Sri Sathya Sai Global Council Foundation

The Sri Sathya Sai Global Council Foundation (sssgcf) engaged in various humanitarian projects during the fiscal year. It supported several projects of the Sri Sathya Sai central trust (sssct) encompassing a wide range of initiatives, including educational support, medical equipment, ent department, general hospital, disaster relief, narayana seva (relief to poor), general public utility, and medical relief (white field hospital).sssgcf conducted two medical camps at puttaparthi, india, providing essential medical support to those in need. It supported the ukraine war relief efforts by purchasing two ambulances. The Sri Sathya Sai overseas organization, Sri lanka also received assistance in relieving the difficulties of the needy people in Sri lanka. Dry rations were distributed to poor people in five zones.in addition, a contribution was made to the Sri Sathya Sai institute of higher learning (sssihl) library project, which was aimed at providing better education to needy students. Support was extended for the christmas celebrations in prasanthi nilayam. These series of programs were open to all regardless of nationality, creed, religion, gender, etc. And helped to spread unity, goodwill and peace amongst people from all over the world.

Community drinking water project: although much progress has been made in nepal in the area of rural drinking water supply system, there are still pockets, nevertheless, where the decades old water supply systems have defuncted forcing people, especially the women and children, to drudgery of carrying drinking water pots on their back for miles. They have to tread hours over the hilly slopes to fetch water from the temporarily dug ditch. Worse still the ditch usually gets dry due to heavy off take or during dry season. Hence, one has to wait for 4 5 hours for his/her turn just for a pot of water. School going children, who are usually assigned for this job, are victims of such arduous practices and unhygienic water. As a result, while many children miss their classes, the effect of use of contaminated water has also shown its ugly face with adversely affected health of the villagers. In order to mitigate the drudgery, albeit in small scale, sssoon has given priority to the construction of community drinking water supply projects. The eight projects, so far completed, used over 100 kms pipeline to serve over 1,000 households, 11 schools with 4,000 students in the hilly regions that are sparsely populated. Recently, sssoon identified two areas that have acute shortages of drinking water one at khani gaun, likhu village, nuwakot and another at deusa tole, likhu village, okhaldhunga. Socially and economically under-privileged indigenous people constitute the main inhabitants in both these areas. Both the projects have been designed with holistic approach. Besidesproviding drinking water, it aims to educate the villagers on hygiene and sanitation, use of toilets, medical service, and spiritual awareness program, etc. The nuwakot project has been selected to receive support from the sssgcf.