Category: Disaster Relief

  • 88 houses in Cuddalore handed over to recipients

    4 September 2005 — Pudukuppam, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu Today Swami Ramakrishnananda handed over the keys to 88 new homes to the government official, who, in turn, presented the keys to the happy recipients of new homes built by the Ashram in the village of Pudukuppam. These homes are the first to be completed by…

  • Ashram concludes relief work for flood

    Ashram concludes relief work for flood

    Victims in Mumbai 29 August 2005 — Mumbai, Maharashtra The Ashram has completed its relief work in Mumbai, where it has spent the past three weeks providing food, essential supplies and medical aid to victims of the monsoon-spawned flooding. Dr. Chandrasekhar, a brahmachari based at the Amrita Kripa Charitable Hospital in Amritapuri, was one of…

  • Macabre monsoon in Mumbai: MAM into relief efforts

    It was supposed to be the monsoon. But it seemed more like the deluge. Four days of continuous rains that began on July 26th, 2005, flooded the state of Maharashtra. Mumbai, its capital city, was most badly affected. 94.4 cm of rain fell in Mumbai on a single day, the highest rainfall recorded not only…

  • First 25 Tsunami homes finished in Kanyakumari

    28 August 2005 — Parapattru, Kalkulam Taluk, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu The Ashram has finished the construction of 25 homes for tsunami-affected families in Kanyakumari, the second-most devastated area in India. The houses will be inaugurated and the residents will move in around 9 September. The homes are in Parapattru, a village near Mandakkadu, in…

  • Amrita Setu – connecting Alappad with Vallikkavu

    28 August 2005 — Alappad Panchayat, Kollam District, Kerala Artist’s rendition of the bridge that will connect Alappad and Vallikkavu Anyone who has ever climbed up to the roof of the 16-storey ashram flats knows how breathtaking the view is. From that height, two things become clear: the ashram possesses the only multi-storeyed buildings as…

  • All 150 houses in Alappuzha completed

    26 August 2005 — Alappuzha District, Kerala The Ashram has finished the construction of all the houses it is building for tsunami victims in the Alappuzha District of Kerala. Next week, the Ashram will hand over the completed houses to the government, and they, in turn, will distribute them to the recipients. The Ashram has…

  • Amma is the cultural ambassador of India

    20 August 2005 — Amritapuri Sri. Therambil Ramakrishnan, the Honourable Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, came to Amritapuri today in order to help the Ashram distribute 300 sewing machines to villagers and clothes to the children affected by the tsunami. The clothes were given to the 6,000 children from Kerala’s Alappuzha District who participated…

  • Brick by brick- rebuilding houses for tsunami victims

    Brick by brick- rebuilding houses for tsunami victims

    19 August 2005 — Vellannathuruthu, Alappad Panchayat, Kollam District, Kerala As the morning sun finds its way through the canopy of coconut trees that shade Vellannathuruthu, a group of Amma’s devotees and disciples plods back and forth along one of the seaside village’s dirt pathways carrying loads of bricks—mostly upon their heads. It’s hard work.…

  • 88 Houses completed in Cuddalore

    16 August 2005 — Pudukuppam, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu On 25 August 2005, the Ashram will hand over the 88 houses it is building in Pudukuppam, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu. The houses will be the first tsunami-reconstruction houses to be finished in Tamil Nadu State. This will make the Ashram the first organisation to finish…

  • Ashram finished first one hundred houses in Kerala

    Ashram finished first one hundred houses in Kerala

    The Ashram is the first NGO in India to finish building houses, based on the government plans, for the tsunami victims.18 July, 2005 at 6.30 pm The Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri. Oomen Chandy will be handing over the keys to the houses built in Clappana village, for people of Alappad panchayat who had…