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How Yoga is Transforming a Kenyan City

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20 Feb 2011 39 views
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How Yoga is Transforming a Kenyan City
In Nairobi, the Africa Yoga Project is training HIV+, poor, and disabled citizens to be yoga instructors, creating jobs and changing lives. Most of the 3,000 weekly students are aged 16-30, living on about $2 a day, and many live in Nairobi slums with HIV/AIDS.

In Nairobi, the Africa Yoga Project is training HIV+, poor, and disabled citizens to be yoga instructors, creating jobs and changing lives.

AYP hosts 200 free classes a week, reaching 3,000 students with 42 local yoga instructors. Most students are aged 16-30, living on about $2 a day, and many live in Nairobi slums with HIV/AIDS.

(READ the story in AlterNet.org)

Also, visit the website: www.africayogaproject.org

WATCH the video by Africa Yoga Project…

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