In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SSIO of USA Region 9 (Southwest USA) launched the MASK (Motivational Acts of Selfless Kindness) project in early April 2020. More than 30 volunteers from Sathya Sai Centers in Arizona and the local community made and distributed about 2,000…
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In 2019, the Sathya Sai Centre of Central San Jose in California began offering math tutoring and computer programming classes to students at the Voices College-bound Language Academy, which is a primary school in a low-income area in Silicon Valley. The program serves elementary school children…
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Since 2005, the Sathya Sai Center of Chatsworth in California has partnered with nonprofit agencies to deliver burritos and food bags to the homeless every month. Many of the recipients live in dilapidated motels and in cars in parking lots assigned to the homeless. After…
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When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in early 2020, SSIO volunteers in Seattle, Washington sprang into action to make homemade masks to help healthcare workers on the frontlines. In just three weeks, over 400 masks were distributed to various healthcare facilities, and around 100 masks…
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Sai Spiritual Education (SSE): With the national pivot to online SSE programs, SSIO of USA, Region 8 also switched to online SSE classes and participated in national SSE initiatives. SSE students in San Diego, California made cards for Thermo Fisher Scientific employees in Carlsbad, California,…
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During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, three Sai Spiritual Education (SSE) students from the South East Denver Sathya Sai Center, Colorado built an online website titled Kids 4 Our Community. Motivated by a desire to uplift the spirits of the most vulnerable and the elderly in…
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In early 2020, when the first COVID-19 case surfaced in Seattle, Washington area, the Sathya Sai Center of Seattle Eastside set up online Center meetings which included an hour of study circle followed by an hour of devotional singing. Sai Spiritual Education (SSE) teachers hosted…
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Inspired by Sathya Sai Baba’s message, “Hands that serve are holier than the lips that pray”, members of the Sathya Sai Center of San Bruno, California who were trained in Sathya Sai Education in Human Values (SSEHV) initiated value-based mentoring programs for low-income students. As…
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Women volunteers from the Sathya Sai Center of South Bethesda, Maryland started a unique project in March 2019 called Knots of Love. Nearly 30 volunteers learnt how to knit and supplied 500 knitted baby hats of various styles and vibrant colours to the Queens Hospital…
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In December 2019, Sai Spiritual Education (SSE) children from the Sathya Sai Center, Greensboro, North Carolina initiated a Hygiene Kit Project. The children assembled kits containing essential items such as toothpaste, toothbrush, floss, mouthwash, shampoo, earbuds, and bars of soap packed in a gallon sized…
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