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For the youth volunteers it was an opportunity to practise what Amma means when she speaks about ‘compassion in action’.    The AYUDH chapter with Amma...
Volunteers throughout France visit urban streets on a weekly basis to meet the people living there. By building long-term relationships, the goal is to...
The inauguration of potable water systems under Amrita’s ongoing ‘Jivamritam: Clean Drinking Water Project’ took place at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and...
The remote-controlled device can carry three 20-litre bottles at once and is helping make locals' lives easier. On world water day, researchers at Amrita University...
Seventy-one college students from 20 universities in Japan are among those who have made Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Jivamritam Project, an initiative to bring clean...
The Jivamritam water filtration system was designed by faculty and students of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and launched by the President of India, Sri Ram...
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Many villages like Sadivayal, Tamil Nadu and Ratanpur, Bihar, have received Amrita Water Distribution Systems which relieve the physical stress, time, danger, and inconvenience...
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Water scarcity has been a major thrusting issue in rural India, warranting a high demand to design and implement different water distribution networks. Polluted...
Clean drinking water is often difficult to obtain in rural India. Although some villages have an Amrita water distribution system and villagers received training...

Shelter

At the Amma Center in Pontgouin, France, members are developing an ecovillage on a neighboring property. Their goal is to live nearby to support the...
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Galupa is a tract of land along the shore of Gove Peninsula in North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. It is the traditional homeland...
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The village of Valaramkunnu in the Wayanad district of Kerala, consists of four tribes that live in six different locations on a mountain. Even...
In order to participate in the rehabilitation efforts, a group of 73 students came down from all over Japan to the flood-ravaged areas. Chandrapuri...
The beneficiaries are the flood-hit in Raichur district Mata Amritanandamayi Math, which handed over 242 houses to flood victims of Raichur district in 2010, has...
Amma is starting an orphanage in Haiti in order to care of children who lost their relatives in the earthquake of 12 January 2010. A...

Healthcare

The initiative especially focuses on reaching young and school-going girls to eradicate the shame, heavy stigma, and misconception that menstruation carries. UNESCO India and...
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For Amma, Amrita Hospital’s foundation is laid upon the stone of compassion. As of today, it has provided ₹816 crore ($105 million) of free...
Sri Amit Shah, Hon’ble Minister of Home Affairs, Govt of India, was the Chief Guest at the Silver Jubilee Celebrations and expressed that Amma...
Hon’ble Home Minister Amit Shah, Govt of India, to inaugurate the celebrations on June 4th at Amrita Hospital, Kochi.   As part of its Silver Jubilee...
The discussions took place at Amrita Hospital, Faridabad and have proven vital to drafting a well-rounded policy pack for India’s G20 Summit in September.  The...
Haryana’s Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Manohar Lal inaugurated the state-of-the-art facility with 150 MBBS seats, located inside the sprawling campus of Amrita Hospital.  Opening new...
The new facilities include a CT scanner, ambulance, physiotherapy and lab equipment, and the establishment of a satellite clinic in an isolated area.    The...
Our project in Africa with Visio Sense Fronteres, Spain partnered with Don Bosco Fambul in Sierra Leone to carry out 134 cataract surgeries. The...
As digital networks continue to evolve, telemedicine is rapidly expanding its reach between healthcare providers and patients. Amrita Hospital, Kochi hosted this year’s International...
Dr. Krishna Kumar with Amrita Hospital, Kochi has been granted the prestigious Sitaram Jaipuria Foundation Award for Excellence in Medicine and Healthcare. As an internationally...

Livelihood

Three thousand women who belong to Amrita SREE self-help groups (SHGs) gathered in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district for their annual meeting. The...
"Mata Amritanandamayi is a radiant expression of love, and this love can be seen through the Amrita SREE initiative,” said MK Raghavan, Kozhikode MP...
Sunny Joseph, MLA for Peravoor in Kannur, Kerala, said that true women’s empowerment must include economic independence. Joseph is a member of the Indian...
NA Nellikunkun, MLA in Kasaragod, said that whenever society faces crises, it is very comforting to see Amma come forward with loving help. Nellikunkun...
TN Prathapan, Thrissur Member of Parliament, said Amrita SREE is a shining example of how to face the poverty of love from which our world...
Members of Amrita SREE self-help groups are taking big steps forward in terms of empowering women overall, said Thomas Chazhikadan. He is the MP...
Kerala's Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development inaugurated a second gathering for the annual meeting of AmritaSREE SHGs in the Kollam district. Another 10,000 members...
Women with AmritaSREE Self-Help Groups in Kerala’s Alappuzha District gathered in the town of  Kayamkulam for their annual meeting. Aid was distributed to more...
An AmritaSREE event to celebrate the 18th year of the Math's self-help group initiative took place in Amritapuri. Seven thousand women who belong to AmritaSREE...
The event was the launch of this year’s initiative to reach more than two lakh women who belong to the 13,000+ self-help groups in...

Education

The participation of citizens from 106 countries over the last few months shows that diverse cultural traditions are a source of strength to share...
Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri emphasised that our education system needs a total revamp so that it can create more compassionate people, more who express love...
A team representing the Amrita-led Civil 20 Education and Digital Transformation Working Group (EDT WG) participated in the Inaugural Global 20 (G20) Education Working...
Nairobi, Kenya  The university is connecting with institutions of higher learning to share free-of-cost access to virtual and simulated laboratory experiments.     Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has...
COVID-19 brought forward a challenge to India’s education system as never seen before. When the nationwide lockdown came into effect on March 22nd, all...
A total of 480 students, the victims of typhoon Haiyan-Yolanda in Philippines in 2013 who received scholarships from the Amrithanandamayi Math,   have graduated...
Five young survivors of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake who have been receiving Embracing the World scholarships since then wrote a letter to Amma after...
At an event organised at Mata Amritanandamayi Devi Math in Mahendra Hills, as many as 1,000 students were awarded educational scholarships and 500 widows...
Mata Amritanandamayi Math extended the reach of its Vidyamritam Scholarships for the underprivileged by another 5,000. Vidyamritam started in 2007 and, through it, 46,000 children...
27 Sep 2012, Amritapuri – Amma’s 59th Birthday celebrations Vidyamritam, free educational scholarships-for-the-poor program was expanded from 37,000 to 40,000 beneficiaries. K.C. Venugopal, Central Minister...