Prout Research Institute of Venezuela
The Prout Research Institute of Venezuela in Caracas is an independent, not-for-profit foundation founded by Dada Maheshvarananda and José Albarrán in 2007. According to its website, its mission is "to empower all people to improve their quality of life within a more just society by fostering and promoting worker cooperatives, self-reliant communities, environmental protection, universal ethics, and spiritual values".
The Institute researches and teaches the dynamic principles of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT), a post-capitalist model to empower people and communities to create a better world. All resources published are freely available on their website. The Institute accepts visitors and international volunteers in the Quinta Prout, a large house in El Marques, Caracas, nearby to Petare, that the Institute has been given usufruct.
In 2007 the Institute produced a documentary, Another Life is Possible: Cooperatives in Barlovento, Venezuela. In 2011 the Institute organized a public conference, Building a Solidarity Economy based on Ethics and Ecology.
The Prout Research Institute of Venezuela supports Centro Madre, a sister project in San José de Barlovento, a two-hour drive east of Caracas. This community project was founded in 2000 by Didi Ananda Sadhana to encourage self-sufficiency through education, sustainable agriculture, integrated development and ethical leadership. Centro Madre is located on three and a half hectares of land. Three times they received an evaluation of excellence from the CIARA government institute of agriculture, as a national model for small-scale sustainable agriculture. Their reading program lends books each week to families in the community to read together, and creates programs in schools.
The Institute researches and teaches the dynamic principles of the Progressive Utilization Theory (PROUT), a post-capitalist model to empower people and communities to create a better world. All resources published are freely available on their website. The Institute accepts visitors and international volunteers in the Quinta Prout, a large house in El Marques, Caracas, nearby to Petare, that the Institute has been given usufruct.
In 2007 the Institute produced a documentary, Another Life is Possible: Cooperatives in Barlovento, Venezuela. In 2011 the Institute organized a public conference, Building a Solidarity Economy based on Ethics and Ecology.
The Prout Research Institute of Venezuela supports Centro Madre, a sister project in San José de Barlovento, a two-hour drive east of Caracas. This community project was founded in 2000 by Didi Ananda Sadhana to encourage self-sufficiency through education, sustainable agriculture, integrated development and ethical leadership. Centro Madre is located on three and a half hectares of land. Three times they received an evaluation of excellence from the CIARA government institute of agriculture, as a national model for small-scale sustainable agriculture. Their reading program lends books each week to families in the community to read together, and creates programs in schools.
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