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Date: 30-Nov-2020 Location: Online Shanthi Ashram in association with Sarvam, Sri Aurobindo Society organized an awareness program for parents virtually on 30th November 2020 on “Healthy Parenting during COVID-19 and beyond.  This online training program aimed at creating awareness to the parents on bringing up their children successfully. Around 35 parents from SARVAM project villages participated in…

Date: 09-Nov-2020 Location: Poothurai, Villupuram SARVAM, the rural development wing of Sri Aurobindo Society in association with the U.S. Consulate has been conducting two-year English Access Micro Scholarship Program for the past few years.  The fourth batch of English Access Microscholarship Program successfully commenced on Nov 9, 2020 at the Satyam Community Centre, Poothurai.  More than 110…

Date: 01-Nov-2020 Location: Health Department, Pondicherry Health Department of Puducherry organized a meeting with officials of all the Community Radio Station that are functioning in Puducherry. The coordinator of Pudiya Udayam Community Radio Station attended the meeting. The objective of this meeting is to make use of all the Community Radio Stations to create awareness to the…

Date: 01-Sep-2020 Location: Poothurai, Villupuram Sarvam is working in 40 new villages for the Digital Sakhi project which is funded by the LTFS, Mumbai. This is the second successful year of the project and the project work is being done by the Digital Sakhis is all the 40 villages. This pandemic and the resultant lockdown has brought…

Date: 02-Oct-2020 Location:Satyam Community Centre, Villupuram SARVAM, in association with L&T Financial Services, Mumbai has implemented a project called Digital Sakhi which focusses on providing awareness on Digital Financial Literacy. After having successfully completed the first batch, the second round of the project was sanctioned for SARVAM, and all works related to the Digital Sakhi project…

Date: 03-Sep-2020 Location: Online English Access Program has been a great success right from its inception. This program has greatly enabled the underprivileged students to learn English thereby helping them in their personality development. The students need to have skilled teachers who can guide them through this journey. This pandemic had helped to find out new solutions…

Date: 20-Aug-2020 Location: Online LTFS organized a 2-day NPCI training on 20th & 24th August 2020 for the Digital Sakhis and Coordinators of SARVAM.  Due to the current pandemic situation, keeping in lines with the government norms, these sessions were conducted online for the participants.  The Zoom link was shared with all the participants and they were also educated…

Date: 09-Jun-2020 Location: Sharanam Training Centre An awareness programme on COVID-19, to 63 young women was held on July 9, 2020, at the Sharanam Training Centre in Poothurai.  This is the ‘Train the Trainer’ programme and these young aspirants after this training were assigned the task of creating awareness to their villagers. To lay in line with…

Date: 21-Jun-2020 Location: Online SARVAM organizes Yoga Classes for the students every year in their Satyam Campus, Poothurai Village on account of International Day of Yoga. The main objective of arranging this yoga class is to create awareness amongst the students about the importance of practicing Yoga and to help them learn some useful and important asanas…

Date: 25-May-2020 Location: Online “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop and makes a person lazy,” says Mahatma Gandhi.  At this time of lockdown, this is true.  When grownups themselves feel very bored, what will be the state of children who were eagerly waiting to enjoy their summer holidays? Shanti Ashram, Coimbatore and SARVAM, of Sri Aurobindo…