Initiatives by

Mata
Amritanandmayi
Devi
 Food
In India, the Mata Amṛā t nandamayī Math

provides 10 million free meals to poor

people annually via its various centres.

Likewise, Embracing the World feed

more than 150,000 annually in North

America through 49 centres that conduct

a program called "Mother’s Kitchen",

started in 1987. Other feed-the-hungry

programs exist in Mexico, Costa Rica,

France, Spain, Kenya, Brazil, Slovenia and

Australia.The Math is also currently

deploying filtration systems with the

goal of providing clean drinking water in

5,000 village centres throughout India,

which would provide water purification

to 10 million villagers.
 Healthcare
The Mata Amritanandamayi Math manages

the 1,100-bed super-speciality hospital

Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in

Kochi, which it launched in 1998, as well as

several other free healthcare clinics,

medicine dispensaries, hospices in India. It is

also in the process of constructing a 2,000-

bed hospital in Delhi NCR.In total, the math

has provided totally free medical care and

surgeries to more than four million people

since 1998. This includes super-specialty

surgeries including heart surgeries, brain

surgeries and kidney transplants.. Aside

from free treatment, Amrita Institute

provides care on a sliding scale, allowing

people to pay what they can afford. This is

often a minimal percent of the total medical

cost.
 Shelter
Since 1998, the Mata

Amritanandamayi Math has

constructed over 47,000

houses for the homeless in

75 locations throughout

India It also runs an

orphanage for 500 children

in Kerala, and Embracing

the World manages a

children’s home in Nairobi.

 Education
Am ṛā
t nandamay ī is founder and chancellor of

Amrita University, a six-campus, multi-

disciplinary research university that in 2020

was ranked as the fourth-best university in

India by NIRF, is accredited with an 'A' grade

by NAAC, and was selected as an "Institute of

Eminence" by the Indian Government in

2019.Under her guidance, the university puts a

strong focus on research-and-development to

uplift the sick and poor. The Mata

Am ṛāt nandamay ī Math also runs a scholarship

program that currently provides 50,000

scholarships for economically challenged

children throughout India, and Embracing the

World provides scholarships outside of India

in times of need, such as in the wake of

Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.