Soup Kitchen — Bridgewater New Jersey

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.

Haiti Relief Efforts

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.

Medical Screening Camps - Tampa Bay Florida USA

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.

Feeding the Homeless\nin Zone 8

We talk about homeless feeding throughout the Russian speaking countries. The 12-minute video says it all.

Preservation of Mother Nature

The Sai Cooksville Centre in Mississauga, Ontario educates their children to help Mother Nature by engaging in energy-saving and environmental projects.

REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SUPPORT – MINNEAPOLIS MN USA

Volunteers rely on Sai Baba’s teachings while working through challenges in helping Bhutani refugee families get resettled.

Sathya Sai Rural Awakening Service

This ongoing project serves almost 4,000 people in small villages in India, with education and health programs and more.

East Africa Famine Relief

The Sathya Sai Organization in Kenya helps stave off famine in Northern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia.

SERVICE EXPERIENCES IN HAITI - DES MOINES IA USA

“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.

NEWSPAPERS FOR THE ELDERLY – JACKSON MS

The simple service of providing a weekly copy of a regional newspaper enriches and brings enjoyment to elder citizens of Jackson MS.

Lending a helping hand

Sathya Sai Center of Casablanca: Lending a helping hand to disadvantaged children turns out to help those lending a hand.

Service to Nature

The Luebeck Sai Group is inspired to work on several projects to help nature.

Winnipeg – Feeding the Needy

The Winnipeg Sai Center has been preparing and distributing meals and collecting and distributing food items since Fall 1982.

Sai Art Gallery

We followed Sai Baba's suggestion to implement Sai selfless service through art and culture and opened a gallery for spiritual art. English and Deutsch

Sai Art Galerie

We followed Sai Baba's suggestion to implement Sai selfless service through art and culture and opened a gallery for spiritual art. Deutsch and English

Humanitarian work in Haiti

Carlos supervises the preparation of 3,000 meals a day for poor children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. English Español

Humanitarian work in Haiti

Carlos supervises the preparation of 3,000 meals a day for poor children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Espagnol English

HOMELESS SHELTER SERVICE – DES MOINES-AMES IA USA

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.

SERVICE TO MIGRANT FARM WORKER COMMUNITIES

Sai devotees distribute bags of groceries and toiletries to 500 indigent needy families living in agricultural communities in Southern California.

Education that transforms

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. English Español

Education that transforms

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. English Español

2012 FREE MEDICAL CAMP - ROCHESTER NY

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.

Mobile Medicare In Maharashtra And Goa

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.

Selfless Service for Infectious Diseases

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.

Removing Illiteracy Near Shimla

The Sai Organisation helps parents of children in slums understand the importance of education and provides steady help to parents and children alike.

Pure Drinking Water Defluorination Plants

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.

Building Future Indian Citizens - Orphan Boys

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.

Uplift of Primitive Adivasi of Kerala

This long-term project aims to uplift the primitive people in remote villages of Kerala – the Adivasi community.

Sharing love with Street Children

Sai devotees care for children who are left at the Dum Dum Metro Station by their mothers all day long.

Showing Light to the Lightless - the Blind

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.

Mid-Day Meals in Darjeeling Schools

Poor school children at government schools in Darjeeling are have been given a nutritious md-day meal during school days for almost 10 years.

Needs-Based Help to Villagers in Sikkim

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.

Better Life to Villagers in Dibrugarh - Assam

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 Needy Students in Haryana Chandigarh

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.

A Touch with Heart - Continuing Care

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.

Rural Service Centres in Karnataka State

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.

Sai Net - Medicated Mosquito Nets In Surat

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.

Continued Medical Help in Jammu and Kashmir

In Jammu & Kashmir State of India, the Sathya Sai Seva Organisation has been extending medical and veterinary services.

Vocational Training Empowering Women

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.

National Sai Seva Week, the Netherlands

The Netherlands held a National Seva Week, in which many service activities took place. They are outlined here. English Nederlands

Help to Leprosy Patients in Imphal

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.

Journey from Darkness to Vision in Navsari

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.

LOVE STORY IN A NURSING HOME – Ithaca, NY

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.

An Open Canteen in Santiago, Chile

Once a week, a canteen is open to feed the “indigentes” in Santiago, Chile. English Español

Un Comedor Abierto en Santiago de Chile

Once a week, a canteen is open to feed the “indigentes” in Santiago, Chile. English Español

Combating Indoor Air Pollution-Rural Bihar

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.

Landelijke Sai Seva week in Nederland

The Netherlands held a National Seva Week, in which many service activities took place. They are outlined here. English Nederlands

Thresholds Program in a Transition Shelter

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.

Wilson Manor Assisted Living - Baltimore MD

Volunteers from Baltimore, Maryland, spend time with the residents of the Wilson Manor Assisted Living program in Glen Burnie MD.

SOJOURNERS PLACE LUNCHES AND DINNERS

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.

Caring Beyond Curing- In Andhra Pradesh

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.

Creating The Land of Love In Rourkela

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.

Agri Initiatives Helped Farmers in Thiruvallur

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.

Breakfast Service at Gateway 180

Homeless women and children are served a freshly cooked hot breakfast

INSPIRING CHILDREN TO LEARN ROBOTICS

Park Serve Day in Boston

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.

BUILDING HOMES WITH LOVE

Devotees find joy and satisfaction in learning home construction skills as they volunteer their time at a Habitat for Humanity project.

A 25-YEAR OLD FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE 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.

FOOD PACKAGING AT REGIONAL FOOD BANK

Sai devotees volunteer their time sorting and packaging food supplies at the Regional Food Bank for re-distribution to various charitable agencies.