| 词条 | Food for Life Global |
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| name = Food for Life Global | image = Food For Life Global logo.png | type = Charity | founded_date = 1974 | tax_id = 28209397 | registration_id = 4077911000 | founder = | location = | coordinates = | origins = | key_people = | area_served = Worldwide | product = | mission = | focus = | method = | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = | num_employees = | num_members = | subsid = | opponents = | owner = | non-profit_slogan = Uniting the World Through Pure Food | former name = | homepage = https://www.ffl.org | dissolved = | footnotes = }}Food for Life Global is a non-profit vegetarian food relief organization operated by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Its efforts span the globe, with projects occupying over 60 countries.[1] Volunteers provide up to 2,000,000 free meals daily.[1] Food For Life engages in various sorts of hunger relief, including outreach to the homeless, provision for disadvantaged children throughout India, and provision for victims of natural disasters around the world.[2] With roots in India, the Food for Life project views itself as being a modern-day revival of the ancient Vedic culture of hospitality and service to those in need. It was conceived of and began in 1974 as a series of local operations; it now continues, also, as a global organization. HistoryFood for Life as a project was initially inspired by an elderly Indian Swami, known as A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acharya of ISKCON. In 1974 when watching a group of village children fighting with dogs over scraps of food, the Swami became upset and told his students, "No one within ten miles of a temple should go hungry... I want you to immediately begin serving food."[3] In response to his plea, members of ISKCON and volunteers around the world were inspired to expand that original effort into a global network of kitchens, cafes, vans, and mobile services, all providing free food, and establishing daily delivery routes in many large cities around the world. Since that day, Food for Life has grown into the world’s largest vegan/vegetarian food relief program. The distribution of sanctified plant-based meals has been and will continue to be an essential part of India’s Vedic culture of hospitality from which Food for Life was born. With volunteers serving up to 2,000,000 free plant-based meals daily to schools, as well as from mobile vans and to disaster areas. FOOD FOR LIFE is now the largest food relief in the world, eclipsing even the United Nations World Food Programme. Food For Life volunteers have provided food for the poor and homeless during several recent disasters.
In total, Food for Life has distributed more than 2 billion meals since its inception. Food for Life has expanded its reach to include, eco projects such as Working Villages International; as well as orphanages such as Gokulam – Bhaktivedanta Children’s Home Gokulam in Sri Lanka, a refuge where needy children receive food, shelter, medical care, education and loving care. Disaster reliefSiege of SarajevoIn the war zone of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, volunteers visited orphanages, homes for the elderly, hospitals, institutes for handicapped children, and basement shelters on a daily basis throughout the three-year conflict; an estimated 20 tons of food have been distributed since 1992.[4] Chechnyan WarsIn a New York Times article dated (December 12, 1995) volunteers in Chechnya were described as having "a reputation like the one Mother Teresa has in Calcutta: it's not hard finding people to swear they are saints."[5] 2004 TsunamiFood for Life was the first food relief agency to respond to the tsunami disaster of December 2004. On the same afternoon the great tsunami hit, Vaisnava monks at ISKCON's temple in Chennai, India were preparing their weekly Sunday vegetarian feast, when they heard of the disaster. They immediately raced to the most affected areas on the southeast coastline of India and began serving thousands of people with their preprepared vegetable curry. Over the following 6 months, Food for Life Volunteers in Sri Lanka, India, Europe, USA and Australia provided more than 350,000 freshly cooked meals, along with medical care, water, clothing, and shelter for children at ISKCON's orphanage in Colombo, the Bhaktivedanta Children's Home. Hurricane KatrinaFood for Life Global Volunteers responded to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in late August 2005 by providing vegan meals to families relocated to Mississippi and Texas. Up to 800 meals were served daily.[6] Pakistan earthquakeVolunteers from Udhampur, Jammu, Amritsar and Haridwar under the guidance of His Holiness Navayogendra Swami Maharaj, a prominent disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, came together to provide relief for victims of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Working from an ISKCON temple in Udhampur, which was within the earthquake-affected region, the volunteers loaded trucks with drinking water, rice, bread, and blankets.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}} ISKCON Food Relief Foundation{{main|ISKCON Food Relief Foundation}}Food for Life Global's principle affiliate, the Food for Life Annamrita program, was founded by ISKCON Food Relief Foundation (IFRF), believes in providing children with the right nutrition to support their education. IFRF's Food for Life Annamrita program is based on the belief that "you become what you eat." The nutritious meals this program serves daily encourages over a million children to attend school. One of their goals is to help every child in India get a full education by providing wholesome meals. They are currently serving 1.3 million meals daily from dozens of high-tech kitchens across 10 states. Food for Life GlobalFood for Life Global (FFLG) was founded in 1995 in Maryland USA but closed it offices at the end of 2014. It re-established its offices in Slovenia where it continues to serve as the headquarters and coordinating office for all Food for Life projects worldwide. The organization is currently registered under the name: Humanitarno društvo FFL Global in Kamnik, Slovenia with registration number 4077911000 (matična številka), TAX ID Nr. 28209397 (davčna številka). It continues to have a presence in the United States through it strategic partner, A Well-Fed World.
Paul Rodney Turner, also known as Priyavrata das or the "food yogi," is the international director.[7] FFLG aims & objectives
ControversySome Food for Life programs have suffered severe criticism from ISKCON leaders and devotees who believe them to be a major deviation from Srila Prabhupada's original preaching mission by their promotion of so-called "mundane welfare activities". According to these opponents, Srila Prabhupada was strongly opposed to food distribution done without chanting of the names of Krsna and without preaching.[8][9][10] See also
References1. ^1 About Food for Life Global 2. ^European Vegetarian and Animal News Agency article: Interview with Paul Turner 3. ^History of Food for Life 4. ^"Sarajevo 1994" 5. ^New York Times, December 12, 1995 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616104254/http://ffl.org/ffl_newyorktimes.php |date=June 16, 2006 }} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ffl.org/emergency-relief/katrina-and-rita-2005/|accessdate=July 6, 2011|title=Summary of Katrina/Rita Relief}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ffl.org/about/the-director-2/|title=About Director|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529215841/http://www.ffl.org/about/the-director-2/|archivedate=2015-05-29|df=}} 8. ^{{cite web|last1=DAS|first1=Murari|title=Mundane Welfare Work in ISKCON.|url=http://lastingimpression.info/pdf/mundane_welfare_work_in_iskcon-ver.2-19.01.2015.pdf|access-date=2017-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306040716/http://lastingimpression.info/pdf/mundane_welfare_work_in_iskcon-ver.2-19.01.2015.pdf|archive-date=2017-03-06|dead-url=yes|df=}} 9. ^{{cite web|last1=SWAMI|first1=Jayadvaita|title=Food for Death Seminar.|url=http://iskconsalem.com/food-death/}} 10. ^{{cite web|last1=SWAMI|first1=Bhakti Vikasa|title=Some Concerns About ISKCON lecture series.|url=http://bvks.com/search/?q=some+concerns}} External links
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