At the dawn of the year 2019, Sewa International wishes a joyous and prosperous year ahead to all our generous donors, dedicated team members, volunteers and, lastly but most importantly our beneficiaries who enrich our lives by giving us a chance to serve and nurture. As you are a part of the Sewa family, we hope that our bond deepens as we achieve our goal of making and nurturing a better society around us. Sewa is moving to new paths in aligning itself with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Here is a brief overview of our month-long activities across our various projects running throughout the country.

In a heartwarming story from Uttarakhand about a little girl, Nandini from Chauriya village (Rudraprayag), who while playing got injured, bruised her arm and was bleeding profusely. The distance between her village and the nearest health center was 60 km. But due to the presence of Sewa Arogyam, our mobile health vehicle in the area, the girl was rushed for treatment and was immediately treated by the health workers. It is seen many times that in the absence of first aid treatment many patients lose their lives or suffer from excessive bleeding. It is with this vision of providing immediate help and treatment to casualties and patients in areas that are remote and difficult to reach, Sewa Aarogyam was launched to cover 250 villages over a month.

Additionally, the camp at Chauriya, resulted in treatment to 60 more patients in the village. We hope that we are able to serve more and more people in the region and no one has to suffer due to the lack of medical care.

Reinventing Education In Kashi Tuition Centres

At our tuition centers in Kashi and Chunar areas of UP, we are trying to implement modern means of education and learning by involving the children with e-learning and audio-visual lesson videos. It has been seen that by teaching children through these methods, their interest level and reception to new information is heightened and they show more involvement in the lesson. We try to use regional languages in addition to English, so that the children feel comfortable and are able to comprehend the subject better. Afterward, the children are asked to carry an activity based homework or a peer interaction about the topic for their better retention and understanding.

I am Rubi Pandey,12, a class 5th student from Prathmic Vidyalaya, Village Bhitti, Ramnagar(UP). My father is an auto driver and my mother is a homemaker. I have two sisters and three brothers. My hobby is drawing and I want to be a teacher when I grow up. I am a student of Sewa Kashi Bhitti learning center and have been studying here since last 3 years. I like how subjects are taught here and then tested after every month so that Sewa can monitor our progress regularly. I also learn a lot of new things like art and craft etc. I learn new habits from my teachers who are kind enough to teach us and answer all our doubts. I always secure the top rank in my class. This year we also got a school kit from Sewa International, which consisted of notebooks, drawing copy, color box, and pencil box. We have also started getting fruits and milk products as part of the nutrition programme started at the learning center. I want to thank Sewa for their help.

Reaching out to students in the terrorist affected area of Rajouri in J&K, SewaInternational with contribution from SISGO held a school kit distribution drive in Swami Parmanand Bhartiya Vidya Mandir school in Dhangri village. 107 school kits were distributed to students from Nursery up to Class 10th. These children mostly belong to the local community of farmers, laborers and cattle herders. Each school bag consisted of essential school supplies like notebooks, geometry box, colors etc. Students were very happy and thanked Sewa for this timely help.

• Access to Potable Water

Area of work: Agra, Uttar Pradesh

Children have a right to basic facilities such as toilets, safe drinking water, clean surroundings and basic information on hygiene. Water, sanitation and hygiene in schools create an enabling environment which secures children’s dignity, safety, health and attendance in classes.

From our need analysis data, we observed that more than 50% of the schools selected do not have access to water. Due to lack of water supply, existing toilets had become non-functional. We are providing fresh water connections in the following government schools in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.

1. Upper Primary School, Chalesar
2. Primary School Islamnagar
3. Primary School Tal, Firojkhan
4. BasicKanyaa School, Krashna colony
5. Primary School Khurad, Basai
6. Primary School Tal, Firojkhan.