In India, the Mata

Amṛtānandamayī 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.
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

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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.
 Amritanandamayi 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 t ṛ ānandamayī 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