Last year in 2008 Amma requested AYUDH youth to contemplate this question, "Our whole life we have been taking and receiving from the world, now we must ask ourselves: what can we give back?" Since then AYUDH members have been trying to answer the question.
For Valentines Day 2009, AYUDH members banded together to make and sell traditional Valentines Day cards with a special twist. Using recycled cards as a base, members cut, pasted, glued and painted hand-made Valentines with Amma's message "May the tree of our life be firmly rooted in the soil of Love... and may Peace be its fruit" printed inside.
Instead of the usual sugar candy heart, or box of chocolates, AYUDH members included with the cards something much more Alive. For a donation of $20, devotees could sponsor a tree to be planted in someone's name as part of Amma's Orchard Expansion project at the MA Center.
Devotees received their card and homemade cookie on Valentines Day which was also the MA Center's 20th Anniversary, all in all AYUDH managed to have over 100
trees sponsored for the orchard expansion project!!
On the 14th, AYUDH members also trekked the muddy hills of the MA Center and helped to planted almost 200 apple trees, many of which had been sponsored by the Valentines project.
May Amma's words come true, that Love becomes the basis of our lives.
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