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August 2026
8 August 2026
Weekly Feeding Programs Reach Thousands Across Nairobi
Every Sunday at the Ananda Marga Mission Sectorial Office in Mountain View, Nairobi, Kenya, volunteers serve breakfast to around 2,000 people, including hot meals, bread, and milk for children and mothers.
July 2026
8 July 2026
Computer Literacy Programme Launches in South Africa
The Ananda Jayanti Master Unit in Orange Farm, South Africa, has launched a free Computer Literacy Programme for 30 local young people through its new IT Center, in partnership with the Regenesys School of Technology and the Sechaba Sothle Youth Wing.
4 July 2026
AMURTEL Conducts Menstrual Health Education for 2,400 Girls in Nigeria
As part of the annual observance of Menstrual Hygiene Day, AMURTEL conducted menstrual health and hygiene education programmes across secondary schools in Nigeria, reaching more than 2,400 girls in 21 rural schools.
3 July 2026
AMURT Installs Four Community Boreholes in Nigeria
AMURT has completed the installation of four new boreholes in rural communities across Ishielu Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, Nigeria, improving access to clean and safe drinking water for local residents.
June 2026
11 June 2026
Ananda Marga Expands Educational, Child Welfare Services in Uganda
First established in 1998, the Ananda Marga Mission Primary School in Lugazi, Uganda, has grown into a multifaceted educational project serving more than 450 students and employing 14 teachers across two schools.
April 2026
4 April 2026
Holiday school camp in South Africa
The AMSAI project in South African Republic continues working. From March 30 to April 3 there were school holidays. There was a camp organized for children aged 4-12.
February 2026
9 February 2026
The AMSAI Primary school at Ananda Jayanti Master Unit in South Africa now offers computer classes for foundation and intermediate grades
Children who have never touched a computer or heard about AI now have the opportunity to learn, ensuring they graduate keeping pace with our fast-developing world.
December 2025
20 December 2025
New Borehole Drilled to Provide Clean Water for AMSAI Primary School
A significant milestone has been achieved at the Ananda Jayanti Master Unit in Orange Farm, South Africa. Under the guidance and leadership of Dada Ratnadhisha @DadaRatnadhiisha, Dada Gunatmananda @Gunatmananda, Dada Mantrasiddhananda and Dada Krsnarjunananda a new 100-meter…
August 2025
28 August 2025
Giving Knowledge: About 30 iPads for the School in Uganda!
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May 2025
26 May 2025
AMURT Nigeria’s Health Programme: Every Life Counts
AMURT is making health care accessible and affordable in a country where 19% of all global maternal deaths occur and 1 in 10 children won’t reach their 5th birthday. AMURT Nigeria has been setting up rural health centres in some of the poorest, most remote communities of…
April 2025
18 April 2025
The Testimony of Volunteer Bocchi, Back from His Mission in Uganda
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March 2025
20 March 2025
Giving Knowledge: Volunteer Paolo Bocchi Has Left for Uganda
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10 March 2025
Three Volunteer Doctors in Africa
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7 March 2025
The Library in Uganda Is Taking Shape!
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January 2025
16 January 2025
8 Wells Built in Nigeria in About a Month
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13 January 2025
Education, Food, Clothes and Essential Goods: Amurt in Likoni!
A Future of Hope for the children of Likoni, Mombasa (Kenya)
April 2024
14 April 2024
Update from the mission in Burkina Faso
7 April 2024
Our volunteers on a mission in Burkina Faso
March 2024
February 2024
October 2023
27 October 2023
Kenya Likoni: accident with a bus carrying children
16 October 2023
A day outdoors in support of the schools of Likoni in Kenya
March 2023
31 March 2023
A solar pump in Burkina Faso
December 2022
5 December 2022
A new school inaugurated in Togo!
March 2022
13 March 2022
West Africa
Visit the AMURT (Ananda Marga Univesal Relief Team) West Africa Facebook page for the latest news on AMURT community development projects in West Africa.
June 2021
22 June 2021
Samadhi Ice Cream
Namaskar, my name is Dada Devavratananda and I am a yogic monk. I embraced the path of the yoga monk of Ananda Marga, dedicating my life to serving all living beings and teaching people to meditate. I was born in South Africa and now I stay in Berlin. This is a story that…
6 June 2021
Pomp & colour as Ananda Marga celebrates 100 birth Anniversary
It was cheers and dance as Ananda Marga Mission in Kenya celebrated the 100th Anniversary of their spiritual leader Shri Pr Sarkar aka Shrii Anadamurtijii.
October 2020
24 October 2020
Ananda Marga West Africa
In Burkina Faso our AMURT team is moving ever forward, despite the security challenges we are now facing in the Sahel Region. The conflict in Mali is beginning to affect our project areas there, which is forcing us to keep a lower profile while we wait for the situation to…
September 2020
25 September 2020
Ananda Marga KBC NEWS fire relief
More than 200 residential houses in Kibagare slums, Loresho, Nairobi were razed by fire. According to victims, the cause of the 8pm inferno is still unknown.
July 2020
5 July 2020
AMURT, Rotary Provide 30 Ebonyi Villages with Boreholes
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team (AMURT) in partnership with Rotary Club, Abakaliki have provided 30 boreholes to 30 villages in Ebonyi State as well as trained 360 villagers from the communities of Ebonyi State Nigeria on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activities…
December 2019
3 December 2019
AMURT Nigeria
AMURT Nigeria has partnered with the local Rotary Club and the Rotary Club of Italy, with support from AMURT Italy and the Rotary Foundation, to complete a new water project, bringing water to 30 villages.
April 2019
3 April 2019
AMURT team supports Cyclone Idai survivors in Mozambique
Cyclone Idai crashed into Mozambique on March 14, causing catastrophic flooding which has killed more than 500 people in the country and affected over 1 million survivors. Since then, an AMURT team has been working in partnership with the Rizwan Adatia Foundation and WF Aid to…
December 2018
27 December 2018
Amurt in Nigeria, November 2018
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March 2018
18 March 2018
Conference HWPL at UNO
Conference on Achieving Peace by Preventing Religious-Based Violence Through Inter religious Dialog was held in Uganda House of UNO on February 20 at the presence of several religious organizations, NGO’s and Ambassadors and UNO representatives. Acarya Abhiramananda Avadhuta…
14 March 2018
AMURT Nigeria Annual Report Published for 2017 – Read the highlights
AMURT Nigeria has just released their annual report for 2017 outlining all their amazing work and achievements they have made mainly in the area of maternal and newborn health. The staff works tirelessly to save lives and demonstrate huge commitment to their patients. One of…
December 2017
29 December 2017
West Africa Newsletters
Nigeria update June 2026 Nigeria update December 2025 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Report Nigeria update July 2025 Nigeria update October 2024 Nigeria update August 2024 Nigeria update December 2022 Nigeria update July 2022 Burkina Faso News 2021 Nigeria…
September 2017
19 September 2017
AMURT Nigeria – conflict in Ebonyi and Cross River State
Since January 2017 violence has escalated between villages, in August AMURT’s Offia Oji health centre was attacked and set on fire. 1200 families, 5000 children displaced by violent communal conflict *URGENT* need for *medical care* *food aid* *reconstruction of…
May 2017
January 2017
16 January 2017
More Children’s Health Care Initiative Stories
Joseph, Mtitune, Machakos County A child of 11 years had been having a persistent cough every day for two years. Her parents had tried “everything” and no treatment would help her. The symptoms would worsen every time she would touch cold water or go into a cold place. After…
December 2016
September 2016
August 2016
15 August 2016
Kenya success stories
Kenya has long been a venue for many of AMURT’s service projects over the years, but new challenges continue to affect millions of residents. Education, healthcare, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, job creation, and care for orphans and vulnerable children have all been…
September 2015
21 September 2015
Medical Mission Sisters of Korogocho slum Interim Report on Great Health Naturally therapy.
Great Health Naturally studies Korogocho Project
March 2015
11 March 2015
Ghana and Burkina Faso
Our TBAs (Traditional Birth Attendants) currently cover 33 villages. AMURT has distributed 1 ton of millet in the flood-affected area of Bangeldaye. A watershed management program was initiated to collect surface water and keep the rainwater from running off without…
11 March 2015
Nigeria
Three health centers have been opened in Ebonyi State of Nigeria: Ephenium Health Center, Omege Health Center, and Offia Oji Health Center. In Abakaliki Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, AMURT has started working on water and sanitation programs. In August we signed an…
11 March 2015
AMURT (Ananda Marga Univesal Relief Team)
AMURT (Ananda Marga Univesal Relief Team) has being carrying out a drought disaster relief operation in Kenya known as Samburo Community Assistance Project (SCAP). This video documents some aspects of the operation:
11 March 2015
Abha Light Foundation
Abha Light Foundation in Nairobi has made a big difference to many lives in Kenya through homeopathic clinics and a school:
July 2014
6 July 2014
AMURT saving lives in Nigeria
With maternal and child mortality rates amongst the highest in the world AMURT’s Primary Health Program in Ebonyi State Nigeria is saving lives. Just over a week ago a former Food for All DC Volunteer Andy Watts traveled to Abakaliki (the capital of Ebonyi) to implement a new…
July 2013
26 July 2013
AMURT (our parent organization) Global News Update
This month Peter Sage visits our child health project in Nigeria.
April 2013
21 April 2013
East Kenya: Working Towards Food Security
Toward the end of 2010 the United Nations declared a famine in the Horn of Africa, compounded by a tremendous number of refugees fleeing Somalia for East Kenya. I decided to return to Africa and see what AMURTEL could do to help provide support to the women and children in the…
March 2012
6 March 2012
The Kenya Integrated HIV/AIDS Program End Of Project Report
The Kenya Integrated HIV/AIDS Program (KIHAP) was funded by the United States Agency for International Development through a Cooperative Agreement for the period December 1, 2008 to November 30, 2011, and was implemented by AnandaMarga Universal Relief Team (AMURT).
September 2011
3 September 2011
Samburu Community Assistance Project – Kenya Drought Relief Update
Our first distribution was on October 13, 2011, in Swari, a community in the Nariminimo location in Samburu East District. The village relief committee had selected the neediest of various vulnerable groups such as but not limited to pregnant and lactating mothers, orphans,…
April 2011
1 April 2011
AMURT starts work in Nigeria
AMURT started working in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, in late 2010. We decided to focus on the health sector, as the indicators for maternal and child mortality are among the highest in the world.
March 2011
1 March 2011
Nigeria – Community Health Program
In 2010, AMURT launched a program in Nigeria aimed at developing community healthcare systems and reducing the country’s maternal mortality rate, one of the world’s highest. Providing some of Nigeria’s poorest and most rural areas with proper health facilities warrants the…
November 2010
5 November 2010
Kenya – Youth Hip Hop
Likoni Youth – Track 01 | Likoni Youth – Track 02 | Malindi Youth – Download Album
5 November 2010
Kenya: Sustainable Peer Educators
Recognizing that peer educator groups have a tendency to disband once a project ends or funding dries up, AMURT integrated income-generation activities into the mission of the Komango peer educator group as a pilot program to bolster their longevity. The group started small…
5 November 2010
Kenya – Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Read about Safari, Miriam and Boaz, three of AMURT’s success stories from Kenya
5 November 2010
Kenya – Soccer Tournaments Providing Opportunity
At the AMURT-sponsored youth resource centers so many activities take place, such as drama, rap, dance, volleyball, and classes in computer software and language, but it is the soccer program that has generated the most excitement and participation.
October 2009
28 October 2009
Mozambique – Hygiene and Sanitation
In March 2000, Amurt first went to Mozambique to respond to the floods in Xai-Xai. After the disaster phase, we constructed the roads and 254 houses in the resettlement town of Ndameine 2000.
April 2009
8 April 2009
AMURT Ghana Update April 2008
Villages in Ghana receive running water for the first time through AMURT’s community owned water project. The existing projects expand to 6 more villages and get a new roughing filter. The Seva Clinic gets a laboratory.
October 2007
9 October 2007
First Kekeli (village health promoter) training, Seva village, Ghana, July 2007.
We are working on the health education as best as we can.
October 2006
14 October 2006
Kenya
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