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During the coronavirus pandemic, many community service centers were unable to help the homeless due to government restrictions. One such center is Sanctuary Toronto, Canada, which provides temporary housing, food, clothing, and basic health services to the homeless. Five Young Adults, along with 41 volunteers…
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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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The success of making 1,445 masks during April 2020 prompted the Ladies Wing of the Sathya Sai Centre of Cooksville to donate more masks in May 2020. The Young Adults created a form to collect information about fabric requirements for masks and potential suppliers. The…
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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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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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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 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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