On 1st April 2018, 16 SSIO volunteers from the towns of Mestre, Udine, Verona and Bolzano, along with volunteers from the Amici di (Friends of) Paolo Favale Association, worked tirelessly to cook and serve a traditional Easter lunch to more than 50 needy people in…
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Petaling Jaya is a major Malaysian city originally developed as a satellite township for Kuala Lumpur, in the Petaling District of Selangor. About 1,500 people attended a convention held by the SSIO of Malaysia on 26th May 2018 in Petaling Jaya. The event opened with…
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Members of the SSIO in Thailand organised village service as part of a village adoption programme. Volunteers packed and distributed care packages of rice, oil, sugar, noodles, milk, cookies and diapers to 18 families and needy people in the village. SSIO members visited four former employees of the…
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On 17th April 2018, as part of Aradhana Mahotsavam Day (April 24th) observances, honouring the sacred memory of Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the Service Wing and Ladies Wing of the SSIO of Canada, Region 1, organised a region-wide blood donation drive in Mississauga, Ontario. Despite…
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Twice a year, SSIO volunteers from Russia and nearby countries join to serve the needy as part of a massive coordinated project. In March 2018, 195 volunteers from Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Russia served food collectively to more than
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The SSIO has a long history of involvement in post-disaster relief efforts around the world, which has led in the past few years to a concerted effort to establish disaster relief work as a key component of service activities both at
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On 12th May 2018, the SSIO of Hong Kong organised a Go-Green Fun Fair, titled “Let’s Green It Up,” at Kowloon Park, an open-air public space in the heart of the city. About 150 under-privileged children and parents, including members of ethnic minority communities, took…
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For more than two decades, SSIO volunteers have served fresh hot meals to the needy in Tokyo. This service offering began in 1994 when the Sathya Sai Centre of Tokyo started serving 30 meals, twice a week, in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Over the…
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Between 8th and 12th April 2018, SSIO leaders organised meetings to discuss human values with more than 100 people, including students of the Sathya Sai Institute of Human Values. At the Sathya Sai Primary School in Funza, a small town near Bogotá, human values-based stories…
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A recent court decision in San Salvador resulted in 75 families being evacuated from a farm where most of them have lived all their lives. With the onset of the rainy season, the displaced residents were in jeopardy, and on 19th June 2018, the SSIO…
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