Amma and her mission—boundless love for humanity & a global spiritual light

A super-specialty hospital with 1,100 beds in Kochi, Kerala. Another, located 2,500 km away in Faridabad, Haryana, with 2,600 beds, in a massive 3.6 million square feet structure.

- S GURUMURTHY

Free medical care, heart and brain surgeries for more than 4 million people who wouldn’t afford it. And for others, for what they can afford to pay. A government project or corporate charity? No.

A pension scheme for widows and destitutes now benefitting 1,00,000 families and counting. A state welfare scheme? No. A free meal scheme for 10 million annually. A public welfare scheme? No. Over 47,000 houses built and given to the homeless, and racing towards a target of 1,00,000 houses. A housing scheme of any government, state, or Union? No.

Over 80 schools, colleges, and institutions of excellence with 4,100 teachers and 86,000 students, with a scholarship scheme benefitting 50,000 students across India. A big corporate CSR project? No.

An aggregate of $75 million for disaster relief for 2001 Gujarat Earth Quake, 2004 Tsunami, Katrina Hurricane, 2005 Gujarat Flood, 2005 Maharashtra Flood, 2008 Bihar Flood, 2009 Cyclone Ala, 2010 Haiti Earth Quake, 2011 Tohoku Earth Quake, Tsunami, 2013 North India floods, 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, 2014 Pakistan India floods, 2015 Nepal Earth Quake 2015 South Indian floods 2016 the Puttingal Temple fire 2017 Hurricane Maria 2017 Cyclone Ockhi 2018 Kerala floods, 2019 Kerala floods. Any multilateral agency relief programme? No.

A ₹100 crore donation to the Swachh Bharat Mission of the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Any billionaire’s philanthropy? No.