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Baba Amte sits with children while holding a baby

Baba Amte holding a baby and sitting with two children.

Being a new charity, MSS, grew to 11 clinics helping around 4,000 patients. In 1951 Baba applied to the state government for land to set up a community. They replied by giving the Amte's 50 acres of rock strewn land that was overgrown and plagued by tigers, panthers, bears, and other wild animals. The nearest water supply, a well, was 2 kilometres away and this new land was 3 kilomteres from Warora.

"Perhaps it was symptomatic that there was nothing but a tangle of boulders, roots and creepers. Outcast land for outcast people. This was our lot from now on."

- Baba Amte

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