Harmony Through Education to Host Art & Artifacts Silent Auction to Benefit Children in Rural India

Harmony Through Education to Host Art & Artifacts Silent Auction to Benefit
Children in Rural India

Proceeds from Auction to Benefit the Harmony School for Mentally and
Physically Challenged Children in India

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Harmony Through Education
(Harmony) is holding its first annual Art & Artifacts Silent Auction to
benefit the Harmony School in India for mentally and physically challenged
children. Harmony serves the needs of children and their families by providing
them with educational opportunities and health care programs in rural India.
In India alone, out of 25 million mentally and/or physically challenged
people, 90% don't have access to a formal education.

A contribution of only $10 allows one child at the Harmony School to eat two
meals per day for an entire week. A donation of $50 covers the entire cost of
one child to attend the Harmony School for a month.

"Without additional aid and assistance, special needs children in India will
continue to lack access to educational opportunities they so rightly deserve.
They are forced to depend upon their parents, who, themselves, are struggling
to earn a living," says Seth Shaffer, Harmony founder and president. "With the
generous contributions of our donors, we are able to provide these children
with vocational and life skills needed for these children to become
self-sufficient and productive members of their community."

The auction will be hosted at the Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and
Culture in Maryland on December 5, 2009 from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. The silent
auction will feature nine limited edition photographs of Mahatma Gandhi by the
late internationally known photojournalist, Kulwant Roy, as well as art work
from up and coming local DC, MD, and VA artists.

About Harmony Through Education

Harmony is a non-profit organization based in Maryland founded in 2006 by then
23-year-old Seth Shaffer. After volunteering in India for five months, Shaffer
was deeply moved by the mentally and physically challenged children he worked
with. There was no school for special needs children where Shaffer worked.
Shaffer returned to the States, launched Harmony, and eighteen months later
Shaffer opened the Harmony School. Harmony has received support from
individuals such as the winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, His Holiness the
14th Dalai Lama who named the school, "Illuminating Loving Kindness" School.

To learn more about Harmony, please visit www.harmonythrougheducation.org.

SOURCE Harmony Through Education

Charlotte Misewicz of Harmony Through Education, +1-703-577-5428,
info@harmonythrougheducation.org