A.M.U.R.T. (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is a voluntary association founded in India in 1970 which works in over 80 countries throughout the world. AMURT Italy is a voluntary NGO with legal status, composed exclusively of unpaid volunteers.



AMURT Italy started to work in 1985 sending food, clothes and medicine to India and Africa. With the start of the Yugoslavian crisis AMURT exerted itself to the full sending 50 lorries full of hospital supplies and food to the refugee camps. The work continued with the Somalian and Ruandan crises where it contributed to the rebuilding of the local school system. In Romania AMURT contributed to the opening of two children’s homes for orphans.Also in Italy it has carried out relief operations in earthquakes and floods such as in Irpinia and Piedmont.