Tag: USA

On September 8, 2020, a small grass fire that started in Ashland, Oregon turned into the deadly Alameda Fire, which burned for about ten miles along the Bear Creek Greenway. Thousands of structures and businesses were destroyed and tragically, three people died in the disaster.  The…

Between April and July 2020, volunteers from the Sri Sathya Sai Centers of Arcadia and Glendale, California distributed groceries to the front-line medical workers at the Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. The volunteers delivered 150 bags of groceries, each weighing 50 pounds….

The Sri Sathya Sai Center of Dallas, Texas, started a gardening project in 2013 with the adoption of two raised bed plots in a local church’s community garden. Since then, the Center has donated more than 1,250 pounds of fresh produce to local area food…

Volunteers from the Sri Sathya Sai Center of Baltimore served people impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic by harvesting vegetables at the First Fruits Farm in Freeland, Maryland. The First Fruits Farm, a non-profit Christian ministry, provides fresh, nutritious produce to those experiencing hunger in the…

Since 2018, volunteers from Sri Sathya Sai Center of Salt Lake City, Utah have been participating in an annual school supplies drive called, “Stuff the Bus” in collaboration with the United Way of Salt Lake City. As part of this program, volunteers purchased school supplies…

The Sri Sathya Sai Center of North San Diego has regularly organized “Coming Clean” service projects, where hygiene kits are provided to the homeless and those living in shelters, with help of local organizations. Each family from the Center packaged an individual kit – a…

The city of Seattle in Washington State has one of the largest homeless populations in USA.   For the past few years, SSSIO volunteers have been providing food to the homeless in downtown Seattle at a local shelter. Since April 2020, volunteers from the Sri Sathya…