Amrita SREE self-help groups (SHGs) met in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district for their annual meeting.
Swami Ajamritananda Puri delivered the blessing speech, and Brahmachari Nilakanthamrita Chaitanya welcomed all who attended. In addition to food, clothing, and financial assistance for each member, working capital was distributed to SHGs with 20 members.
The eminent chief guests included M.R. Gandhi, MLA for Nagercoil (BJP); S. Rajesh Kumar, MLA for Killiyoor (Congress); and Thalavai Sundaram, MLA for Kanyakumari (Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam).
![Three rows of women up close are seen in different colored saris of purple, pink, red and orange, smiling and clapping after having received their kits.](https://ammanew.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-kanyakumari-amrita-sree-annual-02_1200x675-1024x576.jpg)
![Swami Ajamritananda hands a kit to a woman in a white sari with a pink floral pattern on white.](https://ammanew.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-kanyakumari-amrita-sree-annual-03_1200x675-1024x576.jpg)
![Older women line up to happily receive a new sari from a monastic.](https://ammanew.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-kanyakumari-amrita-sree-annual-04_1200x675-1024x576.jpg)
![An outdoor meeting, with rows and rows of chairs filled with Amrita SREE self-help group women.](https://ammanew.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-kanyakumari-amrita-sree-annual-05_1200x675-1024x576.jpg)
![An older man dressed in white hands kit items to a woman dressed in a light blue sari with a Swamini standing next to her.](https://ammanew.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-kanyakumari-amrita-sree-annual-06_1200x675-1024x576.jpg)