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We are back again requesting your help to save another life, all your previous contributions helped save Bhanu Shashank, thank you. This is a case of a 10yr old boy, Tarun Yandrathi, who is suffering from a genetic disorder called ‘Beta Thalassaemia Major/Sickle Cell Anemia/Thal-Sickle’ from his young age and the only cure to save him is to undergo a ‘Allogenic Peripheral blood Stem cell transplant (PBSCT)’. His 5 yr old Sister ‘Pragna Yandrathi’ will be the donor for stem cell. The cost of PBSCT is coming up to around 12 lakh rupees (around $23,529) performed at ‘Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, Phone : +91 – 416-2282352 / 3072352’. The same treatment was quoted for 30 Lakhs by well-known hospitals in Hyderabad.
A little about their Family background: Parents – Venkatesan & Aruna Yandrathi used to be farmers and have nothing for themselves. They’ve sold their property and spent all the money for Tarun’s treatment for blood transfusion every 3 weeks to survive. Currently, they work at a milk booth in Hyderabad and earn around Rs.2,500 per month. They are depending on taking hand loans and support from a local small NGO for blood transfusion every 3 weeks. If this blood transfusion is not done, Tarun’s body develops iron overload, by which his major organs like heart, liver, spleen, kidney, pancreas, skin & Endocrine will affect and may stop functioning.
The surgery is scheduled for Aug 1st week. No significant amount has been collected yet and they don’t have any resource to either publish this in any newspaper or have any contact with large NGO’s that can do a campaign.
The Target is Rs, 12 lakhs. We can surely raise this money with all your support and encouragement. Please donate generously and forward the same to your kind heart friends. Every dollar can help this little one.
To look at the certificates from doctor and photographs of Tarun and his sister Pragna, please
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April, 2012
Earth Day, Every day in Ever Green State
The VT Seva Seattle group of volunteers joined together to clean up a neighborhood park in City of Sammamish. We teamed up with Sammamish City personnel from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM for this Earth Day park cleanup activity. Adult volunteers helped to clean up the trash bins, picnic tables, barbecue stations and walls of a shaded area. The youngsters and children picked up the broken branches and cleared the walkways. Some adults also removed the weeds in the garden and helped with other garden activities. It was a wonderful experience to all those who participated, and city personnel appreciated them all. We combined this event with picnic, and children enjoyed playing games after traditional Indian style luncheon (Pulihora, Daddojanam, Fruit Salad, etc).
We signed up to help with the clean up throughout the year and are looking forward to be instrumental in protecting our environment in our neighborhood. Children were also educated about how much dependent we are on environment and how we can work together to keep it clean and safe.
Here is the
link to all earth day photos
Jan 7, 2012
VT Seva voluteers at Northwest Harvest food house
At the Northwest Harvest Food warehouse, 25 memebrs of VT Seva volunteered in packing around 7,500 lbs. of pasta shells. All the volunteers had so much fun that there was an immediate request to have an event again. Reddy, the Seattle branch director is working on scheduling more.
The Northwest Harvest Food Bank has been very appreciative of the continuing support of VT Seva.
Please
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for photos from the event.
Dec 9 2011
Seattle volunteers organize food drive for the holidays
VT Seva organized a food drive to support the
Northwest Harvest food bank
The team encouraged their families, friends, colleagues and neighbors to get involved in the food drive.
A total of 500 lbs. of non-perishable food like canned vegetables, canned fruits, beans etc has been collected.
This food will feed 300-400 people.
Please
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for photos from the event.
Dec 2011
VT Seva supports Orphanage
VT Seva Seattle (Done through Abhayaprada) has donated Rs. 50,000 to Cheers Foundation orphanage towards school fees for orphaned children.
Dec 2011
Abhayaprada is now part of VT Seva, Seattle
VT Seva welcomes the volunteers of Abhayaprada. Abhayaprada has been dissolved and now and its service activities will be done through VT Seva.
For the last 15 years, the volunteers of Abhayaprada have been supporting various social causes such as supporting kidney/heart operations, providing education, food. medicines, scholarships to orphan chidren.
Srinivas & Kiran, the founding members of Abhayaprada, will now be the branch director for VT Seva Seattle and the coordinator for the pillar of education.