Blanket Drive 2019

6 Jan 2019

Our community had planned to distribute 5000 blankets this winter. Various individuals and organizations including FIA GA are contributing towards it. Sewa International has raised around $2,500 towards this.

 

Jan 5th Saturday morning, as part of Blankets Drive, Sewa international volunteers went ahead and donated blankets to Forsyth Family Safe Heaven and Forsyth Juvenile detention center some blankets. They were very appreciative of the work and thank you all for donations

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Blanket for Hope 2019

20 Jan 2019

Our community had planned to distribute 5000 blankets this winter. Various individuals and organizations including Federation of Indian-American Associations of Georgia are contributing towards it. Sewa International USA - Atlanta has raised around $2,500 towards this. Today morning this as part of Blankets Drive, Sewa International USA - Atlanta volunteers went ahead and donated 35 blankets to Home of Hope at Gwinnett Children's Shelter . They were very appreciative of the work and thank you all for donations. In the picture (from L to R Ramesh Rapelly, Viswanath Koppaka & Maureen Kornow, Executive Director of Home for Hope.)

Sewa Badminton Tournament 2019

20 Feb 2019

Sewa sports group has conducted for the very first time “Shuttle Masters” Badminton Tournament 2019 in association with Atlanta Badminton Club on the day of Basant i.e., Feb 9 and 10 at Suwanee. The beneficiary of the tournament was “Sewa Family Emergency Services”. 

The tournament had 24 different event categories catering to people from all ages, skill level. It attracted ~100 players participating in multiple events spread over 2 days. The audience and the players got to watch more than 225 matches over 16 hours. A highly competitive set of people but all getting together for a noble cause.

This event also attracted more than 25 volunteers who worked tirelessly and selflessly before 2 months of the event and until the culmination.

Café Bahar chose to support Sewa as a sponsor setting up stalls and donating the profits as a charity

Sewa extends their gratitude to all players, volunteers and sponsors.

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Update on Aspire Atlanta

Sewa International, Atlanta Chapter has been working with Cumming Elementary School for little over a year. We started our partnership over the summer when volunteers Manika Singh, Divyaraj Singh, Bharat Singh, Amod Sureka, Raj Sureka, Jay Sureka, Swadesh Katoch joined special education teacher Mrs. Anna Doll in making an outdoor community vegetable garden for all the students of the school. It is estimated that more than 13 million children live in food insecure homes. Growing food in community and home gardens can provide people with more access to fresh vegetables. The school’s community garden teaches the children one way that they can have easy access to inexpensive, fresh, healthy food.

Since September of 2018, every second and fourth Saturday 15-25 Sewa volunteers spend three hours of their morning with first and second grade students from this same elementary school. They read together, students write in their journals, and they do math problems. The high school students are also exposing these elementary school students to STEM experiments and projects and encourage physical activity thru yoga and soccer. The children are offered a healthy snack before going home. In February, the students had a special guest, a dietician from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, attend the Saturday morning tutoring program and talk to them about healthy habits. They learned about the sugar content in soda, Gatorade, juice and water and understood why water is the best drink for their body. They learned the importance of making half their plate fruits and vegetables and why they should stay active and limit screen time.

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Spin Masters Table Tennis Tournament 2019

Sewa sports group conducted Spin Masters Table Tennis tournament 2019 on Saturday March 2nd 2019.

The tournament was conducted as a fundraiser for Sewa’s Family services initiative.

Inspite of being the first time the tournament got a very good response from Table Tennis enthusiasts of North Atlanta area. Over 65 participants participated in various tournament categories viz. Juniors under 14, Womens & Mens Singles and Mens Doubles.

The audience enjoyed watching over 90 individual very competitive games during the event.

The tournament attracted over 20 youth and adult volunteers all coming together to support this event for a noble cause.

Sewa would like to thank

- Archi’s Table Tennis Club who sponsored all the trophies given to the Winners and Runners-up players

- Café Bahar for setting up food stalls and support sewa by donating a percentage of their earnings to Sewa for this noble cause.

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Chess Mates Tournament 2019

01-Apr-2019

Sewa sports group conducted Chess Mates tournament on Sunday, March 31st, 2019.

The tournament was conducted as a fundraiser for Sewa’s Family services initiative.

It was conducted for the very first time, got a very good response from Chess enthusiasts of Atlanta area. About 60 participated in various tournament categories viz. Unrated(open), Rated (U500, U1000)

The tournament also attracted about 10 youth and adult volunteers all coming together to support this event for a noble cause.

Sewa would like to thank

- Chesstronics for giving the location at reasonable price.

Sewa extends its gratitude to all the players, volunteers and sponsors for the enthusiastic participation in this event.

The tournament was inaugurated by Mrs. Deepa Luthra in a customary way with Ganesh Vandana. Mr, Nishanth Trivedi (Tournament Lead Coordinator) welcomed all the participants to the tournament and informed about the rules of the game along with Suriya Kopula the tournament director. It was followed by an address by the chief guest of the event Deepa Luthra who provided insight into Sewa International’s Family services in Metro Atlanta. Mr. Vijai shared his vision as sports coordinator of Atlanta chapter. Deepa Sharma and Prakash Srivastava helped remotely with volunteer and player registrations and website marketing.

Below is the list of Winners and Runners-up in each category:

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