Greetings from Sai Anugraha, A Family of Helping Hands & Praying Lips.
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands — one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Audrey Hepburn.
As Avatar Meher Baba said, “Real Happiness lies in making others Happy”. To experience that real happiness God has given us an opportunity to serve the needy in best possible way. As a Sai Anugraha family member, every one of us experiencing this happiness for the past 10 years. We would like to THANK YOU SO MUCH for tremendous support & overwhelming response towards all initiatives by volunteering, valuable contributions, spreading the word with your friends/family/colleagues about Sai Anugraha.
It's time now to read how we as a family made a difference to the society thru our spiritual and social service activities.
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Activities of Sai Anugraha Spiritual Trust
Sai Anugraha family members, as part of spiritual activities pray for "Samastha Loka Sukhino Bhavanthu" i.e. Welfare of the World. In the welfare of the world lies our welfare. As part of this, we conduct Sai Bhajans at devotees' houses, Home for Mentally challenged people, Home for Visually challenged people, Sai temples etc. Siddha Managala Stothram chanting sessions thru Skype & Sai Literature parayan & Rudrabhishekam.
1. Shri Sai Satcharitra & Shri Guru Charitra daily parayan.
2. Virtual Samuhik Parayan of Shri Sai Satcharitra on NewYear's day.
3. Sai Bhajan conducted at Selva Sai Temple, Shollingnallur on 1st Jan 2018.
4. Siddha Mangala Stothram Chanting sessions conducted on 6th Jan, 13th Jan, 20th Jan & 27th Jan thru Skype.
5. Sai Satsang conducted at MRK Kishore & Sridevi's residence, Manchester, CT on 27th Jan 2018 to spread the word and raise funds to support Shri Shirdi Sai Temple contsruction at Manchester, CT. Click here for more details.
6. Ekadasa Rudrabhishekam conducted for Samastha Loka Sukhnibhavantu i.e. Welfare of the word at Vizag. Click here to know more details.
7. 41 Saptaah Sai Satcharitra Parayan started on 4th Kan 2018 and is participated by Sai devotees all over the world.
41 Saptaah Sai Satcharitra Parayan 4th Jan 2018 to 17th Oct 2018
Celebrating 100 years of Shri Saibaba Maha Samadhi, we are organizing 41 weeks of Shri Sai Satcharitra parayan starting from 4th Jan 2018. 41st week of Parayan ends on 17th Oct 2018. We request all spiritual aspirants to be part of this and participate minimum 1 week of Parayan.
Please click below link for more details & registration.
Watch below video about 41 Saptaah Sai Satcharitra Parayan
Please join us in all spiritual activities thru SKYPE.
Skype Id: saianugrahafamily
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Activities of Sai Anugraha (Social Service Activities)
10th Sai Anugraha Day Celebrations
We celebrate our Family birthday every year on 1st January by sponsoring new clothes under Sai Aadhaar initiative & sponsoring lunch/dinner with cake cutting under Baba Prasadalay initiative at Oldage homes & Orphanages in different locations across India. We will raise funds towards Sai Anugraha Day celebrations in the month of November & December once we identify the homes to conduct the program.
2018 Sai Anugraha Day is very special for all of us as it is Sai Anugraha's 10th Birthday and a proud moment for everyone of us. We celebrated 10th Sai Anugraha Day In 7 Orphanages in 6 locations in India and touched 276 hearts & distributed new clothes, made the residents to cut Sai Anugraha Day cake, sponsored lunch, chocolates, biscuits, fruit juices etc.
Please find below the details of the homes and the link to the Celebrations in the home.
1. Dr. S. Agnihotri Mukh Badir Niwasi Shala, Nagpur
Marking 10th Sai Anugraha Day, Sai Anugraha Nagpur family members organised Baba Prasadalay at Dr. S Agnihotri Mookh Badhir Niwasi Shala, Nagpur on 31st Dec 2017. This home consists of 50 children who are hearing impaired and cannot speak. Click below link to know more about the celebration.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1974511889258134
Please find below the details of the homes and the link to the Celebrations in the home.
1. Dr. S. Agnihotri Mukh Badir Niwasi Shala, Nagpur
Marking 10th Sai Anugraha Day, Sai Anugraha Nagpur family members organised Baba Prasadalay at Dr. S Agnihotri Mookh Badhir Niwasi Shala, Nagpur on 31st Dec 2017. This home consists of 50 children who are hearing impaired and cannot speak. Click below link to know more about the celebration.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1974511889258134
We would like to thank staff & students of the school, our family members Kavita, Gagan, Vivek, Avanthika, Mr.Kayande, Mrs Sampada, Manoj Dixit, Mr and Mrs Avantika Sharma, Master Ansh n Miss Anshika.
2. Manaspoorti Children Home, Kakinada
Manaspoorti Children Home at Kakinada is started by Shyam Jagadeesh and a home for 42 children. Special day celebrations started with 10th Sai Anugraha Day cake cutting, cake distribution followed by new clothes distribution to all the kids & memento distribution to all the volunteers. Kids were so excited to wear the new clothes selected by them and got ready for lunch. Our volunteers had nice time with the kids before we started serving lunch. Kids enjoyed Special meals and were excited to spend the special day with all Sai Anugraha Family members.
2. Manaspoorti Children Home, Kakinada
Manaspoorti Children Home at Kakinada is started by Shyam Jagadeesh and a home for 42 children. Special day celebrations started with 10th Sai Anugraha Day cake cutting, cake distribution followed by new clothes distribution to all the kids & memento distribution to all the volunteers. Kids were so excited to wear the new clothes selected by them and got ready for lunch. Our volunteers had nice time with the kids before we started serving lunch. Kids enjoyed Special meals and were excited to spend the special day with all Sai Anugraha Family members.
Click the link to watch photos and videos of the event.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1983651818344141
We are sure no one want to miss the Photoshoot of kids with new clothes sponsored by us. Click below link:
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1983984444977545.
Special thanks to Shyam Jagadeesh, Founder of Manaspoorti Children Home for giving us permission to celebrate our special day at home and love and blessings to Kids for cooperating us from starting to end of the program.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1983651818344141
We are sure no one want to miss the Photoshoot of kids with new clothes sponsored by us. Click below link:
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1983984444977545.
Special thanks to Shyam Jagadeesh, Founder of Manaspoorti Children Home for giving us permission to celebrate our special day at home and love and blessings to Kids for cooperating us from starting to end of the program.
Our heartfelt thanks to Trustee & Vizianagaram Incharge Murty Mokkarala, Srinivas Velpula, Manibala, Shravani & all other volunteers who made kids happy with their presence.
We are providing necessary support to this home for the past 3 years on regular basis. We started providing 25kg rice, 10 liter oil, 10kg Dal starting from January 2018.
3. Kakkum Karangal, Bangalore
We organized 10th Sai Anugraha Day at Siva Sakthi Kakkum, A Home for mentally Challenged people at Bangalore. This home is maintained by Siva Salthi Sathya Sai Charitable Trust, Chennai was established by Vijayakumari.C.C, who is a Montessori Teacher and a Diploma holder in Mental Retardation from NIMH, Secunderabad.
We are providing necessary support to this home for the past 3 years on regular basis. We started providing 25kg rice, 10 liter oil, 10kg Dal starting from January 2018.
3. Kakkum Karangal, Bangalore
We organized 10th Sai Anugraha Day at Siva Sakthi Kakkum, A Home for mentally Challenged people at Bangalore. This home is maintained by Siva Salthi Sathya Sai Charitable Trust, Chennai was established by Vijayakumari.C.C, who is a Montessori Teacher and a Diploma holder in Mental Retardation from NIMH, Secunderabad.
Click below link to know more details of the program.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/2006647099377946
We sincerely thank Soumya for identifying the home and taking care of entire event from purchase to closing with the support of the staff of the home.
4. Maruthi Home, Hyderabad
Sai Anugraha Day is always a special day and a proud moment for every one of us. It is the time to spread our joy. Our Hyderabad family members identified Maruthi Orphanage for Girls to celebrate 10th Sai Anugraha Day on 1st Jan 2018. Maruthi Orphanage is a Home for 70 Orphan girls who are multi talented. We are providing support to the home whenever needed.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/2006647099377946
We sincerely thank Soumya for identifying the home and taking care of entire event from purchase to closing with the support of the staff of the home.
4. Maruthi Home, Hyderabad
Sai Anugraha Day is always a special day and a proud moment for every one of us. It is the time to spread our joy. Our Hyderabad family members identified Maruthi Orphanage for Girls to celebrate 10th Sai Anugraha Day on 1st Jan 2018. Maruthi Orphanage is a Home for 70 Orphan girls who are multi talented. We are providing support to the home whenever needed.
Click below links to watch videos and photos of the celebrations.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1998532873522702
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1998512046858118
We would like to appreciate and thank the staff & Children of the home for giving us an opportunity to celebrate 10th Sai Anugraha Day at their Home.
We thank our chief guests Dr. Manish Gaur, Jayaraj garu, Sai Anugraha Hyderabad family members Muppirisetti Durga Prasad, Madhuri Gk, Sudheer Kumar Sunkavilli, Sindhura, Radhika Chaluvadi, Vasu Chaluvadi, Anitha & residents of Sai Nethra, Cognizant Hyderabad Outreach volunteers & all others for their time & presence in making kids happy.
5. Help & Help Educational Society for the blind, Vizag
Our Vizag family members celebrated 10th Sai Anugraha Day at Help & Help Education Society for the blind on 1st Jan 2018. This home is started to provide shelter to visually challenged persons. We are regulalrly visiting the home as part of Baba Prasadalay monthly visits. We recently sponsored Ramu a resident of the home for Secondary Grade Teacher Training at Aditya College Kakinada.
Click below link for Sai Anugraha Day celebrations.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1976629579046365
We would like to thank staff & residents of the home, our family members Parvateesam Behara & his family members, Giribabu, Prasanth, Gopi, Ravikanth Adivi & family & all others who participated to make the event a grand success.
6. Saibaba Gurukulam, Chennai
Sai Baba Gurukulam runs an orphanage home for the socially and economically destitute children. Our Chennai family members celebrated 10th Sai Anugraha Day on 1st Jan 2018 at this Orphanage home with cake cutting, sponsoring break fast and new clothes distribution.
Click below link to read complete details of the program:
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1977187985657191
Special thanks to Srinivasan sir, staff & kids of Saibaba Gurukulam, Sankara for his valuable time and encouraging kids with his motivational speech, Sagar, Sowbarneega Annamalai, Sai Darshana, Vasukhi Annamalai ji, Sindhuja Thiyagarajan, Hari, Swetha, Kumar Mani Mariyappan, Rajesh Ravichandran, Kumari Sudhakar & all other Sai Anugraha Family members for spending time on New Year day in making kids happy.
7. Sadashraya Home, Bangalore
Sai Anugraha Bengaluru family members were blessed to celebrate 10th Sai Anugraha Day at Sadashraya Charitable Trust on 7th Jan 2018. This home started in the year 2004 is a home for The children from poor background. All children are quick enough to absorb and learn healthy habits like cleanliness, politeness, good & pleasant manners, respect for teachers, elders and worship cultural values.
Click below link for the videos and photos of the celebrations.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1984264291616227
Our sincere thanks to chief guest Shri. Raghavendra sir, Finance Controller, MicroFocus, Bengaluru for interacting with the volunteers and residents of the home. Special thanks to Organizers & children of the home, Manju, Chandu, Megha, Girish, Madivalappa, vasanth and all others for making kids happy with your presence.
Any successful event needs a team work & is visible in every moment. Organizing an event of this kind & making it a grand success right from identifying the homes, raising the funds, purchasing clothes, coordinating with volunteers & homes by spending a personal time wouldn’t have been possible without the excellent support & encouragement from everyone of you.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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Baba Prasadalay
1. Sponsored 25kg rice of worth ₹1060/- to residents of OM Mandir Orphanage, Vizianagaram.
2. Sponsored 25kg Rice, 12Kg Dal, 10 ltr Oil of worth ₹3,000/- to residents of Manaspoorthi Home, Kakinada.
3. Sponsored Midday meals of worth ₹2,600/- to 3 beneficiaries at Kanchipalli, A.P.
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Books Or Bricks
1. Sponsored 8th Class School Fee (Monthly) of ₹640/- for Joshua .
2. Sponsored 9th Class School fee (Monthly) of ₹660/- for Joel.
3. Sponsored 9th Class School Fee (Monthly) of ₹1,200/- for Deekshita.
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Livabale Planet earth
Today’s Children are Tomorrow’s Global Citizens & it is responsibility of every one to educate them about the need of Sapling plantation, create awareness on Go Green concepts, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, India & Varied heritage, Science & Technology development in India, India & Space programs and encourage them to participate in the competitions we conduct. This is what we do as part of Livable Planet earth initiative.
Marking centenary celebrations of Shri Saibaba Maha Samadhi, we are conducting Livable Planet earth in 100 Government Schools in 2018. We will be conducting sports & games competitions in the schools if we already completed Essay Writing, Drawing competitions etc. We are going to plant 2 Saplings (Shraddha & Saburi) and going to present certificates to all participants and prizes to the winners.
We need everyone's support to identify Government schools in your area to conduct the competitions.
SMS Sanskrit High, Kovvur
We conducted this initiative at our adopted School - SMS Sanskrit School, Kovvur and organised games/sports as part of Republic Day Celebrations in 2018 as we already conducted Essay Writing & other competitions as part of Independence Day celebrations in 2017. Shri G.B.V. Subramanyam, Head of the School with the support from the school staff conducted Kabaddi, Kho Kho, Volleyball, Running & Skipping to all the students on 24th & 25th Jan 2018. We distributed prizes to the winners, chocolates, biscuits to all the students and also planted 2 saplings.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1998532873522702
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1998512046858118
We would like to appreciate and thank the staff & Children of the home for giving us an opportunity to celebrate 10th Sai Anugraha Day at their Home.
We thank our chief guests Dr. Manish Gaur, Jayaraj garu, Sai Anugraha Hyderabad family members Muppirisetti Durga Prasad, Madhuri Gk, Sudheer Kumar Sunkavilli, Sindhura, Radhika Chaluvadi, Vasu Chaluvadi, Anitha & residents of Sai Nethra, Cognizant Hyderabad Outreach volunteers & all others for their time & presence in making kids happy.
5. Help & Help Educational Society for the blind, Vizag
Our Vizag family members celebrated 10th Sai Anugraha Day at Help & Help Education Society for the blind on 1st Jan 2018. This home is started to provide shelter to visually challenged persons. We are regulalrly visiting the home as part of Baba Prasadalay monthly visits. We recently sponsored Ramu a resident of the home for Secondary Grade Teacher Training at Aditya College Kakinada.
Click below link for Sai Anugraha Day celebrations.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1976629579046365
We would like to thank staff & residents of the home, our family members Parvateesam Behara & his family members, Giribabu, Prasanth, Gopi, Ravikanth Adivi & family & all others who participated to make the event a grand success.
6. Saibaba Gurukulam, Chennai
Sai Baba Gurukulam runs an orphanage home for the socially and economically destitute children. Our Chennai family members celebrated 10th Sai Anugraha Day on 1st Jan 2018 at this Orphanage home with cake cutting, sponsoring break fast and new clothes distribution.
Click below link to read complete details of the program:
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1977187985657191
Special thanks to Srinivasan sir, staff & kids of Saibaba Gurukulam, Sankara for his valuable time and encouraging kids with his motivational speech, Sagar, Sowbarneega Annamalai, Sai Darshana, Vasukhi Annamalai ji, Sindhuja Thiyagarajan, Hari, Swetha, Kumar Mani Mariyappan, Rajesh Ravichandran, Kumari Sudhakar & all other Sai Anugraha Family members for spending time on New Year day in making kids happy.
7. Sadashraya Home, Bangalore
Sai Anugraha Bengaluru family members were blessed to celebrate 10th Sai Anugraha Day at Sadashraya Charitable Trust on 7th Jan 2018. This home started in the year 2004 is a home for The children from poor background. All children are quick enough to absorb and learn healthy habits like cleanliness, politeness, good & pleasant manners, respect for teachers, elders and worship cultural values.
Click below link for the videos and photos of the celebrations.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1984264291616227
Our sincere thanks to chief guest Shri. Raghavendra sir, Finance Controller, MicroFocus, Bengaluru for interacting with the volunteers and residents of the home. Special thanks to Organizers & children of the home, Manju, Chandu, Megha, Girish, Madivalappa, vasanth and all others for making kids happy with your presence.
Any successful event needs a team work & is visible in every moment. Organizing an event of this kind & making it a grand success right from identifying the homes, raising the funds, purchasing clothes, coordinating with volunteers & homes by spending a personal time wouldn’t have been possible without the excellent support & encouragement from everyone of you.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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Baba Prasadalay
1. Sponsored 25kg rice of worth ₹1060/- to residents of OM Mandir Orphanage, Vizianagaram.
2. Sponsored 25kg Rice, 12Kg Dal, 10 ltr Oil of worth ₹3,000/- to residents of Manaspoorthi Home, Kakinada.
3. Sponsored Midday meals of worth ₹2,600/- to 3 beneficiaries at Kanchipalli, A.P.
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Books Or Bricks
1. Sponsored 8th Class School Fee (Monthly) of ₹640/- for Joshua .
2. Sponsored 9th Class School fee (Monthly) of ₹660/- for Joel.
3. Sponsored 9th Class School Fee (Monthly) of ₹1,200/- for Deekshita.
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Livabale Planet earth
Today’s Children are Tomorrow’s Global Citizens & it is responsibility of every one to educate them about the need of Sapling plantation, create awareness on Go Green concepts, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, India & Varied heritage, Science & Technology development in India, India & Space programs and encourage them to participate in the competitions we conduct. This is what we do as part of Livable Planet earth initiative.
Marking centenary celebrations of Shri Saibaba Maha Samadhi, we are conducting Livable Planet earth in 100 Government Schools in 2018. We will be conducting sports & games competitions in the schools if we already completed Essay Writing, Drawing competitions etc. We are going to plant 2 Saplings (Shraddha & Saburi) and going to present certificates to all participants and prizes to the winners.
We need everyone's support to identify Government schools in your area to conduct the competitions.
SMS Sanskrit High, Kovvur
We conducted this initiative at our adopted School - SMS Sanskrit School, Kovvur and organised games/sports as part of Republic Day Celebrations in 2018 as we already conducted Essay Writing & other competitions as part of Independence Day celebrations in 2017. Shri G.B.V. Subramanyam, Head of the School with the support from the school staff conducted Kabaddi, Kho Kho, Volleyball, Running & Skipping to all the students on 24th & 25th Jan 2018. We distributed prizes to the winners, chocolates, biscuits to all the students and also planted 2 saplings.
Click below link to watch videos and photos of the competitions
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/2002872689755387
GVMC School, Visakhapatnam
Our Vizag family members conducted this initiative at GVMC Primary School, Ex Service men colony. This school has a strength of 125 with classes from 1st to 5th. We requested School head mistress Smt. Ganga Bhavani garu to conduct Poems recitation for 1st & 2nd Class and Drawing competition on Go Green initiatives for 3rd, 4th & 5th class students on 25th Jan 2018.
On 26th Jan 2018, marking Republic Day, our family members Parvateesam, Gopi & Ramesh attended flag hoisting ceremony at School and distributed Crayons, Geometry boxes, Dictionaries, Pencils, Pens as prizes to all the winners of the competitions. We also sponsored & distributed Exam pads to all 85 students of 3rd, 4th & 5th class. We planted 2 Saplings as Shraddha & Saburi as we are organizing this as part of Centenary celebrations of Shri Saibaba Maha Samadhi.
Keeping in mind Kids like something to eat, we sponsored Biscuits & Chocolates to all 125 students of the school. It is really a great satisfaction to see the smiles in the innocent faces of the kids.
Click below link to watch the videos and appreciate the talent of the kids.
https://www.facebook.com/srisaianugraha/posts/1992953827413940
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Misc Charges
1. Spent ₹150/- on Paper plates, glasses during visit to Sadashraya Home Visit.
2. Paid ₹1,450/- towards transportation expenses for Mementos & Chair expenses for 10th Sai Anugraha Day.
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Upcoming Activities
1. We are going to raise funds towards Books or Bricks initiative for sponsoring Education help for Academic Year 2018-19.
2. We are going to organize Baba Prasadalay in 100 Oldage homes/Orphanages in the month of October 2018 marking 100 years of Shri Saibaba's Maha Samadhi. We will be raising funds for this initiative in the months of August & September 2018. Please identify and refer Oldage Homes & Orphanages in your location.
3. We are going to organize Livable Planet earth in 100 Government schools in 2018 marking 100 years of Shri Saibaba's Maha Samadhi. Please identify and refer Oldage Homes & Orphanages in your location.
Watch below video explaining about Baba Prasadalay 100 & Livable Planet earth 100
https://youtu.be/zavIYwB3kg8
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Tax Benefits - 80G Exemption
Donations to Sai Anugraha are Tax Exempted u/s 80G of Income Tax Act, 1961 and requesting your support and helping hand towards all initiatives. If interested, please send your valuable contributions to below Sai Anugraha accounts. You can be a monthly donor too.
PLEASE DO NOT TRANSFER FUNDS USING XOOM/WESTERN UNION/REMITLY or ANY OTHER FUND TRANSFER AGENCIES.
For any fund transfers from outside India, please reach us if interested to donate amount towards our initiatives.
HDFC Bank
Account Name: SAI ANUGRAHA
Account Number: 20501450000033
Bank Name: HDFC Bank Ltd
Branch Name: Pallavaram, Chennai
IFSC Code: HDFC0002050
MICR Code: 600240079
ICICI Bank
Account Name: SAI ANUGRAHA
Account Number: 038501003046
Bank Name: ICICI Bank Ltd
Branch Name: Velachery, Chennai
IFSC Code: ICIC0000385
MICR Code: 600229027
Special thanks to each and every one for taking part in all the spiritual and social service activities initiated by Sai Anugraha and for extending your helping hand in reaching the needy.
Requesting everyone to spread the word about Sai Anugraha and our initiatives and make more people join hands with us. To know more about us, please email us at info@saianugraha.org.
Samastha Loka Sukhino Bhavanthu
Thanks & Regards,
Sai Anugraha
Family of Helping Hands & Praying Lips
