Words of Peace Annual Report 2023
Thanks to thousands of generous donors, Words of Peace promotes Prem Rawat’s message of self-knowledge and personal peace around the world by supporting his live events and other speaking engagements.
Events mentioned below represent those sponsored by the Words of Peace Global Event Fund. They do not cover the total number of activities (77) attended by Prem Rawat in 2023.
In February of 2023, no one could have imagined that the year would turn out to be so amazing.
After a Knowledge Review and a few events in North America, Prem flew to India for a series of events there. On April 2nd in Lucknow, he spoke to an audience of 114,704 attendees and read from the Hindi translation of his latest book, Hear Yourself. This brought him the distinction of receiving the year’s first Guinness World Records Award for “The largest audience at a book reading for a single author.”
Stopping in Mauritius for another Knowledge Review, he then continued on to Africa for an intensive month of events and interviews in South Africa, and also visited Namibia for the first time, ending the tour with a long-awaited event in Côte d’Ivoire. You can view our short videos of the very special African events’ and interviews’ background stories here.
Extensive tours of Europe and North America followed, with special attention given to places he hadn’t visited for many years, like Copenhagen, Denmark. Prem also started implementing a brand new event concept by conducting Understanding More™ whole-day focus sessions. He ended up having 8 of them in front of enthusiastic audiences on both continents, with each presentation going deeper into the themes addressed. Watch our collection of short clips from these focus sessions here.
Next, he held an Understanding More™ focus session in Australia and then visited Japan, followed by a first-ever visit to Dubai, UAE. Coinciding with the book launch of the Arabic version of Hear Yourself, this visit included an opportunity to present his Peace Education Programto educators from across the world, at the Global Education Supplies and Solutions Conference (GESS). Read more about this visit on www.premrawat.com.
Back in India, Prem spoke at more events and conducted Indian versions, called “Jigyasa,” of the Understanding More™ focus sessions. On November 26th, he spoke to a record audience of 375,603 attendees at an event in Gaia, which entitled him to his second Guinness World Records Award of the year, for “the largest attendance at a lecture.” Click here to watch a video of the impressive arrangements for this event, all of which were sponsored by Words of Peace donors!
2023 was wrapped up by a very festive few days in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Prem was invited as a guest of honor to the World Brands Foundation’s award ceremony where he was keynote speaker. He was given two further world record awards, for the most peace lectures in a lifetime and for the Peace Education Program’s dissemination to 900 correctional facilities worldwide. Read more about these awards on TPRF.org.
In the closing event of the year in Kuala Lumpur attendees gathered from the entire North Pacific region, and from as far as Europe and North America – a suitable way to end this truly breathtaking year!
Media Interviews
• March 28th – Dainik Jagran (newspaper), Delhi, India
• March 28th – Network 10, Delhi, India
• March 28th – Amar Ujala (newspaper), Delhi, India
• March 29th – Red FM 93.5 Radio & Teri Mari Story Podcast, Delhi, India
• March 29th – Aaj Tak – Sahitya Tak Studio, Delhi, India
• May 2nd – Cool FM Nigeria
• May 2nd – Kiss FM Kenya
• May 2nd – Gabz FM Botswana
• May 4th – Heart FM Studios / Greenpoint, Cape Town, South Africa
• May 4th – Expresso Breakfast Show, Cape Town, South Africa
• May 12th – Gagasi Studios, Durban, South Africa
• May 12th – Ukozi FM, Durban, South Africa
• May 24th – The Agenda – SABC TV News, Johannesburg, South Africa
• May 24th – Metro FM, Johannesburg, South Africa
• May 25th – Lotus FM, Durban, South Africa
• May 29th – Eye on SADC TV, Windhoek, Namibia
• May 29th – Radio Channel Africa SABC, Windhoek, Namibia
• July 4th – Blue Sky TV at Blue Sky Studio, Athens, Greece
• November 2nd – Good Morning Arabs, Dubai TV at MBC TV Studios, Dubai, UAE
• November 5th – Pulse 95 Radio interview at The Expo Center in Sharjah, Dubai, UAE
77
speaking engagements and interviews
766,728
in-person event attendees
80,040
Facebook followers (English, Spanish, Hindi)
7,797
X (former Twitter) followers
31,538
YouTube followers
328,106
YouTube views
162
countries where website visitor sessions originated
581,000
website visitor sessions
€2,929,817
in donations