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Minneapolis

May 19, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva MN has organized a night out where the ladies had fun dancing Zumba, singing, games and more

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Seattle

April 7, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM

Proud of our VTSeva Seattle Team for a massively successful UTSAV Annual Event on April 7th. Our youth team had the opportunity to showcase the journey of our Netra Robotics team to the world championship through a captivating Drama. Together in 2023, we empowered by sponsoring education for 652 students across our Netra Vidyalaya and Jeeyar Gurukulam schools. We are incredibly proud of our dedicated volunteers and thankful for the donors who supported our mission. The Utsav Event was a night filled with captivating performances, heartfelt moments, and inspiring stories, leaving a lasting impact on all attendees.

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Cary

March 17, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM

An annual event, we have come back to volunteer at the FS Series Marathon. We have taken part in this event multiple years in the past, always asked to come back and help them out more and more. This is due to the tremendous jobs our volunteers are able to do as part of the event time after time. This year at the 2024 Tobacco Road Marathon volunteers supported the water aid station. They were set up handing out closed bottles to the runners as well as pumping up their spirits and cheering them on. Our volunteers were able to be organized while also creating an efficient water hand-off station which ensured that the event was well-organized and a positive experience for runners.

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Bay Area

April 10, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

For one of VT Seva Bay Area’s Environmental Services events, we had our first creek cleanup! Youth volunteers went along the sides of a local milpitas creek and picked up garbage, waste, along with much more! This kept out ducks, turtles, and fish safe!

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Cary

June 18, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

Occurring on June 19th, 20th, 26th, and 27th in 2021, Chandu Changalvala led a workshop for rising 12th graders to talk about her experience writing college essays and discussing some points about writing essays. Chandu is a rising college freshman, heading to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on the Levine Scholarship, and a former VT Seva Cary Youthboard President in 2020-2021. On the first day of the camp, Chandu communicated to the students about the information on the college application process and the timeline of applications, including types of applications and their requirements. During the second day, the students brainstormed different topics they were interested in, with their own life lessons, and created rough drafts of essays for those topics. On the third day of the boot camp, they chose the essay draft they liked the most and wrote another draft of that chosen topic. Chandu also met with each student individually and discussed things they can change about their essay draft. On the last day of the camp, the students made their final essay drafts of their chosen topic and met with Chandu for any questions they had. The students came out of this boot camp with a great understanding of college essay writing and had a well-written college essay, as all funds and proceeds have been donated to Bharat Covid Relief Fund, for COVID-19 relief for India.

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Bay Area

May 22, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

During the month of May, youth volunteers made a total of 50 sandwiches that were delivered at a housing shelter at noon. The sandwiches were packed with snacks and a drink in order to keep a fellow friend full!

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Detroit

May 19, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva Detroit volunteered at Forgotten Harvest on May 20th, 2023. Our VT Seva volunteers helped Forgotten Harvest in their fight against hunger and food insecurity. 16 VT Seva Detroit volunteers (Youth & Adults) gathered today at Forgotten Harvest in Oak Park. Today's volunteering was aimed at impacting over many families all over Metro Detroit. Today, we packed 12,000 pounds and 10 pellets of food into 500 boxes to be delivered to food pantries in Oak Park , Dearborn, Detroit areas. Volunteers helped clean the processing room, by scrubbing the tables, sweeping/mopping/scrubbing the floors after the packing is done.

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Atlanta

September 8, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM

Club Initiation South Forsyth Highschool is our 7th VT Seva youth Club in Atlanta. It is established on August 28, 2023. Please read the message below from our youth club President Nikhila, very inspirational Hello everyone, my name is Nikhila Mannepalli, and I am the President of South Forsyth High School VT Seva Club! Our now VT Seva members including myself have been separately trying to start this VT Seva club since January of this year, long before any of us knew there were others trying to start the club. It was a difficult process at that time, as no teacher was willing to sponsor the club, we hardly had any members, and the process was very scattered and unorganized. Throughout those experiences, each one of us learned a lot individually about communication, teamwork, and taking initiative, and got together to form a new, bigger SFHS VT Seva group at the beginning of August. Soon enough, with proper communication, productive meetings, discussions, and good organization, we were able to successfully find a sponsor, submit an application, and get the club approved today! What was taking us months of time as we attempted to start the club separately took mere weeks when we all came together to be a team.

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Detroit

March 31, 2023 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva Detroit Volunteers had another enriching day on 04/01/2023 at the Ford Welness Center helping out Destined for Greatness Community Resource Center. *11 volunteers participated in volunteering their time and efforts who did a great job in giving back to the community. These are some of the activities done by the team: 1. Sorted the diapers and arranged them in bags based on their sizes to free up boxes. 2. The books were sorted and boxed based on reading levels of the kids 3. Store Room was sorted, organized, and all text books arranged in bins based on their Grade Levels 4. Easter items were cleaned up and stored in the store room 5. The locker rooms were cleaned well & all the clothes were sorted and arranged peoperly 6. Moved many items from across the building, bagged and arranged in storage area 7. Broke down the cardboard boxes for trash 8. Finally, folded all big tables, cleared the trash, and cleaned up the gym area.

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Houston

February 25, 2024 at 12:00:00 AM

On February 25, VT Seva Houston youth volunteers participated in the Friends of Garden - Annual Gardening Workshop. The activity started with filling the garden beds with soil for the planting activity. Mr. Sasidhar Vajha, the guest speaker for this event and avid gardener in his community, spoke about the importance of gardening and engaged the youth in a rock painting activity. This was followed by the volunteers planting a few varieties of vegetable plants and sowing seeds of cosmos flowers to attract butterflies, which are pollinators, to the ALT garden. Vibha, a youth volunteer, shared her experiences and knowledge about pollination. Ms. Terry, author of Master Garden Urban Dirt, also took part in the event. Thanking the youth volunteers for their engagement throughout the duration of the workshop!

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Cary

October 30, 2021 at 12:00:00 AM

During the last weekend of October 30th and 31th, VT-SEVA Cary and it’s enthusiastic volunteers participated in the RDC Marathon, which took place in Apex. Waking up early on the weekends, the volunteers were determined to help out and give back to the community. On a series of two days, the volunteers cheerfully and enthusiastically participated on both days. Time stamps ranged from early at 6:30 in the morning till almost noon. Small groups of VT-SEVA’s volunteers encouraged and did everything they could to make this experience good for them, as well as the participating runners. VT-SEVA has previously, many times, been participating in the FS-Series as well, and as much as it brought joy to the volunteers as always, this was no different. Many volunteers encouraged as they saw the participants running with as much enthusiasm. The twist of Halloween and fall although, brought even more excitement. Many participants were dressed up in their halloween costumes, and our volunteers cheered, encouraged and clapped for their determination and participation. VT-SEVA Cary has always been, and will definitely love to continue being a part of this journey with FS-Series and supporting marathon runners for the good cause, in the long run.

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Houston

January 3, 2020 at 12:00:00 AM

VT Seva Houston participated in Lunches of Love event.