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SAHASI SAMARTH SEVA TRUST
Our tribes are rich in culture, educating them advances towards prosperity!
Place: A Remote Tribal Village around Palamaner, 6th November 2022
Our country’s tribe population is about 8.7% spread out primarily in forests and hilly regions. The tribal community are accustomed in their own way of living facing daily challenges even to survive. They are mal-nutritioned, illiterate, unemployed, they become bounded laborer’s to money-lenders because they cannot pay back their debts. They remain isolated from the outside world and remain backward in the society.
Since, tribe parents are illiterate from generation to generation, they do not know the value of education and show least interest in their children’s education. Instead, they are sent into forest for hunting, collecting firewood, gazing cattle, farming and cultivating in their small available land, stone quarrying, girls and females are engaged in home-based handicraft work by processing forest products. They remain unaware and untouched about the growing technology.
Further, their social life remains very backward within their tribal communities, young girls are forced into child marriage before they attain maturity. Parents think girls must take care of household work they do not need education at all. Even boys are sent to work to earn money for their families, education has never been important to them.
Our volunteers with our founder are being visiting people living in tribal remote areas in the forests to motivate them, giving them awareness about educating their children, so they can also have a
better standard of living.
Everything that is addictive is harmful!
Place: Bangalore, 10th October 2022
Any form of our behavioral patterns in the longer run will eventually become an addiction, if any addiction that causes harm to our physical, mental and emotional health, it’s called a self-abuse. Children, young boys and girls, adult men and women may get addicted to phones, gambling, watching porn, consuming toxic substances such as alcohol, drugs, marijuana etc., or even getting obsessed with food, or becoming workaholic will have a negative effect and lead to health issues.
Negative addictions like these may give a temporary pleasure but will permanently damage a person’s health and will ruin their personal and professional relationship in the society. As a result, their children and family members may suffer an endless agony throughout their lifetime, leaving them in a state of extreme poverty and misery.
A person in addiction needs right treatment before that could be life-threatening. ‘Sahasi Samarth Seva Trust’ works for the welfare of these people by providing awareness, counselling and medications, as well as admitting the severely addicted to rehabilitation centers for proper treatment.
Our volunteer members are visiting families where the male members of the family have become addicted to alcohol, tobacco, with other substance abuse and have consequently died. The family
members are left in desperate and terrible conditions without any financial support. We ask people to come forward to uplift the lives of such downtrodden people. (Ulsoor).
Positivity within us heals everything that lacks!
Place: Kurnool, 15rd September 2022
Health is interrelated with the well-being of a human being. It involves various aspects how one maintains their physical, mental, emotional harmony with the external environment. Right awareness, positive approach with oneself and outside one’s physical body keeps a human being in a healthy condition. Learning, working, evolving to live a sustainable higher life is a continuous process of a human life. Confidence and faith in oneself make everything possible in a human life when approached by the internally and externally challenges in the existence.
Every one naturally lacks something or the other in the society, being humane we need to support one and other in the short comes instead of out-casting the people, especially those who are severely infected and affected physically, mentally and emotionally. Stigmatizing the condition of the affected person in any kind of shortfall is not a solution to the problem, the person has to be treated with unconditional love and care and should be given necessary concern and treatment to prevent the person going through the agony any further. Let’s be generous and treat one
another with value and respect.
‘Sahasi Samarth Seva Trust’, understanding the need of supporting such affected people with stigmatised diseases such as leprosy, AIDS/HIV and other chronical illness is working towards their livelihood and welfare. We urge generous hearts in the society to think about suffering people, decide to come forward to support them in the ways that could improve their underprivileged and suffering conditions.
Our volunteer staffs with Mrs. Leona (National Joint Secretary) visited and counselling to such affected sick people, provided snacks and fruits to 55 patients at a village around Kurnool, AP.
“Leprosy work is not merely medical relief,
it is transforming frustration of life into joy of dedication,
personal ambition into selfless service…”
Mahatma Gandhi
Spirituality to alleviate Poverty!
Place: Frazer Town, 3rd September 2022
The concept of duality exists in everything naturally. Our country is the land of spirituality with its own rich values woven together with many religions and cultures harmoniously. Many of us would have pondered about the relationship between spirituality and human existence across various spheres of human life. The question is that how does a religion and culture as a whole uplift the life of a human being as an individual and as a person within the society he lives in.
What kind of values and ethics are fed into the minds and hearts of human being through spirituality?
When we visit any worship places irrespective of any religion, we see poverty and misery of people at the entrance of any temples, mosques, churches, shrines, gurudwaras etc. we see
people in unclean rags, starving, sick, physically challenged, mentally retarded, some weeping in pain and agony, on the other side we see people rich and wealthy wearing fine clothing and
ornaments who seem to be happy. We see wealthy people offering food, clothing, money to the poor. Charity begins at any worship places; spirituality has always preached and taught love, care and service to the needy as compulsory across any religion on earth.
Every human being must be aware that any religion is to transcend the human life towards the growth and enlightenment with virtue. Human life must always keep growing and flowering physically, mentally, emotionally with financial stability to enjoy life to the fullest during the existence.
When spiritual values and ethics alleviates an individual’s poverty and uplifts life, it becomes a religion, that is to live and grow in a religious life. Our mission is to raise such awareness among the people and we as a Charitable Trust donate food and clothing to the impoverished and marginalized people during festivals at worship places regardless of any religion. (Our Founder Mr. Sam Koteswar was honored for offering food to people for 10 days from 29th Aug to 9th Sep 2022 during a festival eve at Bangalore).
Take Care of Elders!
Place: Hyderabad, 27th August 2022
Elderly persons go through a lot of changes physically, mentally and psychologically. Their dependency on their children or other family member becomes a major concern which leads them to get into loneliness, unsecured state of depression, uselessness and other problems. As they get older their health conditions deteriorate and most of them are not cared but neglected in their families especially who live in poverty and this problem exists even in the middle-class families.
Nuclear family structure has damaged the Joint family structure leaving the elderly people helpless, they cannot depend on their children for financial support for their daily needs. Hence, they try to live by earning small wages being employed as a security, gate-keepers, or by selling small items on road sides, or sometimes they beg for food and money to take care of themselves.
Our Trust volunteers and members invest their time in meeting such elderly people both men and women talking to them, giving them care and concern also providing them food and clothing. Upon enquiring and finding, if the elderly person is found to be abandoned, our volunteers organize to admit them in an old aged home in the nearby vicinity. We encourage and motivate the younger generation to show respect, concern and care, also to provide basic daily needs to the elderly people in the surrounding environment.
Child Marriage is a Crime!
Place: Frazer Town – Bengaluru, 7th August 2022
Although child marriage has declined modestly over the last 20 years, there are still a significant number of young girls in the rural villages and remote urban slums who are still married before they attain the maturity age of 18 years. There are several reasons that influences parents such as, extreme poverty, societal causes, lack of awareness and educational backwardness and so on, endless are the reasons that is enforced upon getting their innocent daughters married at their early age.
Parents think that once they get their daughter married to a man, they are relieved from their responsibility towards them. The man whom they get married to may be a drunkard and jobless. Apparently, the young girls suffer and may become a widow at a very young age. Consequence is that their life is ruined completely.
On the other hand, it also happens that young girls get influenced by cinematic romance, peer pressure, out of emotional infatuations they get trapped in union with men at a very early age that leads to many tragical outcomes and leaves behind young girls and boys in a severe depression and anxiety for a very long time of their lives. Social media and other entertainment media attract the adolescent minds of boys and girls to get married at early age, further such young girls get into an abusive, tortured and exploitative relationships.
‘Sahasi Samarth Seva trust’ involves in promoting awareness to young girls and boys in several educational institutions and also creates awareness among the parents, especially in the rural
and tribal villages to change their views about their daughters in order to provide them education and a healthy sustainable future.
Poverty Fringes in Urban Cities!
Place: Slums of Rajendra Nagar – Bengaluru, 20th July 2022
Over 20% of Bengaluru city is populated with downtrodden communities who reside in the slums legally and illegally. The poor lives from generation to generation without any upliftment in their lives. After the pandemic, new crowd of migrant workers from Bihar, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and other states of India are flowing back into the city in search of work in the construction field as masons, painters, plumbers, welders etc. also in building roads,
metro, sewage etc.; as drivers and cleaner in transportation sectors, also as unskilled and skilled Laboure’s such as electricians, mechanics etc. in manufacturing industries.
Due to their low wages, these people live in ruined rented cement huts, they do not have a regular job and cannot afford to support their families with good shelter and healthy food. Their children lack basic education. Therefore, they remain poor for generations without education to progress.
We have visited and analysed those disadvantaged communities in order to help them by providing education and vocational training courses to their children and women by helping them to have their own small selling works such as petty shops, selling coffee and tea, tailoring etc.
Unwanted at Home!
Place: Hoskote, 8th July 2022
During monsoons, in many places, we find elderly people struggling in small tarpaulin huts on the roadsides, crowded markets, railway stations etc. Rain water seeps into their tiny huts leaving them trapped and struggling to even move. They starve without food for many days and shiver in severe cold without a proper blanket. They often suffer serious physical and mental pain due to many medical ailments.
In their early adulthood, these people may have lived a happy and comfortable life. However, they have been neglected and abandoned to suffer on roads by their own children and family members during their old age. Most of us pass over people like these every day. We might have ignored and overlooked their suffering and walked away. However, it is our responsibility to help these people by being compassionate and humane whenever we have time.
As ‘Sahasi Samarth Seva Trust’, we are willing to work in supporting these deprived people on your behalf. Hence, we urge people to come forward to financially support us to serve these abandoned and homeless elderly people. We will work towards the welfare of the society by utilising your donations and we assure to notify regarding our works responsibly.
Please come forward to support the needy!
Value of a Domestic Helper!
Place: Palamaner, 21th June 2022
Most of us know that there is nothing messier than a day when the maid at our house or office does not show up to work or goes on leave. It becomes almost impossible to keep houses or offices clean and tidy without a domestic worker. According to the survey, it is said that the domestic workers (who work as maids, cooks, caretakers, babysitters, kitchen girls, watchmen etc.) become the third largest informal sector having 3.5 to 4 crore people in the country consisting
of 80% female domestic workers is not a shock as its seen by us in the society.
Due to their severe poverty, family issues, famine in their villages, male unemployment, lack of access to education, issues with alcoholic husbands, many vulnerable single mothers, widows, or those separated from their husbands, to take care of their children and due to several socioeconomic reasons are compelled migrating to urban cities or rural towns for domestic work and work under wealthy households for their livelihood. Many Women and young girls from poor families and disadvantaged communities suffer hunger, without good clothing and a shelter to stay. After Covid, the situation has worsened and left such neglected communities with more difficulties.
Considering their importance in our daily lives that without them we cannot survive – who takes care of all-household works like cleaning, cooking, washing, etc. We as each individual must support, protect and provide them with basic needs and must also realise their value.
SPIRITUALITY EDUCATES!
Place: Bhopal, 8th April 2022
From birth to death, spirituality is intertwined with human existence. A divinity springs from a sacred place within his heart and he reflects it to the outside world. That reflection is manifested in different forms and it became a worship place such as temples, churches, mosques etc., as human civilization developed. From ancient times, temples have been the source of education, such as ashrams, gurukuls, and pathshalas. Traditionally, children were sent to these worship places to learn, gain knowledge and skills, to practice human values by serving teachers, elders and others in the society. In these modern times, we have schools to educate kids.
My experience visiting many religious places as a pilgrim has made me reflect on the connection between our education system and the lives of common men. I could witness innocent children waiting almost every day for pilgrims to come with offerings to the temples. As pilgrims offer coconuts, flowers, fruits, agarbattis, etc., children rush to collect the broken coconut pieces and put them into gunny bags. Upon inquiring, these children were sent by elders in the family to collect broken coconut pieces that they could sell for money. Even to this day, all places of worship, regardless of any religion still contribute to the well-being of the poor and rich by building human values.But, sending children to temples during school hours due to their poverty is unfortunate.
Therefore, I request individuals, social workers, volunteers and charitable organisations to join me by paying attention to this subtlety by educating parents about the importance of sending their children to school. And parents must be motivated to earn their decent financial needs by providing them with necessary means of life skills that enables them to earn their own living.
A CHILD TODAY IS TOMORROW’S FUTURE!
Place: Bhopal, 5th April 2022
Every day or the other we come across a child selling pens, snacks, water bottles, roses, toys, etc., we might have bought one or rejected them in the manner of our mood swings when they approach us. Hundreds and thousands of such children are sent out on roads to sell such petty things by their parents, relatives, or by those persons under whose custody they live. Every child is precious and their lives are precious. When the future of such children is a question. What will be our country’s future? As a child, today is tomorrow’s future. It is estimated that 18 million children are on the streets selling things to support their families, some are involved in forced labor and older children are trafficked into prostitution and illegal activities.
We cannot imagine the cruelty these children face every day in their life. If these children are given protection and education, they might turn out to be IAS, IPS, doctors, nurses, engineers, social workers, and so on and serve the communities in the future. And that will in-turn give rise to the economic and social development of our nation.
The team of ‘Sahasi Samarth Seva Trust’, works with our founder Mr. Sam Koteswar, by getting into the field directly, meeting the children’s parents to understand the actual challenges faced by them in day-to-day life. The parents are motivated to educate their children by sending them to school. Our trust provides all educational support such as school and examination fees, uniforms, stationery, and monthly bus fares to such children by identifying the real need in their families. Our objective is to eradicate the financial crisis faced by under privileged and deprived communities and provide teenage boys and girls, children with the necessary education, and empower them with vocational life skill training programs and courses. We as a Voluntary Trust have the mission to work for such vulnerable communities where children, youths, adult men and women suffer the cruelty of poverty. We ask for your financial support to transform the lives of such under privileged and deprived people.
FEED THE ELDER!
Place: Pune, 1st April 2022
Whenever, we step out of our home or office we certainly come across an old man or an old woman begging for money or food in front of our house or sitting on some corner of the road, on the pavements of parks, in some bus stands, railways stations, worship places across the city, town or a village of our country. These people are abandoned by their own children, family members, and relatives. They have no place to go and live on streets and footpaths under the trees. Many such elderly people due to their ageing cannot walk or sit sometimes, they suffer several physical health issues, due to loneliness their mental and emotional condition worsens. They cannot eat and sleep properly and they die out of starvation and pain.
Although several volunteers and organisations come forward in serving and feeding these feeble people, we still find hundreds of such old aged destitute starving every day. We at ‘Sahasi Samarth Seva Trust’ upon identifying such people who suffer hunger are fed and are also provided with medical help for their ailments.
Our team finds happiness by serving elderly people and satisfying their basic needs of food and medicine. Every one of us must realise that there is a need to serve humanity in the slightest possible way.