Shakha karyakartas from Arjuna shakha (Centerville, Fremont) approached the City of Newark, CA mayor to present the SEWA activities they have been involved in the Alameda county. Mayor Al Nagy, was very courteous and responded to our email with an appointment on 09/09. Mayor Al Nagy was very courteous and presented us a brief history of the city.
Highlights of our meeting with the mayor:
As we all know due to the Covid-19 pandemic normal life has changed, but for many HSS seniors they missed out on something they had been working up to their whole life, Graduation. So on June 6th 2020, Georgia Vibhag Kishor Pramukh Abhinay Sharma Ji recommended to hold an e-graduation for all the seniors of 2020 in the Southeast Sambhag. He and Srishti Talati assembled a team of kishors from all the Vibhags in Southeast. This included Mrunal Munshi (North Carolina), Mrunal Dongre (North Carolina), Yukta Kulkarni (Florida), and Gargi Konteti (Georgia).
HSS volunteers gave time, money and energy to over pandemic challenges.
They delivered food, personal protection equipment, non perishable foods and helped out of town universtity students find shelter in the Greate Seattle
Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh(HSS) steps up to donate 5,000+ masks in SF Bay Area and raised $15,000
Hindu Swayam Sevak believes that “Service to Humanity is Service to God”, extremely relevant in the Covid-19 pandemic times we live in, there is a great need to lend a helping hand to the less fortunate in our communities. HSS volunteers rose to the occasion and supported the refugees, who are finding their footing in a new land they had adopted.
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, HSS volunteers from the Georgio branch including its youth chapter stepped up to the challenge of helping their community..They collaborated with and brought together several other organizations to amplify their efforts.As a token of appreciation and expression of gratitude,HSS and Sewa International volunteers provided more than 6,000 PPE including 3 ply surgical masks, KN 95, N95 and cotton masks to the first responders to four Georgia cities, Cobb County Police and Fire Department, Alpharetta Police and Fire department, Dunwoody Police department
