Ahimsa Peace Institute GWEI
@gandhi_worldwide_education_institute
North Las Vegas, Nevadahttp://www.gandhiforchildren.org Non-profit OrganizationsOverview
About Ahimsa Peace Institute GWEI
In May 2023, Arun Gandhi made his grand transition. In his honor Ahimsa Peace Institute "API" dba of GWEI a Nevada based 501c3 was established to preserve and continue to support his legacy work. We are living through a great loss and transition. In the second half of 2023 GWEI-API expanded its mission and acquired the exclusive North American film rights for all media for Ahimsa-Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless. Gandhi's 5th grandson Arun Gandhi, his sister Ela Gandhi and cousin Rajmohan are featured in the film along with Mahatma Gandhi. The film received the UN Celebration of Peace Award.
About
The Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute has embarked on an ambitious multi-pronged program to help eradicate the scourge of poverty and human degradation. Gandhi said: “Poverty is the worse form of violence,” and must be tackled on all fronts to ensure human rights and human dignity to those who are victims of societal exploitation.
The priority of the Institute is to rescue children from the poorest sections of Indian society who are the first to become victims of criminal gangs; the second priority is to build an institution that serves as a shelter as well as a learning institution where the rescued children will receive basic education.
Our Mission
In May of 2008, the Institute was founded in the United States by Arun Gandhi, grandson of M.K. Gandhi, to promote community building in economically depressed areas of the world through the joining of Gandhian philosophy and vocational education for children and their parents.
Arun and his late wife, Sunanda, spent almost 30 years in India working with friends to help the oppressed and abandoned children, utilizing Gandhi’s philosophy of SARVODAYA — the Welfare of All Citizens. They rescued and found homes for hundreds of abandoned children and developed several economic programs that successfully changed the lives of thousands of impoverished people.
GWEI a Nevada based 501(c)3
About
The Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute has embarked on an ambitious multi-pronged program to help eradicate the scourge of poverty and human degradation. Gandhi said: “Poverty is the worse form of violence,” and must be tackled on all fronts to ensure human rights and human dignity to those who are victims of societal exploitation.
The priority of the Institute is to rescue children from the poorest sections of Indian society who are the first to become victims of criminal gangs; the second priority is to build an institution that serves as a shelter as well as a learning institution where the rescued children will receive basic education.
Our Mission
In May of 2008, the Institute was founded in the United States by Arun Gandhi, grandson of M.K. Gandhi, to promote community building in economically depressed areas of the world through the joining of Gandhian philosophy and vocational education for children and their parents.
Arun and his late wife, Sunanda, spent almost 30 years in India working with friends to help the oppressed and abandoned children, utilizing Gandhi’s philosophy of SARVODAYA — the Welfare of All Citizens. They rescued and found homes for hundreds of abandoned children and developed several economic programs that successfully changed the lives of thousands of impoverished people.
GWEI a Nevada based 501(c)3