Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Visakhapatnam
Ramakrishna Beach, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 530 003, India
0891-3551477, 94933 81836.
[email protected]
www.rkmissionvizag.org
Started in 1938 and taken over by the Ramakrishna Mission in 1939, this ashrama is situated very close to Ramakrishna Beach, a tourist attraction in the city.
Activities:
- A dispensary for the treatment of cerebral-palsied children, with facilities like physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, special education, speech therapy, counselling of parents.
- A mobile medical unit through which medical camps are conducted.
- A library and a reading room with 19,200 books and 60 newspapers and periodicals.
- An English-medium secondary school, located a little away from the ashrama.
- A computer training centre.
- An exhibition on the lives of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.
- Values education programmes in schools and colleges.
- Religious activities: Daily worship, religious discourses in the ashrama and elsewhere, monthly retreats, and celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other spiritual luminaries.
- Welfare work by way of providing scholarships to poor students and medical help to the needy.
