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Coimbatore
Seva Bharathi lends a helping hand to the needy
May 14, 2016
Earlier this year, NGO Seva Bharathi joined hands with Coimbatore-based KG Hospital and organized a blood donation camp to create awareness about blood donation. The NGO also created a database of potential blood donors.
The camp turned out to be successful as more than 60 donors came forward to donate blood. “Health is one of the aspects we are working for. Educating the children who cannot afford it, and lending a helping hand to the underprivileged women are our other areas of interest,” A. Balasubramaniam, Vice President of Seva Bharathi’s Coimbatore chapter, says.
The Coimbatore chapter of Seva Bharathi runs an orphanage home for boys abandoned by their families. Several orphaned boys are also inmates of the home. Currently, the home has more than 60 inmates. All the boys are sent to government-run schools. The oldest boy in this home is currently doing his diploma course.
The NGO also works towards empowering women. The vice president shares with us that the Coimbatore chapter of the NGO was launched about a decade age. Since then, volunteers of the NGO have worked towards providing vocational training to members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in various streams. “So far, we have successfully trained more than a thousand women in multiple streams. We have also assisted them in availing loans from banks and other lending institutions. In this way several women have become independent too,” Balasubramaniam says.
Apart from working in areas like education, women empowerment, and supporting orphaned children, Seva Bharathi lends a helping hand during natural calamities too. We are told that during the Chennai floods, the NGO organized medical camps in several flood-hit regions across the state. With the help of volunteers, about 12,00,000 packets of food were distributed to the victims. Seva Bharati volunteers also assisted the Indian Army in rescue operations.
Seva Bharati came into being in 1978. Across the nation, the NGO works in the areas like education, health, social welfare, self employment, and disaster management.
