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For Labor Day (September 4th, 2023), 24 VTSEVA Detroit Youth Board members participated in the "Essential Workers Appreciation project", and showed their appreciation to these workers. Youth made lovely handwritten cards and handed them over along with some goodies to the Firefighters, Police, Nurses, Trash Crew, Postal workers, School Janitors, Custodians, school lunch ladies, Grocery store workers, drivers and vegetable vendors

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Conducted a blood donation drive at Memorial Blood Center. We are thankful to 15+ volunteers who contributed to this life-saving cause

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Writing letters to seniors

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MN Youth team has gathered over 1000 books for the "Books for Africa" organization.

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Troy High School Club and Troy IAE School Club members led the Tennis Tournament to raise funds for Nethravidyalaya students education

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15 VT Seva Detroit Volunteers worked tirelessly to assemble 1500 Hygiene Kits to distribute to the children at the Detroit Public School. 1500 lives were positively impacted by the hygiene kits that were assembled with so much love and care to alleviate their hygiene needs. All the volunteers felt a sense of purpose and experienced firsthand how impactful their involvement in this important aspect of our community is. Many volunteers made new friends and connections during the event and learned how to give back to the community.

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VT Seva Maryland Youthleaders performed community clean up activity at Landsdale community on August 26, 2023. Landsdale community is Located in southern Frederick County and there are 1000+ families live in this community. Our 27 youth leaders went across Landsdale community and cleaned different places like Streets, Play parks, Volley ball court, Tennis court, Zip line park, Gazebo, Club house, etc., We collected all the plastics on the roads and dumped into recycle bins. We also educated kids/adults about the environmental awareness and requested few neighbors to join us for the clean up activity.It's a pride moment to wear VT Seva T shirts and doing the work of giving back to the community!

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Incredible work done by our VT Seva Youth and Adult volunteers at the Food Bank @Durham inside the warehouse at Food Bank. Youth and adult volunteers participated in sorting out the produce and place them in the bags, sorting out donations from retail stores such as Food Lion and Harris Teeter, cleaned and bagged the juice packets, build CSFP boxes for senior citizens, sorted and inspected food drive donations from individuals and corporate donations, clea and sort out eggs, bagged cereal, rice, pasta into boxes. Kudos to all the volunteers for their tremendous effort.

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Our VT Seva volunteers had done amazing work volunteering at the Diaper Bank, Durham location on Aug 19th 2023. There were around 24 volunteers that participated in wrapping diapers in the Durham Diaper Bank. All the wrapped diaper packets were distributed to families with babies and children living in poverty. A Big Thanks to all the volunteers in helping out for the great cause.

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On August 19, VT Seva set up a booth at LCIA( Lake County Indian Association) India Independence Day festival. We were fundraising for NethraVidyalaya along with collecting information of possible future volunteers. In gratitude for donor contributions to NethraVidhyalaya, we offered Indian flags, Indian flag pins, Indian flag stickers, Indian flag hand tattoos, different types of plants, and henna designs. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to all the volunteers who contributed their efforts to the VTSeva Information booth. The event was truly exceptional! Special thanks to Chakri Gandham, Seema Sivakumar, Rithvik Velpuri, Manas Sammeta, Charvik Gunda, Lakshmi Immadisetty, Mohisha Immadisetty, Veda Sivakumar, Sahithi Ranga, Kiva Verma, Ashitha Rudraraju, Sahasra Veerapalli, Sridevi Ranga, Sruthi Ranga, and Somalatha Veerapalli for their roles in booth setup, management, and assisting the LCIA team with various tasks. We extend our appreciation to Steven Joe, Krishna Dheeraj Ranga, Karthikeya Lanka, Shaunak Sahasrabudhe, and Sanchi Deshpande, as well as other volunteers from HSS (Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh), for their coordinated efforts in handling car parking. It's worth noting that we received high praise from HSS, with them stating, "We are very impressed by the VTSeva volunteers; their work was truly commendable." A special mention of gratitude to Ameya Gourisetty, Sonali Sahasrabudhe, and Anjali Moore for their wonderful contributions in offering mehndi designs and for Mohisha Immadisetty for making paper crafts for Netravidyalaya fundraising. Our thanks also extend to LCIA organizers Gowri Magati, Rekha Vemuri, and others for their unwavering support and encouragement throughout this endeavor. Overall we collected $386 for NethraVidyalya.

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We had a very collaborative meeting for Alpharetta High School’s VT Seva Club on August 18th, 2023. The participants learned all about the leaders and what the club does, like cleaning up parks, writing thank you cards, visiting old age homes and more. The members also learned about our programs like the presidential award and summer programs. The highlight of the meeting was getting to collaborate with the members on what future events we should plan. This was very important to the leaders as we want to create a comfortable and welcoming environment for the members, while getting to explore for more ideas for activities in the future. It was a very successful meeting.

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VT Seva Maryland Celebrates 77th India Independence Day!

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To Celebrate 77th Independence Day for India, 28 members from VT SEVA DETROIT YOUTH BOARD participated in creating informational posters about the 28 great states of India. They created a beautiful video with all the amazing posters and captured their memories into a blog.

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After gathering to make pins to sell at the independence day event, members of VT Seva gathered at a stall and put out a word for both VT Seva and raising funds for disabled education in India. Before setting up the booth, members participated in the flag march. Members held up the flag to show their pride in India and its independence. After the flag march, members set up the booth and offered face painting, the flag badges, and tulsi plants. This also advertised for our Subha event coming up in October. In total 50 youths and adults participated in this event. They split into groups. 3 groups walked around the event center to advertise Vt Seva and make sales. While the 3 groups were doing this, 2 groups were at the booth. One group made sales and another handled face painting and henna. By advertising VT Seva also gained new members as well as making sales. During the event, youths came up with new ways to do advertising, and innovative strategies. These strategies worked and raised more funds.

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On Saturday Aug 12th, 8 youth & 2 adult volunteers joined a fry for packing session at Feed My Starving children food bank.