VT Seva Cary volunteers on March 25th from 8am - 10 am have participated participated in the Adopt-A-Highway event. Volunteers cleaned 3 miles on Green Level Church Rd, between the Morrisville Pkwy & Carpenter Fire station road Intersections. VT Seva Cary did a fantastic cleanup as part of the Adopt A highway program.

On March 18th and March 19th 2023, 14 of our VT Seva Cary adult and youth volunteers participated in the volunteering opportunity from the Town of Morrisville to keep our stormwater clean with Drain Marking. Volunteers worked in groups for this effort. Volunteers were involved in monitoring the oncoming traffic, install drain marker, mark the drain on the map. A great effort by the volunteers to support the county

On March 19th,2023 Vt Seva Cary Kids volunteered at the FS Series Marathon. During the FS Series Half/Full Marathon, there were around a total of 2000 runners who had competed to support the great cause. As the duration of the race had started around 6:00AM and lasted till 11:00 AM, it was important for the racers to be hydrated throughout the race. As VT SEVA volunteers, we made it our job to make sure that these racers were hydrated during this race. We stood at aid Station which is usually the spot where runners start to find themselves dehydrated which is why we took the role of providing water, gatorade and even small nutritional snacks. We stationed ourselves on both sides of the track and made our own gatorade to provide for the racers. VT Seva made their mark by bringing joyful attitudes to this race and made sure to assist in every way possible. Volunteers constantly put work in to gather water, make gatorade, or simply pick trash up on the track so it’s safe for racers. FS series team was very happy & impressed with VT-Seva volunteers dedication.

On March 18th 2023, our youth volunteers had participated in the volunteering at the Town of Morrisville Green Day event. Volunteers helped the attendees where needed to recycle goods at different stations to ensure safe disposal. Each year, the Town of Morrisville hosts two Green Day events for community members to recycle goods that cannot be placed in residential recycling pickup and to dispose of hazardous or sensitive materials. These events are sponsored by the Public Works Department, the Sustainability Program, and the Morrisville Envnvironment and Stormwater Committee, and they take place each spring and fall.

A successful fundraising event starts with a spark of inspiration, followed by the drive to make it happen. We, the VT Seva Cary organized a successful Badminton fundraising event at the Triangle Badminton Club in Morrisville, NC. The funds were raised to support the Visually Challenged kids at Netra Vidyalaya, India for their education. The event was inaugurated by the Board of Cary on March 12th, 2023, 2 PM @The Triangle Badminton Club to support the great initiative. VT Seva Cary put in tremendous work in the background to make this event a huge success by creating campaigning video, putting in the pamphlets at the community events for awareness, registration process, forming the teams, arranging the snacks, and finalizing the prize distribution. We had over 70 badminton players rooting for the noble cause to support the visually challenged kids. This includes youth and adult players. Thank you to all the VT Seva Cary board of directors for the support, youth board members, youth volunteers, parents, and players to make this event successful. Prizes were distributed to the winners by Dr. Rukmini, Member of Vikasatarangini, India followed by other members.

On March 11, 2023, our youth volunteers went and participated in an event led by Durham Rescue Mission. During the event, VT Seva Cary Volunteers went to Men Campus and helped serve food and prepare lunch for those that were living there. We had 12 youth volunteers and 4 adult volunteers participate in this event. Some of the tasks Volunteers did included washing, drying, and organizing kitchen utensils and dishes, setting up the salad bar and the food for serving to the residents, cleaning the kitchen, and more. Durham Rescue Mission works to help the lives of families that are experiencing tremendous challenges. They provide housing, food, and basic necessities to restore peoples’ lives.

Cary volunteers have done a great job collecting and donating used eye glasses. A great initiative to recycle eye glasses for a good cause. Thank you to all the adult and youth volunteers who coordinated the pickup and drop-off of the eye glasses. All the collected eye glasses are donated to the Lion’s club. We had our youth volunteers that participated in this event.

On March 5th 2023, at the local Triangle area Aata event our VT Seva Cary Volunteers have done a great job in marketing for the Badminton Tournament event that happened on March 11th 2023. The volunteers have distributed the flyers to the event attendees and encouraged them to participate in the event to support the visually challenged students.

Commendable work by our VT Seva volunteers at SV Temple for Shivarathri Celeberations. Our youth volunteers were actively involved in making the event successful by putting in number of hours volunteering at the event. Over 13 Youth participated in this community service with over 40 volunteer hours. Activities performed by the volunteers are: Helping with crowd management by sending them in an order. Helping in kitchen for prasadham making Pack prasadham packets in the kitchen. Distribute prasadham packets.

Valentine Cards for Senior Citizens Our VT Seva Cary youth volunteers brought smiles to the Seniors by creating beautiful valentine cards, paper decorations and drawings to local nursing facilities for over 500 seniors. Everyone loves to receive positive messages, empathy to brighten up their day and it brings more positive vibes to the elderly by reading the wonderful message, cards created by our youth volunteers during the month of Valentines. It clearly showed the empathy, kindness and care expressed by our amazing volunteers. The cards were sent to Seniors at Meals On Wheels for the centers in Raleigh and Durham Centers for the Valentines day February 14th 2023. Over 27 volunteers spent 220 hours creating the Valentine cards. The event was a huge success by showing the seniors that there’s always someone thinking of you and showing them that they are loved this Valentines day!

VT Seva youth volunteers came forward to serve the community by helping in the Sai Mandhir kitchen. There were 8 Volunteers who spent 24 hours for the service. The volunteers were involved in the activities such as: Packed the food into smaller take-out prasadham packets. Distributed the prasadham packets. Clean up the kitchen after packing.

Durham Rescue Mission is a home for hundreds of homeless men, women and children. Our 21 VT Seva Cary volunteers both youth and adult volunteers worked together spending 64 hours in helping serve lunch to homeless at the Durham Rescue Mission. Thank you to all our volunteers who has taken time to help serve meals to the hungry.

Our incredible VT Seva volunteers were actively involved in making the event successful by putting in number of hours volunteering at the event. Over 40 Youth volunteers and 20 adult volunteers participated in this community service with over 300 volunteer hours. Activities performed by the volunteers are: Making sure the guests are not disruptive during the event by holding signs during the event. Pack prasadham packets in the kitchen. Distribute prasadam packets. Clean up the kitchen and event hall after the event.

Exceptional work by VT Seva Cary Youth volunteers for a great cause creating uniquely designed and thoughtfully messaged greeting cards with Be Strong message to the Bone Marrow patients. We have 23 VT Seva Cary volunteers that spent 125 hours to create the beautiful cards. The cards were given to the Army of Sunshine Organization on Jan 7th 2023, which helps to deliver the greeting cards to the Bone Marrow patients all over USA creating brighter, happier moments to the patients.

As most of you are aware, On 16th September 2022, VT Seva Cary celebrated the '2021 PVSA Awards Ceremony' at the Morrisville Police department (MPD). Our youth volunteers of VT SEVA were recognized and awarded US President's medals for their community service for 2021. Morrisville police department staff/officers honored youth volunteers by presenting US Presidential medals and Morrisville town challenge coins to them and encouraged them with their words to do much more community service in the future. As a small gesture, VT Seva team provided dinner to Morrisville police department staff/officers. Congratulations to medal winners and a big thank you to Morrisville Police department officers for their support. Our Bronze winners.... Akshita Jain, Nithya Janapati, Jhansi Boppana Silver winners.... Dhriti Koneru, Thanuj Desu, Rohitha Sanka, Sowndarya. Gold winners... Anirudh Janapati, Anish Voota, Aneesh Yarlagadda, Ishani Dasyam, Mansavi Gudibandi, Ashrith Desu, Neeraja Boppana, Parnika Dandepally, Saran Chittela, Siddarth Malireddi, Srinivas Tirunagari, Sribhaavita Nekkalapudi