Articles about community service
The Ranchito is a community of people living in extreme poverty in Monterrey, Mexico. In desperation, homeless people had built makeshift homes there of cardboard and wood, or cement in a few cases. The settlement was subsequently destroyed by a fire in 2014, rendering 23…
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The Sathya Sai Center of Cuauhtémoc in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, supports an active Sathya Sai Education in Human Values (SSEHV) programme for children, and twice a year, children enrolled in the SSEHV programme serve the needy of the community with love and compassion. On 21st November…
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As part of a Community Adoption Programme (CAP), for the last 15 years Sathya Sai volunteers have provided educational assistance to refugee children in the Glen Innes area of Auckland. The present programme is an extension of a previously-initiated project to offer free tuition classes…
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Four times a year, the SSIO serves needy residents in the southern outskirts of Lima. Volunteers provide services in general medicine, obstetrics, dentistry, and psychology, and distribute medicines, free of cost. On 19th July 2015, the SSIO sponsored a medical camp in Ticlio Chico, Lima.
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In November and December 2015, the SSIO of Croatia undertook two service activities for the needy in the village of Letovanic near the river Kupa, continuing work started in 2014 in cooperation with local fire-fighters, after the village was impacted by a great flood.
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On 12th November 2015, two members of the Sathya Sai Centre of Bjelovar led an evening programme titled “Wakie Wakie Stories,” on education in human values, in Petar Preradovic at the National Library in Bjelovar. The volunteers arranged for the reading of folk tales and…
ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇSSIO volunteers organised an evening extravaganza of music, drama, and dance at Bowman Hall in Blacktown, Sydney, on 1st November 2015. In response to a cordial invitation extended to all ethnic communities, the hall was packed with Croatians, Serbians, Italians, Lebanese, Iranians, Indians, Sri Lankans,…
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In El Salvador, SSIO members organised various projects in Sathya Sai Education in Human Values, under the Serve the Planet initiative. In particular, they focused on connecting children with nature, a vital opportunity for children growing up in urban surroundings. The group sponsored outdoor activities
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Satya Sai youth from Suriname organised a Walk For Values on 31st October 2015, as part of the worldwide Serve the Planet project. Sai Organisation members together with family, friends and community members joyfully joined in the event. One hundred forty people, ages 4–75, participated…
ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇOn 20th October 2015, 15 volunteers from Sathya Sai Centres in the Lombardy region offered services to refugees at a homeless shelter near Milan. Food and clothing for children and infants were distributed to 120 families seeking asylum from war-torn areas of Asia, the Middle…
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