The Catskill Chronicle

HURLEYVILLE, NY (September 25, 2011) – Arnold Drogen (at left), a trustee of the SYDA Foundation, presents a $10,000 check to Jim Sullivan, chairman of the Hurleyville Board of Fire Commissioners.

This is the third donation of  $10,000 by the SYDA Foundation, which in 2008 committed to giving $50,000 over a period of five years.

The money helps to fund a pump truck, purchased by Hurleyville in 2007.

The SYDA Foundation, headquartered in the Town of Fallsburg, is a not-for-profit organization that makes Siddha Yoga meditation available to students around the world.

The Foundation is also known in Sullivan County for its philanthropic organization, the PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program (CDHP). Since its inception in 1996, PRASAD CDHP has provided dental care for more than 62,000 children in Sullivan and Ulster counties.