Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Youth Get their Prayers Answered

The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund awarded a grant enabling the YES! program to be offered at Northwestern High School in inner city Baltimore during the  2005-06 school year. Art of Living youth instructors reached 112 at-risk students over the course of this two-month pilot program that culminated in a summer camp for  53 students from NYC, Baltimore, Manitoba, Canada, and Washington D.C. 

Testimonials: 

"I prayed to God for some release of my stress – somehow I was stressing out really bad about family issues and stuff in my life and then all of a sudden, the YES! program popped up at my school and I joined the class.  When I stopped taking the class, I realized that it had relieved a lot of my stress. I was more friendly to people around me, and more relaxed and more focused on my work instead of real tense and stressed. The class gave me a chance to think before acting.  I wanted to go to Canada to further the program because I wanted that same feeling.  I have never been out of Baltimore and I have never done anything like this before"
Tashana, Northwestern High School, 16 years old 

Before I used to fight anything that came up to me, but this program has changed me a lot.  Like today, there was this incident in the cafeteria.  A girl came up to me all mad and she popped me. Of course you're gonna want to retaliate, and hit back.  But that's not the right thing to do.  So I just tried to push her off me and security came. She got in trouble, and me, I got away all good because I didn't do anything… so stay out of trouble, stay out of trouble… and that's from the YES! Program.   

Everyone needs this in their life…From student, to people.  I want to be a teacher!
Martika, Northwestern High School, 17 years old