Category: Disaster Relief
disaster relief efforts of MAM
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Amma’s Babies
This afternoon, a young Indian couple came up to Amma for Darshan holding their new-born twins. They wanted to Amma to give them names. These babies (a boy and a girl) weren’t just any newborns. They were representative of the immense love and compassion that Amma has blessed the tsunami-affected people of India and Sri Lanka. Sreejit and Liji had lost both their young children in the tsunami and could not re-conceive because Liji had had her tubes tied. Amma offered Liji the opportunity to have the surgery reversed, and to pay for all the costs, including seeing her through…
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Devotees help Hurricane Rita victim
We drove down to southern Louisiana to help Vidya try to salvage what she could from her home that got hit with the storm surge from Hurricane Rita. The town she lives in – Abbeville, Louisiana – is approximately 15 miles inland and about 50 miles east of where the eye of the storm hit. As we traveled further south and west, getting closer to where the eye of the storm hit, the landscape looked more and more like a tsunami had struck. Homes were pushed many feet from their foundations – others were completely gone. Huge trees were uprooted…