Since November 2013, the Sathya Sai International Organisation (SSIO) has been actively involved in disaster relief efforts in Tacloban, Philippines – a region significantly affected by typhoon Yolanda. The SSIO has focused its disaster relief efforts in three major areas:
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During the weekend of 7th to 8th March 2015, severe flooding affected the southern parts of the island of Mauritius, and Sathya Sai volunteers from Savanne swiftly began rendering assistance to disaster victims. It was communicated on 9th March that 30 families needed immediate help….
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Members of a Sathya Sai Centre in one of the most dilapidated areas of Mexico City conduct several service projects to help the needy. In 2002, they built a Sathya Sai Medical Clinic for medical consultations and distributing medicines. In February 2013, the volunteers started…
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A medical, educational, and service camp was organised during summer 2014, in north-west Russia. More than 155 Sathya Sai volunteers from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, Great Britain, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine provided medical services to 2,560 people in eight villages.
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Since 2005, Sathya Sai devotees have lovingly served the residents of Florencio Varela, an extremely poor neighbourhood in Buenos Aires. With the help of 10 volunteers they provide food to 50 children, thrice weekly, along with free health care.
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Several Sathya Sai Centres in Florida teamed up with a local health department to sponsor a podiatry (foot care) camp at St. Petersburg, Florida, for the benefit of the unemployed, homeless, or those without medical insurance. On the morning of 1st November 2014, 8 podiatrists,
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The Noccan Kani House, which belongs to the SSIO of Argentina, is located in a poverty-stricken area approximately 20 kilometres from the city of Santa Fe, near a settlement of about 2,000 aboriginal people. Sathya Sai volunteers have rendered loving services at the Noccan Kani…
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Sathya Sai volunteers in the San Diego area organised a second Community Free Health Screening Day on 7th June 2014 in Vista, California. Services were rendered by volunteers from Kaplan College and eight primary care physicians, two gynaecologists, four paediatricians,
ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇDuring 4th–11th October 2014, SSIO medical teams performed 23 uterine fibroid surgeries and more than 10 hysterectomies at the New Amsterdam Hospital in Berbice, Guyana. Many of the patients had been waiting several years for medical attention, and their fibroids were large, with multiple adhesions….
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On 6th September 2014, the Sathya Sai Centre of Raleigh, North Carolina, in collaboration with the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, hosted a third Free Healthcare Day. Medical, dental, and vision services were provided by more than 100 volunteers,
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