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, [...]