Sevalaya

Project Brief: Sevalaya is a non-profit organization that has been working to provide free education to orphans and disadvantaged children in the community. They need funding for notebooks from us for this year.
Project Type: Residential School (description)
Primary Focus: orphans (description)

Secondary Focus: to go to formal school

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Berkeley
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Anitha Sivasankaran
Project Partner(s): Muralidharan V
Other Contacts: Anand Raghavan
Project Address: , Sevalaya, Kasuva Village Pakkam PO,near Thiruninravur, 60202,Kasuva Village,
TAMIL NADU  602024
Tel: 26344243 / 9444346699
Stewarding Chapter: Berkeley
Dec 2007Silicon ValleyUSD 5000
Dec 1999ChicagoUSD 2500
Dec 1999UIUCUSD 470

Total = $7970

An established non-profit organization, Sevalaya has been working in the Kasuva village area for over 19 years to provide absolutely free education - including books and uniforms - to economically disadvantaged children whose families cannot even afford to send them to Government schools. Sevalaya also runs an orphanage, old age home, medical facility, library and a goshala (cow shelter) for the community.
Asha Berkeley is currently stewarding the project, and Asha Silicon Valley is currently funding the project.
In the past, Sevalaya has been funded by Asha Chicago, UIUC.
Sevalaya was founded by five young people - Mr. V. Muralidharan and his friends. It started functioning on May 29, 1988 with 5 children in a small rented house at Sivanvoil village. During 1990-91, with the support of philanthropic minded public, Sevalaya began operating its own premises situated in 1.52 acres of own land at Kasuva, a remote village near Chennai which did not have any medical and schooling facilities. Sevalaya also runs an orphanage, old age home, medical facility, library and a goshala (cow shelter) for the community