Sai Baba teaches, "Service to man is service to God." Members of the Sai Baba Center of Bridgewater NJ believe they have the opportunity to be a bridge between such Sai ideals and the community by living those ideals. One project they undertook is to cook and serve food monthly at the Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen in nearby New Brunswick.
A member of the Sathya Sai Center of Bethesda MD USA volunteers in relief services after the severe earthquake of Jan 2010 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Members of the Sathya Sai Center of Tampa Bay experience Sai Baba’s teachings and divine love firsthand through conducting medical screening camps in St Petersburg and Clearwater FL.
We talk about homeless feeding throughout the Russian speaking countries. The 12-minute video says it all.
The Sai Cooksville Centre in Mississauga, Ontario educates their children to help Mother Nature by engaging in energy-saving and environmental projects.
Volunteers rely on Sai Baba’s teachings while working through challenges in helping Bhutani refugee families get resettled.
This ongoing project serves almost 4,000 people in small villages in India, with education and health programs and more.
The Sathya Sai Organization in Kenya helps stave off famine in Northern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.
“Call me for every small thing,” heard the doctor from Ft Dodge IA, in answer to a prayer while traveling to Haiti to volunteer her services after a massive earthquake. Constant reliance on the divine led to a week of many miracles.
The simple service of providing a weekly copy of a regional newspaper enriches and brings enjoyment to elder citizens of Jackson MS.
Sathya Sai Center of Casablanca: Lending a helping hand to disadvantaged children turns out to help those lending a hand.
The Luebeck Sai Group is inspired to work on several projects to help nature.
The Winnipeg Sai Center has been preparing and distributing meals and collecting and distributing food items since Fall 1982.
We followed Sai Baba's suggestion to implement Sai selfless service through art and culture and opened a gallery for spiritual art.
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We followed Sai Baba's suggestion to implement Sai selfless service through art and culture and opened a gallery for spiritual art.
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Carlos supervises the preparation of 3,000 meals a day for poor children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Carlos supervises the preparation of 3,000 meals a day for poor children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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The spirit of service germinates and develops in a member of a small Iowa Sathya Sai Baba Center, through preparing and serving meals for the needy once a month.
Sai devotees distribute bags of groceries and toiletries to 500 indigent needy families living in agricultural communities in Southern California.
A group of women have been providing a weekly free course on Education in Human Values since 2005 in Montevideo. Their work was awarded the Merit for Peace prize, the “Merito Oriental a la Paz”, by a nonprofit humanitarian association.
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A group of women have been providing a weekly free course on Education in Human Values since 2005 in Montevideo. Their work was awarded the Merit for Peace prize, the “Merito Oriental a La Paz”, by a non-profit humanitarian association.
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A doctor, inspired by Sathya Sai Baba’s teachings on a doctor’s role in society and that service should be directed to fulfill a local need, collaborates with area Sai Centers, Rochester General Hospital, the Salvation Army, and other agencies to host a free medical screening camp in 2012 for the medically underserved and uninsured.
Since 2008, Mobile Medicare has served almost 2 million people in the states of Maharashtra & Goa, with good health care at their doorsteps, through the use of well-equipped vans. Expansion of this service is planned.
Pure love in the form of selfless service can cure any disease. Medicines may cure the disease, but extending a helping hand with a touch of love can not only help cure the disease but transform the attitude of the patient. In this project, such love and selfless service helps cure patients in an Infectious Diseases Ward.
The Sai Organisation helps parents of children in slums understand the importance of education and provides steady help to parents and children alike.
This project extends the Sai drinking water projects by providing potable drinking water to additional villages in Andhra Pradesh. After the plants are set up, they are handed over to villagers to operate.
The Sai Organisation of Andhra Pradesh adopts orphans, providing free accommodation, food, and education. The plan is to extend the programme to all areas of the State of Andhra Pradesh.
This long-term project aims to uplift the primitive people in remote villages of Kerala – the Adivasi community.
Sai devotees care for children who are left at the Dum Dum Metro Station by their mothers all day long.
Members of the Sai Organisation in Tamil Nadu assist the blind, reading to them, teaching them Braille, and scribing for them during exams. In turn, some of the blind now help translate books from English to Tamil.
Poor school children at government schools in Darjeeling are have been given a nutritious md-day meal during school days for almost 10 years.
In a remote village of the Namchi district of Sikkim State, Sathya Sai volunteers have helped villagers with their requirements, including constructing a community center and providing other services.
Volunteers in the Dibrugarh district of Assam State have adopted a village located in an out-of-the-way position, "across the river", and provided the villagers with various kinds of services, such as medical care, agri-care, mosquito nets, and so on.
Helping economically disadvantaged students with good education and moral values goes a long way toward their acquiring good character qualities at a tender age. In Haryana and Chandigarh, Sri Sathya Sai Organisation volunteers have helped thousands of students with free coaching.
Post-operative care is very important, and people from Kerala who have received treatment and operations at the Sathya Sai Super Specialty Hospitals are monitored and taken care of systematically by the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation (SSSO), Kerala.
Karnataka State developed 61 rural service centers in 24 districts, for extending various kinds of help to villagers. It has resulted in a remarkable change in the attitudes of the village people.
In Surat district of Gujarat State, medicated mosquito nets were prepared and distributed to charity homes, lepers, and other poor people to help prevent malaria and other diseases.
In Jammu & Kashmir State of India, the Sathya Sai Seva Organisation has been extending medical and veterinary services.
In Chennai city, a Vocational Training Center (VTC) being run by Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Tamil Nadu, has trained hundreds of women in tailoring and other trades to earn money in a respectable way and lead a good life. Many women have set up their own businesses after receiving the training.
The Netherlands held a National Seva Week, in which many service activities took place. They are outlined here.
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In Imphal west district of Manipur State, Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation has been helping Leprosy Patients who were deserted by their nearby relatives, with monthly food material.
In Navsari district of Gujarat State, regular eye camps have been conducted since 1996, providing medical care to blind people. Identified patients are given cataract surgeries. The activity has taken place on a massive scale, covering many villages and benefiting thousands of poor persons.
Sometimes a debilitating illness brings out our capacity to love and brings forth spiritual gifts. What began as visits to a patient in a nursing home turned into a deep and enduring friendship and a healing lifeline for the visitor.
Once a week, a canteen is open to feed the “indigentes” in Santiago, Chile.
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Once a week, a canteen is open to feed the “indigentes” in Santiago, Chile.
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In Bihar and Jharkhand States of India, Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation has studied and made sincere attempts in combating Indoor Air Pollution and in rural areas many poor villagers are subjected to Indoor air pollution. By providing a smoke less Chulah (Hearth) this issue can be tackled.
The Netherlands held a National Seva Week, in which many service activities took place. They are outlined here.
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Volunteers in Shrewsbury MA implement the Thresholds program within the homeless shelter they have served for many years. Video scenes depict both the mentors and shelter clients sharing their heart-to-heart self-transformation and spiritual growth through their involvement in this service.
Volunteers from Baltimore, Maryland, spend time with the residents of the Wilson Manor Assisted Living program in Glen Burnie MD.
The Sathya Sai Center of Hockessin, Delaware, cooks and serves meals at Sojourner’s Place, a facility in Wilmington, Delaware, for individuals and families in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs.
The Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation Andhra Pradesh has extended medical help to many remote villages with 8 mobile vans equipped with testing items. Most important is to take care of the follow-up cases for further treatment and operations.
Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Rourkela district of Odisha State, has served a Lepers colony and created a true divine bond by winning their hearts. They were helped in many ways.
Villagers in India depend mostly on agriculture, and enabling them to have proper knowledge about the seeds and methods of cultivation would end up with good results. Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation Tamil Nadu has taken some initiatives to help the farmers in Thiruvallur district to get the proper seed in Paddy and water melon etc.
Homeless women and children are served a freshly cooked hot breakfast
Members of the Sai centers in the greater Boston region jointly participate in “Park Serve” Day at the Blue Hills Reservation, where they spent an enjoyable day cleaning, raking, mulching and preparing flower beds.
Devotees find joy and satisfaction in learning home construction skills as they volunteer their time at a Habitat for Humanity project.
Devotees have been getting together monthly for 25 years to make sandwiches to deliver to a nearby homeless shelter. In this article, they reflect on their experiences and the deeper profound meaning of service as a spiritual path.
Sai devotees volunteer their time sorting and packaging food supplies at the Regional Food Bank for re-distribution to various charitable agencies.