Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service

Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service
	NGO
Purpose	Health
Headquarters	Varanasi, India
Coordinates	25°18′24″N 82°59′52″E / 25.306731°N 82.997789°E
Region served	Uttar Pradesh
Parent organisation	Ramakrishna Mission
Website	rkmhos.org

Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service is an Indian non-governmental organisation (

Banaras), established in 1900, and a branch of Ramakrishna Mission since 1902. It manages an education program on essential health issues in schools, slums and villages of Uttar Pradesh (India) thanks to auto-produced multimedia educational movies. It also gives health care and supplies free medicines to penniless people at its charitable hospital and two hospices.^[1]^[2]

History

Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service was created in 1900 by a group of young men at

Swami Shivananda, who established the Adviata Ashrama in Benares, adjacent to the Home of Service was also a great source of inspiration.^[6] In 1903 the President of the Ramakrishna Order, Swami Brahmananda visited the ashrama and wanted to construct a permanent building.^[6]

Eventually, the present land in the Luxa area of Varanasi was purchased in 1908. Upendra Narayan Deb and Tarini Charan Pal paid for the land.

Swami Akhandananda

. As the years went by, the Ramakrishna Mission Home of Service grew in all proportions. New service wings were added. Today this multi-dimensional institution of service (a 230 bedded General Hospital) sprawls into an area of 13 acres (53,000 m²) and specially caters to the needs of the rural poor and underprivileged patients.