Awards and Recognitions

  • Barbara Thiele Award for Leadership and Outstanding Community Service
  • Honorary Award for Excellence in Spreading Yogic Sciences and Humanity Service/Patanjali College of Yoga and Research
  • Outstanding Service award for 'Being Human' from First World Community
  • Award of Excellence from SV Institute Center for Transdisciplinary Studies.
  • 'COVID Hero' Service Award/Gurunarayan Ashram.
  • Certificate of Appreciation and Excellence/Unik Life Foundation.
  • Received - Barbara Thiele Award for Outstanding Service.
  • Received Honorary Award for excellence in Spreading Yogic Sciences and humanity service from Patanjali College of Yoga and Research.
  • Received - Outstanding Service award for “Being Human“ Award from First World Community
  • Received - Award of Excellence from SV – Center for Transdisciplinary Studies.
  • Received - Honorary Doctorate for Human Sciences from The American University
  • Received – “Covid Hero” award from GURUNARAYAN ASHRAM.
  • Received Certificate of Appreciation and excellence from UNIK LIFE FOUNDATION.
Awards

Accomplishments

Below are the initiatives that VK Intl created and founded through his group last 15 years:

  • VK Intl provides a multi-cultural wellness outreach to individuals and families bringing mindfulness and counseling to address stress, anxiety and family problems serving over 65,000 people. This includes bringing purpose through serving the homeless.
  • Parents wellness Session: Free Spiritual, emotional Healing, family wellness, marriage counseling, health counseling and healing, spiritual retreats for parents and children. More than 20,000 people are served so far.
  • Children Wellness Sessions: Free Weekly sessions for Children to teach them Moral, spiritual and emotional well-being and character-building activities.
  • Jeeva Karunya Seva : So far we did 250,000 pounds of food donations to local hunger centers, partnering with 15 shelter house in the DMV area.
  • Interfaith Board member: Organized - Voice of the faith events at local libraries and community college to bring interfaith dialogue and spread peace and togetherness in the community.
  • Spirit Talks- organized multiple spirit talks spreading voice of Vedanta on Universal Oneness partnering with faith leaders of other religions in spreading the voice of unity in diversity.
  • Daily Vedanta and Spiritual Seminars: Daily send out spiritual messages that are self-composed from the depths of my soul that gives guidance to fellow sadhakas, promotes peace and enlightens life and living, message reaches out to almost 30000 people every day through different channels.
  • Washington DC Central kitchen service for homeless: Organize groups to serve cooked food almost 15000 plus meals in multiple separate visits every month.
  • Eye Surgery donations campaign: Coordinated with nonprofits across the world and ran a campaign for promoting approximately 15000 eye surgeries for underprivileged individuals.
  • Distress families counseling: Created a hot line phone number for distressed people to receive counselling 24x7, He provides a sense of "being there" as a support structure for some of families affected with psychological disorders, marriage and divorce issues, children's issues, depression issues .
  • Orphan children rehabilitation and rescue in India: He conducts recurring campaigns to support orphan children centers across multiple countries and raised funds for their rehabilitation.
  • Blankets and clothes donation campaign to the nearest homeless shelters: Every winter, our group runs a Campaign and distribute blankets to the homeless people in partnership with local government and private shelters across multiple countries.
  • Animal Shelter and Protection campaigns: We have been coordinating with animal protection teams both in India and US for protecting sick cows, horses, dogs, cats and supporting protection shelters.
  • Destitute children education and health care campaign in India: Partnered with Bharathi foundation in India for empowering orphan kids with education and health.
  • Destitute adult’s health needs campaign in India: Partnered with Bharathi foundation in Hyderabad to help them in the care of destitute adults who can't afford health and medical care.
  • Senior citizen homes: we have been coordinating with centers of senior citizen care to spend some time with them and take children during holidays with a surprise gift to cheer them up.