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The Halloween Initiative was a youth driven event and served as a candy drive, where volunteers cumulatively collected as much candy as possible to later give to army troops, as well as help raise money for visually challenged children.

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For the fourth and final session of VT - Seva Bay Area’s nutrition workshop, youth leader Sriteja Kataru spoke about a very important topic, physical health. The webinar consisted of an informative session on the importance of physical health, what physical health means, how much exercise an adolescent should receive and a q&a to end off!

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For the month of November, VT Seva Bay Area’s Environmental Services had it’s monthly street cleanup. Youth volunteers cleaned local streets and parks of trash or litter, working to keep our cities clean! You can also check out our instagram - @vtsbayarea for more pictures!

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VTSeva in collaboration with Sewa USA has conducted Holidays canned food drive to fill the local food bank pantries.

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"Fleece & Thankyou" is dedicated to providing connection, comfort, and hope through its innovative programs, services, and materials to children facing illness and their families supporting them.  Their goal is to provide every child facing hospital treatments with a colorful, comfortable fleece blanket and a video message of support from its maker.  This is our second visit there and we really loved helping them and being part of their kind wonderful cause. Our volunteers did various tasks such as 1. Cutting the strip cloth; 2. Hot pressing labels on each blankets; 3. Bundling all the blankets neatly and stack in covers & boxes; 4. Folding blankets ; 5. Organizing warehouse blankets storage boxes finally cleaned their workarea.  On a whole we all worked on 1000 blankets which are ready for a child to use in a hospital

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VT Seva Houston volunteers participated in a 100-tree planting activity under the guidance of the Alief Super Neighborhood Council. Along with several local volunteers from various organizations and schools, our volunteers learned and implemented the process of planting trees for sustained growth. We thank Alief Super Neighborhood Council and Keep Houston Beautiful for the service opportunity!

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The Pink List is a nonprofit organization that provides resources to families affected by breast cancer, while further raising awareness around breast cancer. ThePINK List is committed to sending chemotherapy care packages (Pink Kits) to Karmonos Cancer Institute for breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, includings 50 patients at the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Each Pink Kit includes:Pink fuzzy socks; Unscented moisturizer; Lip balm;Pink journal and pen;Herbal tea bags and a letter of hope. Oasis Skin Studio hosted The PinkList Packing event in their studio. VT Seva Detroit got an opportunity to help them pack these kits and sort out their kits as per their instructions & we were able to pack 46 kits overall in an hour. Lending support is great, but cancer patients can also benefit from positive messages. Our youth volunteers also wrote kind letters of encouragements, inspirational things for these cancer patients . We hope their words of hope motivates them to get through another day of their hospital treatments and bring some smile on their faces.

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Austin VTSeva has conducted a Summer and Fall book drive to help the selected Title 1 schools of roundrock isd who have less than 5 books in their home library.

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For the third session of VT - Seva Bay Area’s nutrition workshop, youth leader Sriteja Kataru informed youth volunteers about stress. The webinar consisted of an informative session on the causes of stress, why it is unhealthy to be regularly stressed, common stress diseases and a q&a to end off!

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🍁 A Thanksgiving Gratitude 🍁 Atlanta VT Seva youth are collecting unused winter clothes for the patients of American Kidney Services. All donations will go to the kidney patients in Georgia and Nationwide. American Kidney Services (AKS) strives to help kidney disease sufferers who are in financial need. AKS, in conjunction with American Kidney Fund, will take your clothes and turn them into direct monetary support for patients struggling to pay bills due to high cost in medical care and dialysis.

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VT Seva San Antonio collaborated with SewaDiwali team and local dharmic organizations to help out San Antonio Food Bank with a Food Drive. VT Seva volunteers raised over 500 lbs food for this noble initiative.

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VT Seva Lambert youth members believe in positivism and humanism in the midst of the pandemic landscape. The path we have taken to accomplish this goal is to make sure everyone has masks. Many hospitals ran out of masks during the pandemic. To help them, VT Seva youth have spent hours stitching handmade cloth masks. Many of the volunteers had never even touched a sewing machine before. They spent hours learning how to use a sewing machine and then stitched over 10,000 handmade masks from 2020-2021. The majority of these masks have been donated to the special needs kids of the Laurel Heights Hospital. It’s a kid-to-kid project. VT Seva Atlanta Lambert Youth Club members are making cloth masks and donating it to raise funds for the education of 10 visually challenged kids in India. It’s like the Girls Scout cookie project (instead of cookies, they are selling masks). Whether helping Special Needs kids of the Laurel Heights Hospital Atlanta or Visually Challenged kids of Nethra Vidyalaya, Atlanta VT Seva youth are always there in the fore font for service.

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VT Seva Houston and Katy's Annual Fundraising Event Alok for the education of Visually Challenged and Tribal Students was a great success! The annual event is an opportunity to thank all those who have kindly contributed to VT Seva’s causes and to celebrate the spirit of giving. The virtual event was organized by the youth team and included a presentation of this year’s VT Seva events. Another highlight of the program was a wonderful interview with Netra Vidyalaya college administrator Krishna Kumari ji and students Ms. Krishnaveni and Ms. Lalitha. The program also featured local talent and entertainment for our virtual audience. We sincerely thank our generous donors and supporters and are well on our way to our goal of supporting 305 students!

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VT Seva Lambert youth members believe in positivism and humanism in the midst of the pandemic landscape. The path we have taken to accomplish this goal is to make sure everyone has masks. Many hospitals ran out of masks during the pandemic. To help them, VT Seva youth have spent hours stitching handmade cloth masks. Many of the volunteers had never even touched a sewing machine before. They spent hours learning how to use a sewing machine and then stitched over 10,000 handmade masks from 2020-2021. The majority of these masks have been donated to the special needs kids of the Laurel Heights Hospital. It’s a kid-to-kid project. VT Seva Atlanta Lambert Youth Club members are making cloth masks and donating it to raise funds for the education of 10 visually challenged kids in India. It’s like the Girls Scout cookie project (instead of cookies, they are selling masks). Whether helping Special Needs kids of the Laurel Heights Hospital Atlanta or Visually Challenged kids of Nethra Vidyalaya, Atlanta VT Seva youth are always there in the fore font for service.

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VT Seva San Antonio was very happy for the opportunity to help out at the Blessed Angels church on Veteran's Day. Our youth volunteers wrapped gifts for kids during their time at the church. The church needed help and the co-ordinators were very thankful for our volunteers time with a very short notice.