Today is the United Nation’s International Day of Education. To celebrate, we offer this brief look at Amma’s massive reach to the world’s lowest and most vulnerable. She says it is by strengthening the people at the base of the pyramid that the entire edifice of society becomes healthy and strong.
In fact, Amma’s care for education began when she was just a girl. As a brilliant child, she tutored the other students in the poor fishing village where she was born. But her formal education stopped when she was just 9 years old. She had to look after her family with her mother ill.
Regardless, more than 60 years later, her humanitarian work in education has reached hundreds of thousands of people across India and around the world – from basic schooling for children orphaned after disasters to adult literacy for women living in impoverished villages.
Amma is also Chancellor of a globally renowned university recognised for its focus on compassion-driven research. It is joined with more than 150 international universities, including some of the world’s most prestigious institutions
How did her light become so bright?
