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During the 2016 tours across India, Amma gave saplings to villagers to encourage them to start “greening” their dwelling spaces.

We explore the next stage in the evolution of traditional mud blocks called Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks (CSEBs)–a building method that combines traditional wisdom and modern approach.

Carrying a handful of seeds blessed by Amma, Amrita SeRVe sevites visited our village in Andhra Pradesh to initiate a small tree nursery.

Fifty students and five faculty members from Amrita University joined together to serve in Komalikudy during the Telugu new year at the end of February.

“All villages should be like this,” said Amma to the 24 women from nine different states who completed health worker training at the end of February. The program focuses on how to take a holistic approach to improve the health of people in villages.

In Bihar, people face some of the most difficult life challenges: poverty casts a huge shadow, malnutrition is commonly found and the community faces long delays in development.

Kalinagar, West Bengal has a literacy rate of 62%, however, most children drop out of school after 8th standard because they need to work.

Twenty women came to Amritapuri for a two-week course in tailoring and crochet via upcycling. The students from Amrita SeRVe villages were taught how to take old and discarded materials and make them into new things—things that can often be sold for a higher price.

In our village, we don’t have a hospital or medical centre. When someone is not well, it is very difficult to get proper care,” explains Gopiya from Indpur, Himachal Pradesh.