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Sample Track 1:
"Any Day Now- by Coco Peila of Youth Movement Records (USA) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 2:
"Hello Bonjour - Michael Franti & Spearhead with Sly & Robbie (USA) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 3:
"Speak It - JBoogie, Tablapusher, Mandeep Sethi, MC Humble, Youth (India) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 4:
"Liberation 3000 -Nilla Green feat. Ganesh Barriya & Payal Vaghela of Manav Sadhna (India) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 5:
"Africa for Learn -Rocky Dawuni in benefit for Africa Live! (Ghana) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 6:
"Sunshine -Seasunz feat. Diamond in benefit for Art in Action (USA) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 7:
"Fire-Cottonbelly Remix -Miguel Migs featuring Junior Reid " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 8:
"He Manav Visvaas -by Cubanix featuring Ganesh Barriya of Manav Sadhna (India) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 9:
"Why? -by Sila and The Afrofunk Experience benefiting House of Hope (Uganda) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 10:
"Much To Do-Back to Guahan -Erica Nalani of Youth Movement Records (USA)" from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 11:
"Hear It Loud - Sam Norling and Ching-Hwa feat. Voudux and Mitchy Mitch " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 12:
"He Manav -GOONDA featuring Ganesh Barriya & Payal Vaghela of Manav Sadhna (India) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 13:
"BodaNathu -Amit Shoham featuring Payal Vaghela of Manav Sadhna (India) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 14:
"El tiburon del Lago Cocibolca -the Children of Ritmo en los barrios (Nicaragua) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 15:
"Dolare -Funkadesi featuring Pavithra " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 16:
"Ahimsa Street Dub -JBoogie & Tablapusher featuring the Children of Manav Sadhna (India) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
Sample Track 17:
"Bobby Friction Shoutout/BBC Radio 1 -Empower the Children Chorus (India) / Bobby Friction (UK) " from Project Ahimsa's "Global Lingo"
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PROJECT AHIMSA album release to benefit youth music programs
The nonprofit group Project Ahimsa was founded as a nonviolent response to hate crimes against Sikh and South Asian communities in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. With the goal of empowering youth through music, the organization began holding benefit concerts to help fund youth-focused music education programs in underdeveloped communities around the world.

"We called [the fund-raiser events] 'Ahimsa,' which means 'nonviolence to all living things' in Sanskrit," Project Ahimsa co-founder Vijay Chattha says. "Our feeling is that music is the universal language that connects us all."

Since 2001, Project Ahimsa has distributed nearly 80 grants ranging from $1,000 to $1,500 to music education programs in 14 countries. The funds are primarily given to "communities that were suffering from communal violence, high levels of dropout rates or gang violence," Chattha says. The ultimate goal, he adds, is to hand out musical instruments to kids who wouldn't typically possess such things.

Last year the nonprofit asked music teachers and students around the world to contribute tracks to the album "Global Lingo," which Project Ahimsa will self-release Aug. 11. The set also features music by such acts as Michael Franti & Spearhead, J-Boogie, Miguel Migs and Junior Reid.

"Global Lingo" will be available for $9.99 on iTunes and GlobalLingoMusic.com, according to Chattha. Proceeds from the album will be reinvested in music programs, he says, which can apply for a grant through ProjectaHimsa.org.
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