To Serve:The highest ideal

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it,
live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, 
be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. 
This is the way to success.-Swami Vivekananda

India’s sole lies in its villages and if the villages are destroyed ,

the nation decays,its culture and its vibrancy is lost.

If the nation has to prosper, its villages have to be preserved.

If the villages are self reliant, the culture retains and the nation 

prospers and there is happiness around.

The major source of  livelihood for the villages is agriculture.

And the failure of one crop often leads to starvation and 

farmer suicides.Many villages still do not have access to 

clean drinking water and electricity. The picture of healthcare 

and sanitation is also glim.The infant mortality rate is very alarming.

These villages need to be preserved in its entirety. They have 

to be made self sufficient in all respects such that there is no 

need for migration of people from villages to cities.Only then 

can the nation retain its essence and prosper.

There has to be a doctor in each village,villages need to have 

access to clean drinking water and toilets.Villages need to be 

skilled in alternate professions like sewing ,carpentry,pumbing,

construction so that lack of rainfall or crop failure do not rob 

them of their livelihood.

Shree Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, an epitome of experience 

and embodiment of compassion, though her project Amrita Serve

 is trying to build gaps in 101 villages all over India .Amrita Serve 

has adopted these villages with the aim to make each of them self
reliant.There have been committees of villagers made consisting of
women as well as youth in order to propel the activities,be it
skill transfer or solar powered electricity.

The project also provides students of Amrita and volunteers 

with an opportunity to serve in turn bridging the gaps and 

also leading to effective innovations.

The mission of the project is to preserve the essence of India 
by making villages self reliant by empowering the villagers