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Amma: Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

Founder, Embracing the World

Founder, Mata Amritanandamayi Math

Founder, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS Hospital)

Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University)


Spiritual leader, humanitarian and visionary Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known throughout the world simply as "Amma", has served the world-community for decades, imparting wisdom, strength and inspiration. Through her extraordinary acts of love, inner strength and self-sacrifice, Amma has endeared herself to millions and inspired thousands to follow in her path of selfless service.

Truly a citizen of the world, Mata Amritanandamayi holds free public programs throughout India, Europe, the United States and Australia, as well Japan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Africa and South America. In her talks, she offers words of wisdom and guidance on both personal fulfillment as well as the most pressing matters of our time. From climate change to terrorism, crosscultural tensions to poverty and women's rights, Amma's observations invite each of us to get involved in the process of rebuilding a concerned and caring society.

To this day, Mata Amritanandamayi concludes her programs by embracing each person attending the event. Far from a brief book-signing or walk along the rope line, these personal, one-on-one meetings take up the vast majority of Amma's time. Amma has given this motherly embrace, known as her darshan, to more than 40 million people throughout the world. She has been known to give darshan for more than 22 hours without interruption.

The most personally accessible spiritual leader alive today, Mata Amritanandamayi may well be on a first-name basis with more people than anyone else in the world. When people pour out their hearts to Amma, she offers them emotional solace, spiritual guidance, and concrete solutions to their problems. Receiving Amma's embrace, many feel inspired to offer selfless service to those in need. In this way, this simple yet powerful act as a mother's embrace - has become both catalyst and symbol for the growing international network of humanitarian initiatives that is Embracing the World.


By her emphasis on selfless service and charity, Amma will, I believe, hugely influence the future world. - Brother Dr. Wayne Teasdale, PhD, Catholic Monk, Former Trustee, Parliament of the World’s Religions

– Brother Dr. Wayne Teasdale, PhD

Catholic Monk, Former Trustee, Parliament of the World’s Religions

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Embracing the World is a global network of
charitable projects conceived by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math
(an NGO with Special Consultative Status to the United Nations)

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Related Sites
  • Amma.org
  • Amrita University
  • Amrita Hospitals
  • Amrita Self-Reliant Villages
  • Amrita SREE SHGs
  • AmritaCREATE
  • Live-in-Labs
  • GreenFriends
  • AYUDH India
  • AYUDH Europe
  • AYUDH Americas
Stay in Touch
  • Local ETW groups
  • ETW in the Media
Downloads
  • ETW Humanitarian Overview (2020)
  • ETW eBook (2019)
  • Amma: Bio (2020)
  • Amma: Factsheet (2019)
  • Pray & Serve: Amma and the Tsunami (2007)
  • 40 Years of Amrita Yoga (2022)
  • AYUDH: Generation of Peace (2019)

Humanitarian Projects

Food
  • 10 Million Meals Every Year, India
  • Nairobi, Kenya
  • San Jose, Costa Rica
  • Cancun, Mexico
  • North America
  • Kenya
  • Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
  • Southern France
  • Granollers, Spain
Shelter
  • 100,000 Homes for the Homeless, India
  • Orphanage for 500 Children, India
  • Relocating Slumdwellers, India
  • Amrita Watoto Boma Children's Home
Healthcare
  • Amrita Hospital
  • Medical Camps
  • Satellite Hospitals
  • HIV/AIDS Health Clinic
  • Public Health
  • Telemedicine
  • Cataract Surgeries in Kenya
Education
  • 100,000 Scholarships for Children
  • Award-winning Adult Education
  • After School programs
  • School for Hearing Impaired
  • School for Differently-Abled
  • Amrita University
Livelihood
  • Empowering Women
  • Lifetime Financial Aid
  • Traditional Arts School
  • Industrial Training Center
  • Vocational Training Center
Environment
  • Planting Trees
  • Home and Community Gardens
  • Reducing, Reusing, Recycling
  • Clean India Campaign
  • Environmental Education
  • Sustainable Communities
Emergencies
  • COVID-19, 2020
  • Floods in Kerala, 2018
  • Cylcone in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, 2017
  • Earthquake in Nepal, 2015
  • Floods in Tamil Nadu, 2015
  • Floods in Jammu & Kashmir, 2014
  • Landslides in North and South India, 2013
  • Typhoon in The Philippines, 2013
  • Fire Disasters in South India, 2012
  • Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, 2011
  • Haiti Earthquake, 2010
  • Karnataka & Andhra Pradesh Floods, 2009
  • Cyclone Aila, 2009
  • Bihar Floods, 2008
  • Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  • Mumbai Floods, 2005
  • Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
  • Gujarat Earthquake, 2001
Research
  • Wireless Technology for Landslide Detection
  • Groundbreaking Nanotechnology
  • Human-Computer Interaction for Everyone
  • Fighting an Epidemic with Biotechnology
  • Virtual Laboratories
  • Wearable Technology for Health and Safety
  • Tablet-based Learning for Rural Children
  • Open and Distance Learning
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