Greetings from Sai Anugraha, A Family of Helping Hands & Praying Lips.
“I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
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 August 2018. We received an amount of ₹1,55,778/- as donations and spent an amount of ₹1,72,421.70/- towards Books or Bricks, Baba Prasadalay, Livable Planet earth and Misc. Expenses.
Click here to read up-to-date activities in 2018 & Click here for up-to-date Donations received in 2018.
Livable Planet earth
Livable Planet earth is an Initiative of Sai Anugraha designed to spread the awareness of GO GREEN with younger generation. We organize Sapling plantation drives, conduct Essay Writing, Drawing and other competitions to the students of Government Schools on preserving nature, India & varied Heritage, Dr. Kalam, Science & Technology developments in India etc.
As part of this initiative, We conducted Essay Writing on “Environmental Protection” & Drawing Competition on “Swachh Bharat” & “Gandhi ji” for students of Primary School, Gullalapalem, Visakhapatnam on 13th August 2018 and distributed prizes on 15th August 2018 marking Independence Day. We also planted 2 saplings marking the occasion at the school premises.
Click Here for full details and drawing competition pics to see how creative the kids are.
Note: Please let us know if anyone interested to organize this initiative in any Government School in your location. Sai Anugraha will sponsor the event, Gifts, Chocolates, Biscuits, Saplings.
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 ₹1,69,570/- in the month of August as mentioned below:
1. Sponsored 1st Intermediate college fee of ₹16,100/- for Marthi Venkata Adithya.
2. Sponsored 5th Class School Fee of ₹6,000/- for Nikhitha.
3. Sponsored 5th Class School Fee of ₹15,695/- for Tarun Sai.
4. Sponsored 1st Class School fee of ₹9,300/- for Ashitha.
5. Sponsored 3rd Class School fee of ₹10,200/- for Ashwin.
6. Sponsored 9th Class School Fee of ₹20,550/- for Sandeep.
7. Sponsored 8th I Term School Fee of ₹8,000 for Bhargavi.
8. Sponsored 7th Class School fee of ₹18,245/- for P. Navya Sridevi.
9. Sponsored II Year Engineering College Fee of ₹43,300/- for Gayathi.
10. Sponsored Lunch of ₹22,180/- to all Visually challenged students of Karna Vidya
Foundation attending Career Oriented Training.
Baba Prasadalay
1. Sponsored 25kg rice of ₹1,100/- to residents of OM Mandir Orphanage, Vizianagaram. This is sponsored by Smt. Vani from Hyderabad marking her Son's Birthday.
Misc Charges
1. Deducted ₹5.90/- IMPS P2P 821108112756#30-07-2018 310718-MIR1821636059309 - 08-08-2018.
2. Deducted ₹5.90/- IMPS P2P 821904192870#07-08-2018 080818-MIR1822448549949 - 14-08-2018.
3. Deducted ₹5.90/- IMPS P2P 822504121348#13-08-2018 150818-MIR1822960084784 - 18-08-2018.
Ongoing & Upcoming Activities
1. We are very happy to announce that we are one of the sponsor for “Boccia National Team Championship - 2018" being held at Adventure Zone, Madurantakam on 8th & 9th September 2018. This is a Paralympic Sport that can be played by anyone with/without disabilities. This event is organised by EKTA, a member of Para Sports Foundation. Click here for more details.
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 Government schools in your location and send email to info@saianugraha.org.
Watch below video explaining about Baba Prasadalay 100 & Livable Planet earth 100.
https://youtu.be/zavIYwB3kg8
4. We raised ₹1,08,366/- towards "Let's Help & Pray for Kerala" initiative of Sai Anugraha and working on helping students who lost everything in floods. More details to follow.
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 August 2018 and let us know if you recognize it by sending email to info@saianugraha.org with Transaction remarks and Date of Transfer.
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.
Click Here to read how we "Celebrating Decade in the Service of Humanity" if missed to read last time.
Samastha Loka Sukhino Bhavanthu
Thanks & Regards,
Sai Anugraha
Family of Helping Hands & Praying Lips
