Partnership with Sevalaya
Project Profile
Sevalaya (www.sevalaya.org) is a registered Charitable Trust with its service centre functioning at Kasuv Village near Thiruninravur (42 Kms west of Chennai, Tamilnadu.) The activities of Sevalaya include Swami Vivekananda Boys’ Home and Mother Teresa Girls’ Home for the orphan, poor and destitute children (both boys and girls) (at present sheltering 160 children) Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School- Govt recognized unaided Tamil Medium School- providing quality education absolutely free of cost to 1000 village children (including the inmates of the Home) from poor families; Mahatma Gandhi Medical Centre; Swami Vivekananda Library with an impressive collection of over 15000 books; Kasthurba Craft Centre providing free training in Tailoring to the poor village women; Vinobhaji Goshala sheltering milk yielding as well as dry cows and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Old Age Home sheltering 60 destitute senior citizens.
All the services are rendered absolutely free of cost to all poor, destitute and needy persons without any discrimination on the basis of caste, colour, religion, language, gender, nationality etc.
For further details visit www.sevalaya.org or contact Sevalaya at sevalaya@vsnl.com / sevalaya2@gmail.com / sevalayamurali@gmail.com
If you are interested in contacting a third-party reference who has volunteered at Sevalaya, email Heike Einhorn at h.einhorn<AT>gmx.ch.
Partnership History
Sevalaya has been an Omprakash Partner since June, 2009.
Need for Volunteers
Sevalaya welcomes volunteers to stay in our campus and offer their services in the following areas:
-Teaching English/Maths/Crafts/Art to our children
-Automation of systems in office/school/library etc
-Coaching sports activities to our children
-Training in traditional music and dance to our children
Need for Material Resources
We give below a list of Donation Options through which interested donors can support us. The amounts are in US Dollars assuming the Exchange Rate as INR 50 for 1 US
Sponsor a Child’s Education for a year $120
Sponsor a Grandma/Grandpa for a year $120
Sponsor a dry cow for a year $120
Sponsor a Medical Camp $40
Sponsor the cost of workshop/training for staff for a year $40
Sponsor the monthly salary of 1 staff $100
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Further Information
Sevalaya has created a transformation in the past 21 years in Kasuva Village where it is located through Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School. The villages where 21 years ago, children worked as daily wage labourers in brick kilns can now boast of 10 of them now pursuing their higher education in Engineering Colleges. More than 100 of them have gone on to various other colleges for Higher Studies. But for the free education provided by Sevalaya’s Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School these children would have been school drop outs.
The school has secured 100% pass results in the X Std Board examinations for 5 consecutive years- 2002-2003 to 2006-2007 the only school in the district to achieve this distinction. The school has secured 100% pass results in Agriculture stream for three consecutive years from 2004-2005 in the XII Std Board examinations. The overall pass percentage in 2007-2008 is 98%. And in 2008-2009 all the 93 students who appeared for XII Std Examinations (School Final) were successful.
The results assume more significance in the light of the background of
these students. They are from poor families, broken or shattered homes. They are the first generation school goers.
TCS – Education World Awards Committee 2006 has declared Sevalaya the Best School for Innovation in Teaching among 25000 schools from all over India.
Sevalaya is able to carry on its mission of providing better opportunities to the underprivileged children, only with the support of and donations from the philanthropic public/service clubs/corporates. Sevalaya does not receive any Government grant.
Sevalaya’s Role in Rural Development:
Medical Camps
Sevalaya conducts regular medical camps for the benefit of the villagers. With a view to promoting Indian Medicine system, Siddha medical camp is conducted quarterly with the support of Kilpauk Sai Seva Samithi and doctors from Arignar Anna Siddha Medical College. Other special camps like eye, dental, camps and general medical camps are also conducted regularly for the residents as well as the villagers.
Craft Education:
Craft education is a part of the curriculum in Sevalaya school where the children learn tailoring, wire bag making, screen printing, book binding etc. The craft centre also conducts 6 months free certificate training course I tailoring for the village women. Sevalaya also organized a free Advanced Course in Tailoring in collaboration with NABARD. Many village women who were benefited by this course have started their own tailoring units.
Computer Education:
Computer education is a part of the syllabus in Sevalaya from class III onwards. In addition, Sevalaya also conducts a free one month computer course in summer for the village youth where they are trained in MS Office.
Value education:
In addition to the syllabus prescribed by the Government , Sevalaya has framed its own syllabus known as BGV – Bharathi, Gandhi, & Vivekananda – where the students are taught in a phased manner about the lives and works of these 3 great men. In addition Sevalaya also conducts statewide examinations on the lives and works of Bharathi, Gandhi and Vivekananda for all the school children with a view to spreading their message among the youth of this country for a better future.
Recently Sevalaya has extended this Programme for the inmates of Prisons in Tamilnadu. A 30 week course is designed for the inmates of all Prisons in Tamilnadu, with a view to expose them to new and positive thoughts which will help them to adapt a reformed way of living and join the mainstream when they enter the free world.