Tuesday, July 31, 2018

July Social Service Newsletter

Dear Family members, 

Greetings from Sai Anugraha, A Family of Helping Hands & Praying Lips.  

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —  Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other   

As a Sai Anugraha family member, every one of us extending helping hand in best possible way and serving the needy and working towards betterment of the society. 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. 

Click here to read how we "Celebrating Decade in the Service of Humanity" if missed to read last time.

It's time now to read how we as a family made a difference to the society thru our social service activities in the month of July 2018. We received an amount of ₹ 1,98,326/- as donations and ₹ 2,068/- as Interest and spent an amount of ₹ 5,18,944.50/- towards Books or Bricks, Baba Prasadalay and Misc. Expenses. 

Click here to read up to date activities in 2018 & Click here for up to date Donations received in 2018.

Books or Bricks

This initiative is so prominent for Sai Anugraha as we invest in future of the nation. "Once you have Education, no one can take it away". Hence, it attracts significance importance for tomorrow's leaders to have Books in their hands and not Bricks. This initiative is to encourage students to pursue quality education by providing tuition fee assistance, school Uniforms, curriculum books and other related necessities. 

In total we sponsored Education requests of ₹ 5,00,395/- in the month of July as mentioned below:

 1. Sponsored III Year Engineering Fee of  25,000/- for Sai Kumar. 
 2. Sponsored 2090 Notebooks of worth ₹ 34,000/- to 290 Students of 3 Government Schools,  

      Vizianagaram. Click below links to read more about it. 


      Also, click link to read an article with title "Charity is Contagious" to know how the 
      vendor from whom we are purchasing all stationery for Sai Anugraha initiatives got  
      motivated with our work.       
    

 3. Sponsored X Class School Fee of ₹ 10,440/- for Trinadh.
 4. Sponsored I Class School Fee of ₹ 9,000/- for Niharika. 
 5. Sponsored I Year Intermediate College Fee of ₹ 15,000/- for Ganesh.
 6. Sponsored I Year Intermediate College fee of ₹ 7,000/- for Kamalakar.
 7. Sponsored II Year Intermediate College fee of ₹ 8,000/- for Purna Sai Ganesh.
 8. Sponsored VIII Class School fee of ₹ 6,000/- for Beulah.
 9. Sponsored II Year Degree College fee of ₹ 6,000/- for Bommana Prasanna Jyothi.
10. Sponsored II Year Degree College fee of ₹ 9,875/- for Bhawani Kumar.
11. Sponsored X Class School fee of ₹ 19,200/- for Deekshitha.
12. Sponsored VIII Class School Fee of ₹ 8,680/- for Chakri.
13. Sponsored I Year Engineering fee of ₹ 25,000/- for Yerra Siva Venkata Durga Sai.
14. Sponsored X Class School fee of ₹ 12,000/- for Paramesh.
15. Sponsored VIII Class School fee for ₹ 8,000/- Raghuvel.
16. Sponsored IX Class School fee of ₹ 10,000/- for Surendra.
17. Sponsored D.Ed College fee of ₹ 40,000/- for Sai Mounica. Read how we were able to 
      address this education request by clicking the link "Social Service Needs Advertising".
18. Sponsored III Year Engineering fee of ₹ 41,000/- for Prathyusha.
19. Sponsored III Year Engineering fee of ₹ 50,000/- for Dinesh Kumar. 
20. Sponsored III Year Degree fee of ₹ 40,650/- for Ramesh.
21. Sponsored II Year Engineering Fee of ₹ 73,550/- for Sai Kiran.
22. Sponsored DIET II Year Fee of ₹ 33,000/- for Prasada Rao Bondapalli. 
23.
Sponsored Scholarships of worth ₹ 9,000/- to TOP 4 performers from X Class and  
      school uniforms of worth ₹ 3,42,400/- (transferred money in June 2018) to all 285 
      students of SMS Sanskrit School, Kovvur. Click below link for more details. 

Baba Prasadalay

Sai Anugraha is on its way to showcase the world the importance of maintaining human relationships thru volunteerism. Under this initiative where, we frequently visit orphanages, old age homes, schools & homes of special children to spend some quality time with the inmates. These visits showcase some of the purest human relations as these innocent hearts celebrate their Birthdays and special days, play around and enjoy the food served with love by our family members. We sponsored an amount of ₹18,520/- under this initiative in the month of July.

1. Sponsored 25kg rice ( 1,100/-) to residents of OM Mandir Orphanage, Vizianagaram. 
2. Sponsored Cake, Upma, Samosa, Sheer Kurma (₹ 3,800/-) to Kids at Samwad Shala Lonavala. 


    Click below link to read full details. 
3. Sponsored Lunch & Cake (₹ 2,000/-) at Sri Durga Malleshwara Oldage Home and Orphanage, 
    Kotha Korangi. 

    Click below link to read full details.
4. Sponsored Lunch & Cake (₹ 4,300/-) for residents of Vivekananda Seva Sangham Home for the 
    Aged & Kids at Hyderabad. 
    

    Click below link to read full details.
5. Sponsored 25kg Rice, 12Kg Dal, 10 ltr Oil (₹ 3,000/-) to residents of Manaspoorthi Home, 
    Kakinada. 
6. Sponsored Midday meals (₹ 4,320/-) to 3 beneficiaries at Kanchipalli, A.P. 

Misc Charges

1. Deducted ₹ 5.90/- IMPS P2P 817920184998#28-06-2018 290618-MIR1818379676399 on 02-07-
    2018. 
2. Deducted ₹ 5.90/- IMPS P2P 819009128451#09-07-2018 100718-MIR1819499761313 on 13-07-
    2018. 
3. Deducted ₹ 5.90/- IMPS P2P 819611132900#15-07-2018 170718-MIR1820122416019 on 24-07-
    2018. 
4. Deducted ₹ 5.90/- IMPS P2P 819821176471#17-07-2018 180718-MIR1820222965923 on 25-07-
    2018. 
5. Deducted ₹ 5.90/- IMPS P2P 820004160694#19-07-2018 200718-MIR1820324893987 on 25-07-
    2018. 

Ongoing & Upcoming Activities

1. We are going to organize Baba Prasadalay in 100 Old age 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. 
2. 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 Government schools 
    in your location. 

Watch below video explaining about Baba Prasadalay 100 & Livable Planet earth 100. 


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 

Unknown Donations

For all the donations received from April-2018, we sent acknowledgements. We are in the process of sending e-receipts too. We received few donations to Sai Anugraha and not able to identify the donor and hence not able to send acknowledgements and marked them as "Unknown Donations". Please click here for unknown donations received from April to July 2018 and let us know if you recognize it by sending email to info@saianugraha.org with Transaction remarks.

Special thanks to each and every one for taking part in all 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. 

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

Samastha Loka Sukhino Bhavanthu 

Thanks & Regards,
Sai Anugraha
Family of Helping Hands & Praying Lips

Sai Anugraha Family