AMMA Launches Humanitarian Relief in India

published by asingh on Tue, 05/13/2014 - 20:36

Last September, Mata Amritanandamayi AMMA announced two comprehensive charitable projects: a 50-crore relief project for the flood-ravaged state of Uttarakhand and a massive program adopting 101 villages throughout India.

Under Amma’s guidance, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) will build approximately 500 houses in 42 villages destroyed during last year’s Kedernath, floods. The MAM will also provide scholarships, pensions, an orphanage/care home, and a women’s empowerment program for home-based businesses for survivors from the Kedernath disaster.

In addition, the Math has undertaken it’s most massive humanitarian program in the last 30 years with theAmrita Self-Reliant Village Program (Amrita Swasrayagramam). This program will adopt 101 villages throughout India and help them become self-reliant and thriving.

Amma will the USA later this month and offer two free programsincluding inspirational music, meditation, spiritual discourse and personal blessingsonFriday, May 23,and Devi Bhava and Atma Puja on Monday, May 26, 2014 at 7:00 pm at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, Washington, USA. For more information, visit www.amma.org/tours, and to learn more about Amma’s humanitarian projects, visit www.embracinghtheworld.org .