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More than two years have passed since the Amrita SeRVe (Self Reliant Village) project was launched during Amma’s 60th birthday celebrations in September 2013, ushering in sustainable development in village clusters all over the country.

Education is one of Amrita SeRVe’s main focus areas, as children are our future. Amrita CREATE— Amrita Centre for Research in Advanced Technologies—runs Amrita Education Centres in all of our villages.

What do technology and toilets have in common? AMMACHI Labs has found a way to use technology to address some of India’s biggest challenges: water safety, sanitation and hygiene.

In village life in India, collecting water can be a tremendous chore—a chore which is, for the most part, placed upon the shoulders of women and girls.

Sometimes when we live around Amma, events of true giving arise from places of such compassion, it never ceases to surprise. The results go beyond what could’ve even been imagined. The story of Pandit Arun Sharmaji is one of these stories.

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.

During a speech at the United Nations, Amma expressed her hope that university students all over the world would consider interning in villages.

Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri visits two villages to monitor progress and hear from local residents about what else is needed. In each place, he was careful to speak to the villagers in detail as they took turns to explain their problems to him.

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.

Harirampura was so isolated, during monsoon it used to be cut off completely due to floods. After starting work there in 2013, things began to rapidly change for the better.