Fifteen members of the AYUDH chapter with Amma Centre Mauritius conducted a soup kitchen for people living in a disenfranchised area. AYUDH is Embracing the World’s global youth movement made up of members from the ages of 15 to 30.
We distributed meals of rice, lentils, and vegetables to the 50 children and adults who had arrived for lunch. Most of the neighbourhood is single mothers and their children, so we especially made sure the children ate to their fill. There was also enough food for every family to take a package home.
![Children eating meal provided by AYUDH](https://ammadev.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ayudh-mauritius-soup-kitchen_01_1200x800-1024x683.jpg)
![Swami Yōgāmṛtānanda Puri and AYUDH members serving food.](https://ammadev.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ayudh-mauritius-soup-kitchen_03_1200x800-1024x683.jpg)
![AYUDH members serving food to children.](https://ammadev.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ayudh-mauritius-soup-kitchen_04_1200x800-1024x683.jpg)
![Swami Yōgāmṛtānanda Puri with many of the kids and their mothers smiling and standing in front of the food service line.](https://ammadev.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ayudh-mauritius-soup-kitchen_06_1200x800-1024x683.jpg)
![AYUDH memebers praying before the meal service.](https://ammadev.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ayudh-mauritius-soup-kitchen_07_1200x800-1024x683.jpg)
![The AYUDH members standing together smiling and showing the sign for peace with their hands for a picture to commemorate the event.](https://ammadev.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/ayudh-mauritius-soup-kitchen_08_1200x800-1024x683.jpg)
“The AYUDH team really experienced how Amma teaches us about society’s need for love, compassion, and service. They understood first-hand how that can be expressed in a practical form by reaching out to others and how that uplifts us, too,” said Swami Yōgāmṛtānanda Puri.
Amma Centre Mauritius is located in Quatres Bornes, a township in the island country that is off the southeast coast of Africa.