Articles about community service
The SSIO of New South Wales celebrated Guru Poornima with service. The youth conducted many projects, including a nursing home visit, food drive, tree planting, and organising a Life Skills programme for refugees and needy people. In July and August of 2015, Sathya Sai followers…
ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇOver the past two years, Sathya Sai Youth in Western Australia have volunteered regularly at Native Arc, a volunteer-operated wildlife rescue sanctuary in the protected wetlands of Bibra Lake. The sanctuary rescues and rehabilitates injured Australian native animals in the region. Every three months, the…
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Tree planting is popular among Australians in July, not only because the National Tree Planting Day falls in this period, but also because of school holidays, cooler winter weather, and soil conditions. In 2015, SSIO members in the states of Western Australia, Victoria, New South…
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The river Bagmati, which flows past the Pashupati temple, is believed to be a sacred river, and many people bathe in it every day. Unfortunately, the river is very polluted and unhygienic. To address this issue,
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In commemoration of the holy month of Ramadan, SSIO volunteers at the Riyadh Sathya Sai Centre distributed 108 packets of rice, oil, sugar, vermicelli, fruit, juice, dates, and water on 3rd July 2015. On 31st July 2015, in observance of Guru Poornima, 30 SSIO members…
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As previously reported, in November 2013, the Philippines was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan, in which the area near Tacloban was destroyed. The SSIO began offering humanitarian relief to the victims within days, and disaster relief efforts have continued up to the present date, including…
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Female youth at a Sathya Sai Centre in Toronto have undertaken a project to serve the residents of a women’s shelter called Sistering. The shelter provides basic services to disadvantaged or homeless women in need of a safe environment during the day. This facility offers…
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A national medical and construction camp was organised from 2nd to 8th July 2015 at a boarding school for children in the Vinnitsa region, by 21 Sathya Sai volunteers from six Ukrainian cities. The project’s intent was to improve the living conditions of needy children.
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SSIO volunteers have been serving the children of the Sathya Sai Pre-School at Rongamai, Otara, and three other neighbouring schools in Auckland.
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During mid-June 2015, 24 Sathya Sai volunteers organised a project in the Sverdlovsk region to renovate rooms of the Museum of National Culture, located in a village school.
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