Ananda Marga is known for integrating spiritual practice with concrete service, and this is reflected in a broad spectrum of educational, social, and welfare initiatives. In the educational sphere, it runs primary and secondary schools, colleges, and vocational training centers that emphasize holistic, value-based learning. There are also adult literacy programs, teacher training institutes, and non-formal education efforts such as literacy and life-skills classes, especially for marginalized communities. Many of these institutions seek to combine academic instruction with moral education, yoga, meditation, and related spiritual values, thus shaping education as a vehicle for inner and outer transformation.

In the field of health and welfare, Ananda Marga supports hospitals, clinics, and mobile medical units, as well as organizing free medical and health camps. These may include general checkups, immunization programs, and other basic healthcare services. Alongside this, there are children’s homes and orphanages that provide shelter, care, and education for vulnerable children. Some centers also maintain elder care facilities and programs focused on women’s welfare, including education, skill development, and support for economic self-reliance. In this way, physical well-being, emotional security, and social dignity are treated as mutually reinforcing aspects of service.

A significant dimension of its work lies in disaster relief and ongoing community support. Through its relief wings, Ananda Marga responds to natural calamities with emergency food distribution, temporary shelter, and basic medical aid, followed by rehabilitation efforts for affected communities. Regular food distribution and community kitchens extend this spirit of service beyond emergencies, offering meals to the poor and those in distress. These activities embody the ideal that spiritual life must express itself in tangible compassion for those facing hunger, displacement, or crisis.

Rural development and environmental stewardship form another important strand of its projects. Initiatives in rural areas include agricultural development, cooperative farming, sanitation and clean water projects, and sometimes micro-credit or other means of local economic support. Environmental efforts such as tree planting, organic or ecological farming promotion, water conservation, and awareness campaigns reflect a concern for the broader web of life. Taken together, these educational, health, relief, rural, and environmental activities illustrate a consistent attempt to harmonize inner spiritual discipline with outward social responsibility, seeing service to living beings as an expression of devotion to the Divine.