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'''Anandwan''' literally, ''Forest of happiness'', located around 5 kilometers from [[Warora]] in [[Chandrapur district]] in the state of [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], is an [[ashram]] and a community rehabilitation centre which was mainly started for [[leprosy]] patients and the disabled from downtrodden sections of society.<ref name="Anandwan Reference1" /> It was founded in 1949<ref>[http://www.anandwan.in/about_us.html Anandwan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325222015/http://www.anandwan.in/about_us.html |date=25 March 2010 }}</ref> by noted social activist [[Baba Amte]]. The project is run by the organisation Maharogi Seva Samiti<ref name="Anandwan Reference1">{{cite news |last1=Rao |first1=Madhu |title=Sheetal Amte, granddaughter of Baba Amte, dies by suicide in Maharashtra's Chandrapur |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/sheetal-amte-baba-suicide-baba-amte-granddaughter-dies-maharashtra-chandrapur-668341 |access-date=5 March 2021 |publisher=www.indiatvnews.com |date=30 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>,and even being located one of the most backward districts of Central India -Chandrapur,has built livelihood capabilities of thousands of downtrodden people, persons with disabilities like leprosy, orthopedically handicapped, vision and hearing impaired and primitive tribal members since 1949.<ref>{{cite news |title=Not just Baba Amte's granddaughter: From Anandwan to WEF's Young Global Leader, journey of Dr Sheetal Amte |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/not-just-baba-amtes-granddaughter-from-anandwan-to-wefs-young-global-leader-journey-of-dr-sheetal-amte-2 |access-date=5 March 2021 |publisher=Free Press Journal |date=30 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Two of its other projects are [[Lok Biradari Prakalp]] and Somnath, a village for cured leprosy patients.

Baba Amte developed Anandwan to be a self-contained ashram (which could be described as "a [[kibbutz]] for the sick"). Today residents are self-sufficient in terms of basic subsistence.
In addition the ashram has various home-based, small-scale industry units run by the residents that generate income to cover additional requirements.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.schweitzershospitalfund.org.uk/anandwan.html |title=Dr. Schweitzer's Hospital Fund (UK) - Anandwan |access-date=10 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221063228/http://schweitzershospitalfund.org.uk/anandwan.html |archive-date=21 December 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Baba Amte also shaped Anandwan as an environmentally aware community to practice energy utilization, waste recycling and minimizing use of natural resources that might otherwise lead to their depletion.<ref>[http://chanda.nic.in/htmldocs/anandwan.htm The Miracle Worker Baba Amte - Collector's office, Chandrapur district] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126105610/http://chanda.nic.in/htmldocs/anandwan.htm |date=26 January 2008 }}</ref>

Anandwan today has two hospitals, a college, an orphanage, a school for the blind, a school for the deaf and a technical wing.
[[Dr. Vikas Amte]], Baba Amte's elder son, is the chief functionary at Anandwan. He undertook various experiments in Anandwan regarding rehabilitation which have been mentioned in a book titled 'Anandwan Prayogwan'.

== Books ==
A book titled 'Anandwan Prayogwan' has been written by [[Dr. Vikas Amte]] which describes different experiments undertaken at Anadwan.

== Additional Works ==

In later years the samiti managing Anandwan, also added two projects under the Lok Biradari Prakalp at Somnath in Mul tehsil of Chandrapur district in 1967 and at Hemalkasa,which is looked after by Prakash and Mandakini Amte, both doctors, and their sons Digant and Aniket and their wives Anagha and Sameeksha. in Bhamragad tehsil of Gadchiroli district in 1973.<ref name="Anandwan Reference1" />

== See also ==
*[[Baba Amte]]
*[[Dr. Vikas Amte|Vikas Amte]]
*[[Dr. Prakash Amte|Prakash Amte]]
*[[Dr. Mandakini Amte|Mandakini Amte]]
*[[Dr. Sheetal Amte|Sheetal Amte]]

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |author1=Levinson, David |author2=Christensen, Karen S. |title=Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World |publisher=Sage Publications |location=Thousand Oaks|url=https://books.google.com/?id=t1geOjQ6R0MC&pg=RA2-PA725&dq=Anandwan |year=2003 |pages=725 |isbn=0-7619-2598-8 }}
*{{cite book |author =D.K. Oza. |title=Voluntary Action and Gandhian Approach |publisher=National Book Trust |location=New Delhi|year=2002 |isbn=81-237-0142-X }}
*{{cite book |author =Hans Staffner, S.J. |title=Baba Amte: A Vision of New India |publisher= Popular Prakashan | url=https://books.google.com/?id=2p93lOn-p3YC&pg=PA10&dq=Anandwan |year=2000 |isbn=81-7154-674-9 }}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://anandwan.in/ Anandwan, Official website]
*[http://bharari.net/report-on-anandwan Report on Anandwan]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080213143027/http://mss.niya.org/projects/anandwan.php Maharogi Sewa Samiti: Anandwan]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071221063228/http://schweitzershospitalfund.org.uk/anandwan.html Dr. Schweitzer's Hospital Fund (UK) - Anandwan]
*[http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=313 Anandwan - Maharogi Sewa Samiti]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080126105610/http://chanda.nic.in/htmldocs/anandwan.htm The Miracle Worker Baba Amte - Collector's office, Chandrapur district]

[[Category:Ashrams]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in Bombay State]]
[[Category:Religious organizations established in 1951]]
[[Category:Chandrapur district]]
[[Category:Leper hospitals]]
[[Category:Health charities in India]]

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