WYD 2010 countdown - join now!

On Sunday 31st JAN 2010 from 11AM – 1PM yoga schools all over the world practice two hours of yoga to donate our energy and money for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Boarders / Ärzte ohne Grenzen). Through the different time zone a “24hrs Yoga Chain” around the world unfolds.

The countdown for WORLD YOGA DAY 2010 on JAN 31st has begun. This year we support MSF who are doing a fantastic job and that's why we haven chosen them for this year to receive all of our energy.

How often do we say/think “ I just love how yoga makes me feel” or “ Yoga is so good for me” ? Well, yoga is about bringing the opposites together. About joining the parts that we consider positive with the one we consider not so positive. WORLD YOGA DAY celebrates exactly this. On WORLD YOGA DAY we join forces with the ones who are not doing so good.

MSF is active in all parts of the world where people are in need. Our help will be dedicated especially to Africa, to the Republic of Kongo, Sudan and Simbabwe. Let us give you a few examples, what they can do with our help:

5 Euro can buy 50.000 litres of fresh water in one of the refugee camps. This is enough to help 5000 refugee in an area of crisis.
10 Euro buys the medication to prevent 5 people for getting malaria. Malaria is one of the deadliest disease in these troubled area.
15 Euro buys special food for malnourished children. With 15 Euro a malnourished child can be treated with special food for three weeks.
20 Euro buys antiretroviral medication for HIV infected pregnant women and there unborn babies. Doctors without boarder treats 40.000 HIV infected people in Simbabwe for free. For 20 Euro they can prevent that a pregnant woman infects her unborn child.

You will find more information on their website http://www.msf.org. Go to the bottom of the homepage and you´ll find the website in over 40 languages.

Please visit http://www.world-yoga-day.net, click on JOIN US and sign up. On this webpage you will find all further information if needed. Spread the word and let everyone know
about this event.

WORLD YOGA DAY POSTERS are available on demand in different languages. Feel free to contact us any time.

Namaste.

Your WYD TEAM
Berlin, Germany