Village Welfare

The direct beneficiaries of Swamiji's mission for knowledge dissemination are spread worldwide. However, the Ashram, being located in a rural set-up has made significant contribution to the cultural and economic welfare of the villages around.

• About 150 village children attend weekly classes on "cultural heritage". These classes have virtually transformed the cultural climate of the village.
  
  
• Poor school children are given school uniform, exercise books, school bags, etc. every year. Some meritorious students are supported for higher studies.
  
  
• The Ashram plays a distinct role in making sanitary facilities and bathrooms, constructing wells, bore-wells and houses for the poor.
  
  
• Support is given for medical treatment and education to indigent persons and special help is given to indigent women to generate self-employment.
  
  
• Rice and clothing are offered to poor families during monthly and yearly Daana Satras. In the Annual Daana Satra in 2003, rice and cloth were given to about 18000 families spread over 250 villages.
  
  
• To enlighten the common people, mainly villagers, about the great wisdom contained in the narrations of Sreemad Bhaagavatam, a Sreemad Bhaagavata Tattva Sameeksha Satram is being conducted in Paralikad village every year.
  
  

Anna-Vastra Daana Satra at Narayanashrama Tapovanam