Restarting Insight World Aid
March 22, 2025
Gil Fronsdal and IMC members founded Insight World Aid (IWA) in 2011 to provide humanitarian aid to challenged communities in the US and abroad. After being dormant for the last few years, it has been revived in 2025! Original Board members Jeff Hardin and Gil Fronsdal continue on the Board, now guided by Board President Ram Appalaraju.
At the inception of IWA, Insight practitioners who were doctors, nurses, and medical specialists provided free medical care at Bay Area weekend medical fairs for people who otherwise could not afford it. IWA also brought together 28 people to go on a medical mission to Cambodia, working in a hospital and providing support for an orphanage. The organization also provided funds for schools in Burma, and for the community outreach efforts of a Buddhist temple in Uganda.
As we restart the organization, we will begin locally by providing meals to a homeless community in the Bay Area on May 2nd. In addition, we will be offering meditation classes to residents of homeless shelters. IWA will be participating in a creek cleaning as part of Redwood City’s Spring Clean-Up Day on April 26. For more information on these events, and to participate in them, please sign up on our website.
We will continue explore developing IWA’s potential to offer care to a suffering world. An information session on Insight World Aid is scheduled on Sunday April 20 at 11:30 AM. The information session will be on Zoom and details are posted on our homepage.
We are actively looking for volunteers to join the organization, to practice Buddhism through humanitarian care to suffering communities worldwide. More information at insightworldaid.org or by contacting ram@insightworldaid.org.
Note: If you missed our April 20th information session with Gil Fronsdal, Jeff Hardin, and Ram Appalaraju, you can watch the recording here.
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