Covid-19 & RDI Initiatives toward Community Services

It has beeen very challenging for health care systems to contain Covid-19 transmission in the rural areas, especially in Uttarakhand because of the shortage of doctors, hospital beds and equipment, especially in densely populated underserved areas. Covid-19 creates a...

June Reflections

June is a month of reflection, as it is the time that our founder Swami Rama seeded many things, whether the First International Yoga and Meditation Conference in USA in 1976 or establishing the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust in 1989. At these trying times across...

Drinking Water at the Doorsteps . . . Changing Lives

“Water is the source of happiness, energy, health and piety, and is life giving as mother.” Rig Veda 10.9.1-2 “This Functional Household Tap Connection (FHTC) has delivered elixir to my house,” says Kamini Padiyar, a resident of village Kheda Talla, Tehri Garhwal,...

Humble Beginnings

February 1990, the foundation stone of the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust (HIHT) was laid. Speaking on the occasion, Swami Rama said, “I pray to the diinity in you. I am only a humble server. I have nothing of my own within me. By the grace of my Gurudev, based on...