20 December 2005 — Samanthampettai, Nagore, Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu
“When difficult circumstances arise in life, there are two ways to respond. We can either run away in fear or kindle the love within and try to overcome,” Amma said. She was talking to the 60,000 people or so who’d come to have her darshan in [...]

26 June 2005, Amritapuri
“Amma’s hands of goodness inspired tsunami relief and rehabilitation activities in the state” said Mr. Oommen Chandy, Kerala Chief  Minister at a function in Amritapuri. “Endowed with a big heart, symbolising  the goodness of the society, Amma has completed the construction of Tsunami houses at a fast pace” said Mr. Chandy in [...]

25 June 2005
The Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala, Sri. Oomen Chandy will be handing over the keys to another 89 houses built for people of Arattupuzha Panchayat, Alappuzha District who had lost their homes in the tsunami. The ashram delegates will first present the keys to the Honourable Chief Minister. With this the total number [...]

13 May 2005 — Trivandrum, Kerala
On the first night of Amma’s Trivandrum Brahmasthanam Festival, Amma handed once again handed over keys to houses. But these keys were given not given to the poor, but to the government. The 10 homes were constructed to serve as much-needed halfway houses for patients of the Mental Hospital of [...]

9 April 2005 — Trissur Ashram
Tomorrow Amma will install and consecrate the murti for Her 18th Brahmasthanam Temple. But tonight She handed house keys over to 10 of the Trissur District’s poor. The keys are representative of 100 houses the Ashram is constructing here as part of its Amrita Kuteeram project to build 100,000 free [...]

Among the hundreds of volunteers who come to help during Amma’s program in Chennai there is a ’special’ group. They are the residents of Amma’s Amritakuteeram housing project in Avadi, located on the outskirts of the city. You cannot tell them apart from any of the other volunteers because at first glance they look just [...]

Monday, 1 March 2004 — Pune, Maharashtra
Mata Amritanandamayi Math, in connection with the local and central government, is in the process of rehabilitating slum dwellers of Ajanta Nagar. The project involves the construction of 27 blocks of four- and five-story apartment buildings where on top of what used to be a nine-acre slum.
Walking around with [...]

Vellanure Village, Chennai
M.A.M Chenai started an Amritakuteeram project to build houses for the poor and disabled in Vellanure.
Sambandan, an ex-train driver, and volunteer at the Madras Ashram, assists Br.Vinayamrita and gives all his time to co-ordinating the project. He said, “We sifted through 2,000 original applications and after lots of consideration we visited 100 homes [...]

The housing colony at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, made up of 161 homes in an enclosed area, is one of Amma’s offerings to the homeless and destitute.
Here you can see the entrance to the prayer hall. Other amenities inside the colony include a dispensary and an education centre.
A spacious courtyard greets the visitor to the [...]

The Mata Amritanandamayi Math first began trying to initiate projects in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, in 1998. But various obstacles always arose. But as the saying goes, ‘if you keep knocking, the door will open; even if it’s not the targeted one’. In a similar manner, though the Math was focusing on Kolkata, [...]