Anandwans Somnath Project Headquarters

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Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora (MSS), founded in 1949 by the internationally renowned social worker and human rights activist Murlidhar Devidas Amte (popularly known as Baba Amte), is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization empowering over 2.3 million people afflicted with leprosy and other disabilities such as hearing and speech impaired, visually and orthopedically challenged and socially backward tribal populace through sustained and effective psycho-socio-economic rehabilitation.
Over last six decades, MSS has grown rapidly to become an internationally renowned institution in the field of social work, housing the largest community of leprosy afflicted and people with disabilities in India and perhaps, in the world.
Somnath is a village spread across 1300 acres, located in the lust green forests of Tadoba. Situated 54 kilometers north-east of Chandrapur and about 100 km south of Anandwan. In 1960s, when Baba Amte founded Somnath, he envisioned it as a village where the cured leprosy patients would live together in a village, which they themselves would set up, using their own resources, blood, sweat and toil. Today it is a village of Gandhi’s dreams with its own bio-diversity, abundant water and a rich culture. The heavenly place is the known as the granary of Maharogi Sewa Samiti for the bountiful production of vegetables setting up records each year. Since 1967, Somnath has been serving as a manpower training center. It has inspired thousands of youth who came there to attend the intensive training programs . Somnath is also a preferred camping site for organisation like UNICEF.