Category: Community Out Reach

  • Amma receives in her feet every thorn of this earth

    Amma receives in her feet every thorn of this earth

    28 April – Edappalli, Ernakulam Brahmasthanam Festival, Kerala – Bharata Yatra 2007 With Kerala steeped in the summer heat, Amma began her short tour of central Kerala this week, visiting first her ashram and Brahmasthanam Temple in Edappalli, Ernakulam. The heat was oppressive, but each night it rained, the temperatures dropped down, bringing external relief alongside with Amma’s…

  • Come to Amma, go back with self-confidence

    Come to Amma, go back with self-confidence

    15 March — Shivaji Park, Mumbai, Maharashtra – Bharata Yatra 2007 Amma’s programs in Shivaji Park came right after the Ashram’s announcement of Amma’s spontaneous pledge of Rs. 200 crores [$45.4 million U.S] to curb suicide among farmers in Maharashtra, Kerala and other parts of India {news}. During the formal part of the program, one…

  • Rs. 200 crore project to curb farmer suicide

    Rs. 200 crore project to curb farmer suicide

    Amma deeply concerned about suicide among farmers 15 March 2007 — Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh held a high-level meeting with Amma at the Sahyadri government guest house here on Thursday on the issue of suicides by farmers of Vidarbha. After the meeting Amma announced that the Ashram will undertake an Rs.…

  • Education & heart surgeries for Hyderabad’s street kids

    8 March — Mahendra Hills,  Hyderabad-Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh — Bharata Yatra 2007 Just before Amma’s first evening program in her Secunderabad ashram, she gave audience to the area’s district collector and magistrate, R.V. Chandravadan. During that meeting, Chandravadan put forth several requests to Amma on behalf of the Hyderabad District Administration—all of to which Amma…

  • Karunanidhi: Amma is a pearl among humans

    Karunanidhi: Amma is a pearl among humans

    Karunanidhi: “Amma is a Pearl among humans” 31 January — Nagapattanam, Tamil Nadu – Bharata Yatra 2007 “The Tamil Nadu Government and its people are extremely happy at the way in which the Mata Amritanandamayi Math has gone about in wiping the tears from the eyes of those fishermen who lost their houses and belongings…

  • Amrita Setu – bridge seva

    17 September 2006 — Amritapuri For a long time there was “sand seva.” Then, later it was “brick seva.” Now it is “bridge seva.” Towards the end of darshan on the 16th, Amma asked all the ashramites to come in the morning and help mix the concrete and pour the girders for the deck of…

  • Foundation stone laid for 100 tsunami-relief houses

    10 September 2006 — Bamboo Flat, South Andaman, Andaman Islands The Ashram laid the first foundation stone for the 100 tsunami-relief houses it has committed to build in Bamboo Flat, South Andaman. Sri Dharam Pal IAS, the Commissioner-cum-Secretary for Relief & Rehabilitation in Nicobar-Andaman, laid the stone as part of a brief function. It is…

  • 284 houses more to Tsunami victims

    27 August 2006 — Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu In the past two days, the Ashram has handed over a  284 houses more to tsunami victims in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu–120 in Pandagassaalai (a hamlet in Pattinacherry Village) and 164 in Akarapettai. Swami Ramakrishnananda handed over the keys of the homes to the district collector of Nagapattinam, Tenkasi…

  • Serve just one hour a day

    Serve just one hour a day

    10 August 2006 — Amritapuri Amma says that if everyone in the world were to spend just one hour a day in selfless service, we could change the face of the earth. Students attending classes at Amrita University have been taking Amma’s words to heart, and recently they started a collective called Amrita Sanjeevani, with…

  • Sacrifice in Sri Lanka- a tsunami housing update

    27 May 2006 — Thekkawatta, Kalutara District, Western Province, Sri Lanka For the past seven months, a 16- x 6-foot shack has served as their office, their kitchen, their bathroom and their sleeping quarters. It is from there that they have been managing the construction of the three apartment buildings the Ashram is constructing in…