School Club

Detroit

March 8, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM

VTS Troy High club students folded 600+ bags for Gleaners food drive

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Bay Area

September 26, 2022 at 12:00:00 AM

VTSEVA Youth volunteers cleaned local streets and parks of trash or litter, working to keep our cities clean! Before Covid, volunteers used to go together and adopt a street. Now guidelines have changed to minimize the spread of COVID-19. It is now an individual activity. Each member provides a date and time they plan to do the activity. Then after they finish their trash picking they collect the following information. Time, date, location of the activity, how much distance they covered and names of the streets/how much trash was collected

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Detroit

March 25, 2022 at 12:00:00 AM

VTS Detroit YB Open Door Outreach Center VT Seva Detroit Youth Board is very active and they got approval to start clubs in two different Troy high schools. Both Troy High & International Academy school students have already started working together while waiting for rest of the club-founding steps to be completed. On March 26, they volunteered at the Open-Door Outreach Center. The staff were very friendly as they were patient with the sorting and answered any questions with no problem. All the volunteers found this project satisfying and fun-filled! Project Initiator: Harish Jaisankar

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Cincinnati

June 18, 2022 at 12:00:00 AM

Summer tennis camp for kids is a 4 week or 8 week program where youth volunteers teach playing tennis from basic to advanced levels while making it fun

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Atlanta

July 9, 2022 at 12:00:00 AM

On July 10th, a team of 25 plus VT Seva Atlanta youths and adults volunteered at Meals By Grace, a food ministry that sorts, packs and delivers food to the needy in Forsyth County in northern suburbs of Atlanta. The volunteers worked on Produce, Breads and Load teams. As part of Produce team, they sorted produce, cut fruit and loaded 59 boxes with variety of fresh produce such as salad mixes, vegetables such as onions, potatoes, squash, fruits such as bananas, strawberries, and herbs. The bread team loaded bags with different kinds of bread, dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls and other desserts.The load team helped unload the pantry truck and then load the boxes in cars for delivery to the families. Our group delivered food to the needy families at the end of service. It’s a gratifying experience for all youth and adult volunteers🙏

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New Jersey

February 7, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Volunteering at Jeeyar Book Store!

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Columbus

August 6, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM

Vt Seva Volunteers participated in the Dublin Irish festival where they managed a station to give out tokens for the bouncy house

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Cary

April 16, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva Cary conducted their April Monthly Meeting on April 17th, 2021. At the beginning of the meeting, the new 2021 youth board was introduced. They are: Thanuj Desu - President Rohitha Sanka - Vice President Mahathi Mallela - Secretary Nithya Janapati - Associate Secretary Sribhaavita Nekkalapudi - Communications Lead Manasvini Gudibandi - Associate Communication Lead Then, announcing about the most important volunteering opportunity of the month, Sribhaavita Nekkalapudi explained about VT Seva Cary’s ‘Research’ competition for Earth Day. For this competition, each participating volunteer was asked to choose a topic and research a specific question about the chosen topic. Manasvini Gudibandi then talked about the ‘Take Action’ Competition for Earth Day. For this competition, each participating volunteer was asked to choose a topic and take action on a question about that topic. After that, Siddharth Malireddy gave a violin performance as this month’s spotlight. He performed the national anthems of the United States and India. Following the violin performance, one of our core volunteers at VT Seva Cary and long time follower of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji, Aravind Swamy, shared his experience on volunteering with VT Seva, and how volunteering helps many in need. Next, there was a discussion about communication and social media and how to utilize the platforms to share our activities, spread the word and inspire others about volunteering. Later volunteers were informed about the upcoming summer camp and how they can participate in the camp. Finally, volunteers concluded the session with a game of Kahoot and Mafia. Overall it was a very informative session where volunteers learned about the current and upcoming activities of VT Seva and were inspired by the spotlight and speaker series.

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New Jersey

February 14, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

VTSEVA NJ youth volunteering @ Jeeyar Asramam book store today on 02/15. Janya Samanthika ,Sanjit Tummalapalli ,Aryan Narra ,Mahalaxmi Akkinapalli participated in sorting books From 2-4pm!

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Charlotte

April 22, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva Charlotte celebrates our annual seedlings events for the 3rd year in a row!! The youth volunteers nurtured around 500 plants from the seed to the sapling. With tender care they were able to successfully raise over 400 of the saplings to good health. The seedlings ranged from a variety of flowers to vegetables like peppers, cucumber, squash and a variety of gourds. A group of 30 dedicated volunteers plus a few additional adult volunteers collectively met over the span of 2 months to come together and care for these plants. The volunteers set up a booth and sold the seedling to local community members, all the proceeds went towards Netra Vidyala the school of the blind.

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Detroit

July 16, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Penrickton Center is a private non-profit organization that provides care and support to blind, multi-disabled children and their families.Penrickton Center for Blind Children provides services to families at no charge, and relies entirely on donations from the community. Throughout the year Penrickton Center sends out requests for donations, and invitations to raise funds. VT Seva Detroit volunteers got this opportunity to help them assemble their Mailing Supplies items in envelopes as per their directions for their fund raising purposes. After completion of our FIRST Batch Mailing Supplies Project, we reached out to the Penrickton Center if they can give us more supplies for our volunteers who are eager to do . Penrickton Center were kind enough to provide us with more Mailing Supplies for VT Seva Detroit. There were 18 youth volunteers who participated in this remote volunteering project. The mailing supplies were picked up from the Penrickton Center, sorted and organized as 15 kits with 200 plus of each items. The kits were later distributed to volunteers to do at their homes and then to be dropped off before July 2nd, 2021. On the whole we delivered around 4000 envelopes in this Second batch of our Mailing Supplies Project to Penrickton Center for Blind Children. We received lots of appreciations from the Penrickton Center coordinators for this great help by our volunteers since it saves a lot of their time in doing this task before proceeding to their next step of sending these mails to all their donors. Youth volunteers who participated: 𝐃𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐑, 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐚 ,𝐘𝐮𝐠, 𝐇𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐚 , 𝐀𝐧𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐚𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢, 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐇, 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐀, 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐯 𝐌, 𝐏𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧, 𝐀𝐫𝐲𝐚, 𝐄𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚, 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐚, 𝐓𝐞𝐣𝐚𝐬, 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐯 𝐉, 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐯 𝐓, 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒, 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢 Great job youth volunteers for such an awesome job. Thank you very much parents for coordinating with to pick up their kits and drop-off on time. Thank you so much for all your time & amazing help AS ALWAYS YOUR SUPPORT IS OUR STRENGTH TO SERVE!!

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Atlanta

February 24, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva Atlanta youths participated in the Bird House Making & Feeding project with fervor and zeal. Can You imagine a world without birds? Birds paly an essential role in our eco-system as they are the predators, pollinators, scavengers, and seed dispersers. If birds are healthy, our eco- system is also healthy as they are the eco-system engineers. More than 60 Atlanta youths of all age groups enjoyed making creative bird houses to provide home and food to the birds in this harsh winter. It’s good to know that our youths care about birds and building healthy habitat in Atlanta. Each youth will put bird seeds and water in their bird house year-round which will be instrumental in birds’ nurturing and growth and also contribute significantly in making our planet earth healthy. We raised $500 which was donated for the food for the blind/visually challenged students of Nethra Vidyalaya, India. It’s a gratifying experience for the Atlanta VT Seva Team and this is just a beginning... our giving wings of inspiration will never stop pushing us to the new heights!