2024 Accomplishments
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
This year has been an extraordinary year of meaningful impact, transformative change, and lasting progress, made possible by your unwavering support, generous donations, inspiring contributions, and heartfelt dedication.

What we did
323
PVSA awards
239
Community Service activities
87
Total fundraising activities
62
Education activities
54
Environment activities
33
Healthcare activities
24
Webinars/Camps
13
Annual Events
Year full of activities
With the support of thousands of volunteers and donors, we had an incredibly impactful year filled with numerous activities dedicated to uplifting and empowering our community.
Highlighting these efforts, 323 youth volunteers were honored with the President's Volunteer Service Awards, a testament to their unwavering dedication and inspiring spirit of volunteerism.
"Volunteering is the heart of community, where small acts of kindness ripple into lasting impact, proving that together, we can create a better world."
Impact by numbers
We have a tremendous uplift in numbers from year before
35,000 +
Youth volunteering hours
100,000+
Participants
550+
Total events
60,000+
Total Volunteer hours
"Partnership is the bridge that connects hearts and hands, turning shared efforts into lasting impact and transforming communities together."
We fostered new partnerships in 2024
Checkout our event log

VT Seva Houston Youth Team's Webinar on Gardening
Houston
March 20, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM
The VT Seva Houston team presented a Webinar on Gardening on March 21,2021 covering topics such as indoor and outdoor gardening and concepts such as composting. It was a fun and interactive experience with a Kahoot game and a questions and answers portion. You can check out the video at https://youtu.be/PeOmNi9wCvc

Mask donation for the Special-Need kids at the Laurel Heights Hospital
Atlanta
December 1, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM
In the words of Helen Keller, ‘The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart’. Our VT Seva children have touched the hearts of Special needs kids of Laurel Heights Hospital. Shout out to VT Seva Atlanta children for donating 10,000 masks to the Special Need Kids of the Laurel Heights Hospital. Mr. Patrick, the current CEO, Corry, the interim CEO and Dr. Smitha Battula are very thankful to all the VT Seva children and their parents for their outstanding service. In Corry’s words “Masks came right on time for our organization”. Our VT Seva children has touched the lives of special need kids and all the Laurel Heights Doctors and staff members. VT Seva enjoys the partnership with Laurel Heights hospital. We will continue to strengthen in future. Atlanta VT Seva Youth Rocks ✌️✌️✌️

Juneteenth Festival
Branch
Cary
June 15, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM
Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates African American Freedom and emphasizes education and the desire to advance to an equitable society. This annual festival serves as a time to reflect on the past and acknowledge our present and how far we've come. Volunteers at VT Seva demonstrated their support for their community and people all around us through helping out at this event.

VT Seva Detroit October 14th,Motown Soup volunteering
Detroit
October 14, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM
VT Seva Detroit volunteers 1st volunteering event at Motown Soup. We thank A Time to Help Say Detroit for collabrating with VT Seva in this wonderful oppourtunity at Motown Soup. Our volunteers did a fantastic job in packing more than 1000 soup and dry mixes and finally cleaned up the work areas. packed soup and other dry mixes. These products truly makes a difference in the lives of the hungry , homeless and hurting throughout Michigan. We are looking forward for more such opportunities.

EYE GLASS DRIVE - Nov 2021👓
Detroit
November 29, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM
VT Seva Youth Board conducted their Eye Glass Drive as part of their November month Project. Thanks to Youth Board Member Rishi Proposing this idea. 22 youth board members collected 72 prescription eye glass Eye glassess were donated at Northville Eyeglass World. Lions club partner with Eyeglass world in collecting them. Used eyeglasses that are collected by Lions and other volunteers are recycled at one of ten Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centers throughout the world. The used eyeglasses are cleaned, repaired and classified by prescription. The eyeglasses are then distributed to those in need by Lion volunteers and other organizations hosting optical missions in developing countries

VTSEVA Chicago - Volunteering at FMSC
Chicago
March 10, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM
On Mar 11th 2023, VTSEVA Chicago (Buffalo Grove area) volunteers participated in Food packing even at Feed My Starving Children. Along with other volunteers, our volunteers helped to pack 25,056 meals, which can feed about 68 kids for whole year! 5 adult & 10 youth volunteers participated in this event from VTSEVA.

Atlanta VT Seva Bird Feeding Project
Atlanta
February 18, 2022 at 12:00:00 AM
On February 19, 2022, Atlanta VT Seva youths participated in a unique Bird Feeding project. They believe that birds had a tough winter, thus their promised themselves that let no bird die looking for food in spring. Atlanta youths spread their giving wings first by building bird houses and later putting bird seeds in it on the regular basis throughout the year. This project was an inspiration from Krishna Kanth ji in which he offered bird seeds to pigeons and other birds as an act of kindness. More than 25 Atlanta VT Seva youths participated in this bird feeding project. We collected $120 from this project which we used in donating for 1 day food to the Nethra Schools children for all 3 meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner). It’s a win-win situation for everybody - for the birds, for our Nethra School kids, and our Atlanta VT Seva youths as they implemented what they learned in the Prajna classes of serving all beings as service to God.

Bayarea PVSA - 2nd annual awards ceremony
Bay Area
October 27, 2019 at 12:00:00 AM
Bayarea celebrated 2nd annual PVSA awards ceremony. The youth volunteers received 9 Gold, 3 Silver and 12 Bronze awards. The awards are based on age of volunteers and number of hours they put in volunteering. Additional information can be found here.

Sai Mandhir Volunteering
Cary
January 27, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM
VT Seva youth volunteers came forward to serve the community by helping in the Sai Mandhir kitchen. There were 8 Volunteers who spent 24 hours for the service. The volunteers were involved in the activities such as: Packed the food into smaller take-out prasadham packets. Distributed the prasadham packets. Clean up the kitchen after packing.

Food packing at Child hope International
Cincinnati
August 14, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM
on 8/15, few volunteers from VTSeva - Cincinnati participated at Child hope international in packing high protein food for hungry children in Honduras. Kudos to them

Feeding My Starving Children Food Bank Sorting
Dallas
June 27, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM
VT Seva Dallas participated at Feed My Starving Children Food bank sorting and Packing volunteering activity on Saturday- June 3rd Kudos to all the youth and Adult volunteers(around 40)who were part of this activity. All the packed food are for the underprivileged kids in Kenya, Haiti, Thailand and Chili countries. Volunteers packed nutritious food (Rice, Soy, dried Vegetables and Vitamin protein powder) into 94 boxes that makes 20,304 meals. Great job volunteers. Keep up the volunteering spirit. Special mention to adult lead -Mrs. Gunjan and Youth lead Devayani for leading this effort!

























