
ALL
Varanasi
Sustenance
Initiative
This is a dedicated, specialized initiative that aims to contribute to the Asian Legacy Library and Varanasi Preservation Center to support the critical work of saving timeless wisdom and the sustainability of the organization’s needs.
PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE
CAUSE N°01
Asian Legacy Library
The Asian Legacy Library’s mission is to join technology and scholarship to locate, preserve, share, and translate some of the world’s most precious collections of cultural wisdom heritage. These scholars, technologists, and input operators have contributed to providing ALL with the majority of its library’s content and the central foundation of ALL’s mission is its digital infrastructure.
The ALL digital library is a public online virtual library that makes available an incredible collection of literary wisdom heritage to the world, for free.
ALL currently partners with seven preservation operations located across Mongolia, Nepal, and India. These multi-disciplinary teams contribute a combination of skills within the preservation process, whether it be scanning, inputting, cataloging, or distributing.

CAUSE N°02
VARANASI, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA
Varanasi Preservation Center
Under the directorship of the talented Dr. Santosh Dwivedi, who has worked with ALL for 16 years, he is responsible for the oversight of the operations in India.
ALL searches for these original Sanskrit manuscripts, now in public and private collections throughout the world. The team of highly trained input operators primarily works on the Sanskrit input into e-text—the laborious process of keying in, character by character, the content of works. The input process makes the texts searchable so that researchers, scholars, and translators can search the content of works, locating phrases, terms, people, and places. Lastly, preserved texts are translated into other languages, making their content relevant and usable for modern life.
THE IMPACTS
Employment & Welfare Benefits
Varanasi is considered one of the poorest cities in India where the average annual salary can run as low as $2000 per year. ALL give employment to women who are generally not given jobs because of the culture. They make a standard wage based on a 25-hour work week which is an enormous benefit for a family to have an extra income. ALL also takes care of the entire staff’s health insurance policy which is generally not ever offered in such positions in Varanasi. There are a total of 7 full-time staff, and 3 part-timers in the center.
Nurturing the Next Generation
The project of saving these important wisdom traditions has a wonderful karmic element for the staff as they are doing important work for future generations to benefit from.

It is vital to help ALL and Varanasi Preservation Center so they could continue the preservation works of saving timeless wisdom for future generations, and at the same time, providing sustainable livelihoods for the local community.
giving with wisdom & love
Please Support our Causes
Your contribution will go towards supporting these 2 causes; the Asian Legacy Library and Varanasi Preservation Center.
The funds will support the Varanasi Preservation Center’s operating costs including staff salaries, medical coverage, skills training, purchase of new equipment, and general expenses.
The funds to ALL will be distributed equally across domestic and international operations and used for ALL’s mission to locate, digitally preserve, and safeguard some of the world’s most precious collections of cultural literary wisdom heritage.