Sevalaya
- Location : Near Chennai, India
- Community Served: Children
- Focus: Education
Organization background
Since 1988, Sevalaya, a charitable organization in India,
has been running a destitute children's Home, and
a free unaided school for the children at the Home
and the surrounding villages. They also run
a free medical center, craft center, and
library; a goshala to shelter dry and milk yielding cows;
and an old age home for destitute senior citizens.
The campus is spread out over 14 acres, with a primary and secondary school building; a computer
lab with more than 50 computers; library with more than 15,000 books; playground; science labs;
and a kitchen that can cook for more than 300 people at a time.
In addition, they help the neighbouring community by conducting self-help classes (sewing, computer)
and have a mobile library that goes to the villages and loans books to people.
Project background
The school has classes from pre-KG to Class XII. There are 2000+ students
(150+ children come from the orphanage and the rest from surrounding villages). They charge no
fees and also provide text books, stationery and uniforms for free.
There are around 60 residents in the old age home.
GKF contributions to Sevalaya
- 2008:
Teaching staff salary
- 2009:
Balwadi for younger children in Grantees school
- 2010:
Building second floor of Grantees primary school
- 2011:
(i) Buying a school bus
(ii) Installing solar street lighting on campus
- 2013:
(i) Buying notebooks for all children, and costs associated with library (hiring a librarian, furniture for a quiet room, buying additional books)
(ii) GKF also made a few thousand books available through First Book and Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry
- 2014:
Buying notebooks for all children
- 2015-2018,2020-2022:
School uniforms for all the children
- 2019:
(i) School uniforms for all the children
(ii) Sanitizer and cleaning supplies for children and elders at Sevalaya to protect against COVID 19
- 2020-2021: School uniforms for all the children
- 2022-2023:
(i) School uniforms for all the children
(ii) Support for skill training centre that will train approximatey 150 youth
- 2024: Support for skill training centre that will train approximatey 225 men and women in computer, tailoring and beautician courses
and tuition center for children