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GreenFriends is an international, volunteer-based movement that promotes environmental awareness and participation at the individual and community levels.
Our goal is to promote environmental awareness by inspiring people to serve and protect Nature.
GreenFriends started in India in 2001 as a project of Embracing the World and has since spread far and wide, with thousands of members across the globe today.
The mission of GreenFriends is to create a loving bond between humanity and Nature and to promote conservation through constructive action. Any service-oriented activity to protect and promote awareness and conservation of Nature can be considered a GreenFriends activity.
GreenFriends Ireland is 100% volunteer-run and community-focused – values that sit at the very heart of our organisation. No-one is paid in any way for their involvement. We really value freely sharing our skills, knowledge, time and energy as an expression of gratitude and love for all Nature gives us.
GreenFriends Ireland is the eco-wing of Amma Ireland
Registered Charity CHY15299 / RCN:20052447
https://ammaireland.org/
Both GreenFriends and Embracing the World are envisioned and inspired by world-reknowned humanitarian and spiritual teacher Mata Amritanandamayi (often affectionately known as Amma) https://www.embracingtheworld.org/about-amma/
“The entire world revolves around the central point of Compassion. It is sustained by this alone. This is seen in Nature, where all creatures coexist and help each other survive in subtle and gross ways.”
"We are a part of nature. We have come from nature. The human body is comprised of the five natural elements. Forever forbearing and forgiving us, the earth remains as our constant support. The sun gives us light. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, which is poisonous to us, and release oxygen. Rivers and lakes give us fresh water to quench our thirst. Air provides us with our life-breath... Therefore our focus today should neither be on dependence nor non-dependence, but on interdependence. This is because humans, animals, plants, the earth, the sky, the atmosphere, the sun, the moon and all the planets are all interdependent."
- Amma
Best known for her practice of tenderly embracing all those who come to her, Amma has served as confidante and counselor to many of the 40 million people she has embraced throughout her life. Each of Embracing the World’s projects has been initiated in response to the needs of the world’s poor who have come to unburden their hearts to Amma and cry on her shoulder. Click here to learn more about Amma.
Amma teaches that everyone - rich or poor - has the power to make a difference in the life of another, and that no selfless gesture is insignificant. Rather, it is the selfless actions we perform for one another that hold the keys to true peace - peace in the individual, peace in the community and peace among diverse cultures, nations and faiths.
Through her extraordinary acts of love, inner strength and self-sacrifice, Amma has inspired charity projects in more than 40 countries. This worldwide humanitarian movement is expanding day by day, as more and more people feel inspired by Amma’s example to share their time, energy and resources with those in need – both across the globe and in their own communities.