Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Ladies: Difference between revisions

'''Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Ladies''' or '''AMURTEL''' is an international volunteer organisation that works to help improve the quality of life for people experiencing chronic poverty or acute stress from environmental, financial, or political distress.  [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]] founded the organisation in 1978 with the aim to respond and work specifically to the problems faced by women and children in their struggle worldwide.<ref name="AAL">{{Cite web|title=About AMURTEL|url=http://www.amurtel.org/about-us/|publisher=AMURTEL}}</ref><ref name="CushRobinson2008">{{cite book|author1=Denise Cush|author2=Catherine A. Robinson|author3=Michael York|title=Encyclopedia of Hinduism|url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=i_T0HeWE-EAC&pg=PA33year=2008|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7007-1267-0|pages=33–}}</ref><ref name="MeltonBaumann2010">{{cite book|author1=J. Gordon Melton|author2=Martin Baumann|title=Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices &#91;6 volumes&#93;: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=v2yiyLLOj88C&pg=PA104|date=21 September 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-204-3|pages=104–}}</ref> The AMURTEL centres are managed by the Avadhutikas of [[Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha]].<ref name="Low2011">{{cite book|author=Marsha Goluboff Low|title=The Orange Robe: My Eighteen Years as a Yogic Nun|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GKvXzG2HWZsC&pg=PA164|date=14 June 2011|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4502-3012-4|pages=164–}}</ref>