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VT Seva Atlanta was proud to organize a ‘Police Appreciation cum Award Ceremony’ at City Hall on May 12th, 2022, at Johns Creek City Hall. This event was organized in collaboration with Johns Creek Police Department (JCPD). During this event, our VT youths of Atlanta were graced with the presence of Sergeant Seymour and Officer Wear, as well as several other police officials that night, allowing our students to directly thank their heroes with homemade cards during the National Police Appreciation Week. The program started with a Welcome Note by Dr. Madhu Nemani, VT SEVA Atlanta Director and later a video was played exhibiting and highlighting the initiatives and activities performed by VT SEVA youths in year 2021 & 2022 which comprises of Mask Making for the Special Needs Kids of the Laurel Heights Hospital, Eco-friendly April Cool Seedling project, Feed the Needy though Meals By Grace program, and serving the underprivileged by participating in American Kidney Services and American Heart Walk, VT SEVA Youth Club in Lambert Highschool, Summer Camp program, Card Making for Nethra School Kids and SUBHA Annual Event. All the police officers were fascinated at the hard work, dedication, and diligence shown by the youths and adults of VT Seva Atlanta.

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Sabercat is an urban habitat park, composed of a creek, trail and habitat restoration areas set in south east Fremont. There have been fossil findings of sabercat, mastodon and western camel in this area. City of Fremont’s community services department has been restoring the sabercat historic habitat along with a crew of volunteers. The volunteers help restore the area's native plant diversity by removing invasive species, so that there are enough nutrients for native plants. Restoring native plants and vegetation also helps the native wildlife and insects thrive as they depend on these plants for food and shelter.The volunteers also help out by cleaning the existing creek of trash and debris that are harmful to the creek habitat. By cleaning the creek the volunteers also help improve the quality of water flowing to the bay.

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Volunteering at the international humanitarian aid and disaster relief organization, Matthew 25: Ministries! VT Seva volunteers helped sort out clothing of about 50 boxes

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Plant Sale by VT Seva Youth Volunteers to raise funds for the Nethra Vidyalaya

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As National Police Week is falling this month (from May 15 to 21, 2022) VT Seva Detroit hosted an Appreciation lunch for NOVI Police Department on May 8th, 2022. Like last year, VT Seva Detroit got an opportunity to visit Novi Police Department and extend our sincere gratitude by hosting an appreciation lunch along with a Thank you poster frame for their tireless hard work and endless selfless services to protect us all. This was a great opportunity for us to personally meet them and thank them immensely. During our visit, we met Sgt. Boody, Officer Thibault and Cadet Officer Gacesa. Followed by our appreciation lunch, some of our VT Seva Detroit volunteers got another great opportunity to tour their facility and learn more about how the police department function. This is our second police station tour this year and we are very grateful to Sergeant Jenkinson for all his help in getting this scheduled for our Detroit Volunteers. We VT Seva Detroit, thank all those Police officers who don’t give up and work day in and day out with alertness and make sure to keep the people safe in our community. VT Seva Detroit sincerely thank Novi Police Department for providing us this great opportunity. Since this is a courtesy tour for volunteers there won't be any hours provided to youth/adult.

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Gleaners Community Food Bank is a community where children and families thrive and have access to healthy food and an array of services that improve their overall quality of life. The mission of the Mercado Food Hub at the Ford Resource and Engagement Center is to alleviate hunger among families who reside in the neighborhoods of Southwest Detroit by providing access to food, service referrals and advocacy for basic needs. Our 8 wonderful VT Seva Detroit volunteers did a fabulours job together as a group and showed great volunteering spirit packing overall 8436 pounds of food which was served to more than 75 plus families in Detroit area.

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Volunteers helped to sticker books for under-served Chicagoland children. 10 volunteers joined this session.

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VT Seva Columbus volunteered along with the Dublin chamber of commerce to aid senior citizens with yard and deck clenup

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On May 14th , 15 VT Seva Cary volunteers took part in cleaning and gardening SV Temple. From 9:00 am to about 1:30 pm the volunteers were told to do various tasks by the temple officials. These tasks ranged from cleaning the sidewalks of the temple to adding soil to the flower beds. The volunteers that participated in this event provided service to the community by making SV Temple look and have a better environment around.

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Adopt a Creek is similar to another event Bay Area VT Seva hosts called Street Cleaning. In Adopt a Creek volunteers go together to a creek, and clean up the nearby area. This is a new event bay Area VT Seva is bringing.

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Health Services webinars are hosted in order to educate participants on nutrition, diseases, and health. This will be done by having guest speakers talk about their expertise of a certain health subject or by having a fitness session to keep everyone's body healthy.

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), organic waste makes up more than 28% of landfills. Unfortunately, landfills lack the necessary conditions for ample decomposition. Rather than adding to landfills, composting is a much better solution. By composting we are able to reduce the amount of waste that ends up at landfills, and instead, we let the nutrients return back to Earth so it can be recycled naturally. This event focuses on having volunteers make compost in their own gardens. Volunteers will take pictures each weekend on how the compost is coming along.

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow and Atlanta VT Seva youths exhibited their belief in tomorrow by planting numerous seeds and saplings at Happy Family Farms on May 1st, 2022. They took weeds out and cleaned the ground for the saplings to grow and cultivate the crops. Total 23 people participated in this service project which comprises of 15 youths and 8 adults. They worked 3 hours at the farm and enjoyed working at the farm under the supervision of Harika Pavan, the farm owner. She was very kind in guiding Atlanta youths in the right direction of dos and don’ts of farming. It was an amazing sight to see all youths working very hard in the farm by removing weeds, sow seeds, and plants some saplings. They planted Moringa, Okra and Marigold saplings. They also sowed Marigold seeds at the farm. The farm owner has also provided them a land where they can grow their plants and nurture plants under her supervision. This is an eco-friendly initiative of Atlanta VT Seva to motivate our youths to stay connected with nature and preserve nature for the future generations. Overall, it was a wonderful experience for all the Atlanta youths and adults.

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Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon is a "Wetland in the City." This innovative area is used for flood control but also as a wildlife sanctuary for the many species that live in an urban environment. Since the land is 17 acres it is being restored to the flora of a San Francisco Bay area of at least 1 million years old. Native trees, shrubs, and flowers are being introduced which then bring some of the native fauna. Volunteers at Tule Ponds participate in many activities such as native plant installation (planting trees, shrubs or wildflowers), non-native plant removal, trash removal from ponds and trails, spreading mulch and chips around plants and on trails and much more!

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VT Seva Detroit Youth Board resumed their road clean up activity on May 1, 2022. 16 bags of trash was collected , lots of plastic bottles, plastic bags, golf balls, coffee cups, car tire scraps, metal from cars, gloves, cigar butts and much more...