Category: Community Out Reach
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Free marriage ceremonies – Amritavarsham 71
After the couples tied the knot and exchanged garlands, Amma lovingly instructed them to feed each other a piece of chocolate, symbolizing her prayer that their lives together be as sweet as the moment.
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Amma conducts free weddings
During Amritavarsham 70, Amma conducts free mass marriages for couples facing financial challenges.
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Celebrating transformation, cultural heritage, and Amma’s impact
34-year journey was celebrated with traditional rituals, music, and a focus on preserving cultural heritage.
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Saukhyam receives Niti Aayog’s Women Transforming India Awards 2021
Amma started the Saukhyam Reusable Pads project in 2017, so that women and girls have a much better product for menstrual hygiene under the Amrita SeRVe program. Today the initiative is a full-fledged social enterprise creating jobs and enhancing rural economies. Many health and education related problems women and girls face in low-income communities can…
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AmritaSREE enters 17th year; ₹85 crore financial aid for COVID-19 relief
Take up the reins of your life firmly in your own hands and move forward. This is the role model we should follow. Even though those people did not have much, they had the attitude to contribute
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Remembering the path we have travelled – 30 years of love and gratitude at Amma’s orphanage
At a time when we witness a deterioration in basic human values, abiding in those very values you tried to share love and brotherhood among all. Children like you are Amma’s wealth and joy.
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The Galupa homeland project launched Amma Australia
26 Sep 2019 – AmritaVarsham 66 The Galupa Homeland Project will assist young, vulnerable Indigenous women living in the Northern Territory of Australia. In collaboration with the nonprofit organisation “Traditional Cultural Practices” — the Project will connect young Indigenous women with local Yolngu elders. These elders will teach the young women traditional arts and inspire…
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Giving drinking water- a turning point in life
Thirty-one students from 14 Universities in Japan, from International Volunteers of University Student Association IVUSA, worked alongside 12 of Amrita University’s Masters of Social Work (MSW) students and faculty members to deploy clean drinking water filters in 31 flood-hit communities in the Kerala State districts of Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta, in February 2019. The effort was…
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A sea of humanity comprising
The Amrita SREE movement of SHGs seeks to empower women,by making them self-reliant.
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Flood relief and overflowing compassion – Amritavarsham charitable projects
27 September 2018, Amritapuri The 65th Birthday Celebrations of Amma were focused on helping Kerala recover from the recent monsoon floods. Both Amma’s annual birthday address {news}, as well as several of the function’s charitable initiatives, were aimed at uplifting victims of the flood, which took the lives of nearly 500 people in August. Following…