Articles about community service
For several years, volunteers from the Sri Sathya Sai Center in Valencia have assisted a large gypsy family that lived in a shack next to the train tracks in the Fuente de San Luis neighborhood. The volunteers distributed clothes, food, blankets, and other needed items…
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As the world combats the Coronavirus outbreak and pandemic, hospitals have faced an acute shortage of facemasks to protect front-line medical workers. The Ladies Wing of the Toronto East Sai Center used their sewing skills to make masks to serve the medical workers. With love…
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SSIO volunteers from seven cities in Ukraine visited a hospice for the elderly in a village in the Sumy region to deliver packages containing bedding, towels, clothes, diapers, household cleaners, and fruits. In addition, the SSIO of Germany contributed 12 mattresses, waterproof mattress covers, 12…
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During winter, Montreal experiences frigid temperatures which can be dangerous. However, it did not stop SSIO members from serving the needy in honour of the 94th Birthday of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Twelve Sathya Sai Young Adults assembled 28 care packages containing winter hats, gloves,…
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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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During the COVID-19 pandemic, SSIO volunteers from the Ladies Wing from Sathya Sai Center of Cooksville, Mississauga constructed and delivered 222 facial masks to the Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto within a short span of two weeks, from 31 March to 16 April 2020. Given…
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Medellín is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains in South America. On 24 August 2019, 14 SSIO volunteers joined more than 50 members of the…
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On 25th December 2019, 10 SSIO volunteers in the city of Sucre distributed hundreds of kilograms of rice, noodles, sugar, oil, and matches to families in need. They also spread holiday cheers with 90 elderly people in a nursing home, giving them hot chocolate and…
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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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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 20 SSIO volunteers from the Sathya Sai Center of Cooksville initiated a Pick-Up Food Drive from 30 March to 19 April 2020 to serve the vulnerable population in Mississauga, especially the elderly and the indigent. Nearly…
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