Kerala-based charity to launch 2 major projects in Uttarakhand

Two big charitable projects--a Rs 50-crore relief-and-rehabilitation project in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand and a programme to adopt 101 villages throughout India--were announced by Mata Amritanandamayi Math today.
"In Uttarakhand, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math will build approximately 500 houses destroyed by the disaster," said vice-chairman of Math Swami Amritaswarupananda here.
He said these will be the totality of homes destroyed in 42 villages in the districts of Rudraprayag and Uttarkashi.
The Swami also the Math would also provide scholarships to poor children, pension to widows and handicapped people, besides building an orphanage for children who no longer have a proper care structure in place in the hill state.

It will also help empower women by assisting them to set up home-based Self Help Group businesses, he said.
Besides this, the Math would also adopt 101 villages throughout India with the aim of helping them become self -reliant and thriving, the Swami said.
"In order to accomplish this, the Math will draw upon the totality of the humanitarian programmes it has undertaken over the past 30 years," the Swami said of the programme called the Amrita Self-Reliant Village Programme (Amrita Swasrayagramam).