So, therefore, let me join others in thanking Prem Rawat and his colleagues at the Foundation for this generous contribution to forwarding the program for clean water in the remote areas of Ghana. On behalf of the United Nations Development Programme and my colleagues here today, especially, thank you again for bringing so much joy and peace to so many people in this world.”
Presenting the Distinguished International Humanitarian Achievement Award to Prem Rawat, Mary Singletary said: “We are very, very appreciative of this gift and want to thank all of the contributors, the Board, and of course Prem Rawat, on behalf of the women, the babies, the children, and families who will have a healthier life due to your humanitarian generosity. With this gift from The Prem Rawat Foundation, we will be able to install more wells and make it possible for thousands of villagers in Ghana to drink clean water.”
“This award is given to you, Prem Rawat,” she said, “in recognition of outstanding leadership, profound commitment, and exceptional contributions to the quality of life for women, children, and families, and for the inspirational global influence of your message: peace comes when we begin to look within. We thank you for your humanitarian efforts and your financial support of the Water Well Initiative in Ghana, West Africa.”
The National Council of Women is the oldest, non-sectarian volunteer organization of women in America. It was founded in 1888, but its roots began in the antislavery movement, and its founders include Susan B. Anthony, whose likeness appears on the American silver dollar, and Clara Barton, who founded the American Red Cross. The National Council of Women is a United Nations NGO with consultative status, the highest status a non-governmental organization can achieve within the UN.
To discover more about Prem Rawat, his message of peace and humanitarian activities: http://tprf.org/Maharaji/Maharaji.htm
Source: The Prem Rawat Foundation, 310-392-5700
In recognition of TPRF’s humanitarian work, Prem Rawat was invited to speak at the Argentine Senate by Claudio Jacoy, president of the National Forum for Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, and Ambassador Oscar Laborde, vice president of the White Helmets, a UN-affiliated humanitarian aid and peacekeeping agency. These three organizations are rolling out a pilot program where tapes from Prem Rawat’s message of peace, along with other materials, are made available to people in prisons in Argentina.
Maharaji talks about the difference between philosophies and a reality that each human being wants to know and is searching for: “A nature of a human being is to try to find. Always, always. Trying to find a comfort…a joy…a peace. A peace, yet undefined.”
Prem Rawat tells a story from a dream he had about three brothers who search for fulfillment, each with a different idea of how to find it. “The journey of being fulfilled is very simple,” Maharaji says. “There is a joy unparalleled inside of you waiting to be discovered.”
"Living life should be a beautiful thing every day," 
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