She also founded the Maharogi Sewa Samiti (MSS), Warora, and served as its chief executive officer and board member, which provided a range of health care, rehabilitation, education, agriculture, and economic empowerment programmes. Life Īmte was the daughter of Vikas Amte and Bharati Amte, and the granddaughter of Baba Amte, who founded a rehabilitation center for individuals affected by leprosy at Anandwan, in the state of Maharashtra, where she lived on campus. She was chief executive officer and board member of a non-profit organisation, Maharogi Sewa Samiti, which focuses on helping people disadvantaged by leprosy.
Sheetal Amte (26 January 1981 – 30 November 2020), also known by the name Sheetal Amte-Karajgi after her marriage, was an Indian public health expert, disability specialist and social entrepreneur. Sheetal Amte-Karajgi, who describes her grandfather as a “very upright man with a stick in his hand, like a sword against injustice”, believes Anandwan to be a model of Baba Amte’s idea of a ‘new India’, where people would be the centre, not power and wealth.Doctor, public health expert, disability specialist, social worker Which is why Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora - which he called Anandwan - an institution to help those with leprosy and also to dispel its social stigma, was established in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. The only way to overcome his fear was to start working for the welfare of those afflicted with leprosy. A man who had cleaned gutters as a challenge by sweepers was quivering at the site of Tulshiram.īaba Amte was a man who believed “ where there is fear, there is no love, and where there is no love, there is no God”. Literally a living corpse.” For the first time in his life, Baba Amte - who Mahatama Gandhi called ‘Abhay Sadhak’, fearless seeker of the truth - felt fear. A rotting mass of human flesh with two holes in place of a nose, without traces of fingers or toes, with worms and sores where there should have been eyes. One day, he encountered a sight that would change the course of his life, and many others.
He even volunteered as a waste carrier to experience their plight first-hand. With idols such as Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Sane Guruji, the dissatisfaction that Baba Amte dealt with resulted in him being involved with the freedom struggle.
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