Skip a Meal
For an entire month Muslims fast as to what we call as Roza everyday from sunrise to sunset. This fasting is followed very rigorously and people don’t drink or eat anything during Ramadan. They only have one meal a day. Intermittent fasting is followed by others too for health, gratitude or various other reasons. Roza is followed to feel for the poor. When they fast for an entire day from dawn to dusk, they do it with absolute devotion and love for God. Also during these times, they don’t engage in hatred, violence, anger, jealousy, envy,greed. They get along with each other better than before. Purity of thought is absolutely important. They fast and feel for the poor, the poor and underprivileged are well fed and taken care of.
Fasting Benefits
In this day and age we are constantly surrounded by food and drinks all through the day. We are always snacking and overfed between the meals. Intermittent fasting helps us in using our sugar levels and then our body fat when we fast. This releases Ketones. Ketones helps in mental alertness and keeps us alert and agile all day.
Isha Vidhya
Isha Vidhya has 10 schools, 9 in TamilNadu and one in Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, as part of the parent organisation Isha Foundation. The important part of education is not taught, its a constant demonstration. Mental strength of the child is phenomenal. It has 8523 students for this academic year(2019 -2020). 60% of them are fully sponsored, 49% are girls, many are first generation school children. It has 100% pass percentage for 5 times in a row, state of the infrastructure with uncompromising high quality education.
One meal to educate
Maximum students are fully sponsored. There are many ways to reach out to them. Join as a CSR partner, Volunteer, join as a teacher, run a marathon to raise funds for infrastructure, classrooms and learning aid materials or skip a meal.
On Wednesday night, when you skip your dinner the amount you save can be shared to Isha Vidhya. When we skip the meal, we feel for the child. It is not just a monetary contribution but a compassionate one.
