Category: Nature Care
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Reforestation at the French Ashram
29 Oct 2008, France GreenFriends France taken up a reforestation project to make the French Ashram a place where devotees and visitors can get in touch with nature and develop a deep sense of unity with. The reforesting of the property is one of the steps which will help bring about this new perception. A…
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AYUDH – UK is starting a garden project
London, 29 Oct 2008, AYUDH group in UK while celebrating their 1st anniversary, started a garden project as part of GreenFriends in an effort to grow fruits in their own private gardens. This project is an effort to raise awareness that one need to produce one’s own food and a little extra for others too.…
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The Future in Our Hands
AYUDH Europe Youth Exchange 2008 The 4th annual European Youth Exchange held at the M.A. Center in Germany saw the arrival of a lot of young people from all parts of European countries to participate in a 6 day program led by Br Shubamrita and Bri. Dipamrita. For the second time, the program was co-funded…
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Blessing a Child of the Survivor Tree
29 June 2008 — Addison, Texas, USA The terrorist bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building on April 19, 1995 took the lives of 168 people and scarred thousands more physically and emotionally. Despite the massive blast and subsequent fires, a 100-year-old American Elm Tree, part of the building’s original landscaping, survived. At the insistence…
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Vriksha Raksha Bandhan
18 Sep 2007, Amritapuri During the two festivals “Raksha Bandhan (or ‘Rakhi’)” and “Bhaidooj” sisters and brothers show their love and respect for each other by tying a thread around their sibling’s right wrist. This morning, over 400 students at Amrita University’s Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and BioTech Colleges had gathered to participate in a…
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Greenshore: Protecting Kerala’s coast by making it green
17 August 2005 — Alappad Panchayat, Kollam District, Kerala As the sun set on the beach in Cheriya Azhikkal–a village in Alappad Panchayat, five kilometres from Amritapuri–villagers gathered to plant hundreds of small casuarina saplings (Australian pine). The saplings are being planted with the aim of curbing erosion caused by high tides and to protect…
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Vrischikam onnu, vriksham onnu
16 November 2005 — Kerala Mass scale sapling planting by AYUDH AYUDH, the youth wing of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, and GreenFriends, the Ashram’s environmental group, jointly organized a programme of planting 100,000 trees across the state of Kerala on November 16 to coincide with the first of the Malayalam month of Vrischikam. The programme…