Greetings to you from the Children, Senior citizens, Staff and Trustees of SEVALAYA!

We thank you very much for your continued support to Sevalaya in the past 18 years. With your kind support Sevalaya’s Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School has achieved the following:

• Brought 630 orphan, destitute and poor rural children in and around 13 villages under the education system, where there was no education for generations.
• Achieved 100% result in 10th Standard board exam for the past 3 consecutive years.
• 26 students passed out of Sevalaya last year, joined colleges, a record in this and the surrounding villages.
• 3 students have joined professional courses. 2 in engineering college and 1 doing B.Sc (Agri).
• Many students going for higher education are financially supported by Sevalaya.

This year, the school strength is likely to touch 1000. To provide 2 sets of uniforms, books and notebooks to these children, we estimate initial academic year expenditure of Rs 10,00,000, at the rate of Rs 1000 per child.

As in the previous years, we are sure we have your support to make quality education accessible to the poor children in a remote village, providing them better opportunities.

Donations in kind, cash or cheque can be sent to our campus address:

Sevalaya,
Kasuva Village,
Thiruninravur post – 602024
Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, India

If you are in TCS, you can send the cheque drawn in favour of ‘SEVALAYA’ to V.Muralidharan in TCS, Cathedral road office, Chennai. We don’t have ICICI or HDFC bank account.

If you are not in India, please click here on how to transfer funds.

With Regards
For Sevalaya,
V Muralidharan (Managing Trustee)

Hat Trick by SEVALAYA!

Sevalaya has done it again! For the third year in a row, Sevalaya’s Mahakavi Bharthiyar Higher Secondary School has secured 100% pass results in the recent X Std Board Examinations. V. Gomathi, the daughter of a poor agricultural labourer has se cured the first place in school scoring 420 marks out of 500 (84%). In all 7 students have passed with distinction scoring above 80% and 11 students have scored first class (above 60 %). Considreing the background of the school students, from rural poor families, children from broken homes, shattered families, this is an achievement which is very significant. Sevalaya provides textbooks, notebooks and 2 sets of uniforms to all the students of the Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School absolutely free of cost. All this is not possible for Sevalaya without the help and support of you all- our donors and well wishers. All your contributions by way of money, notebooks, textbooks, contribution to the School building Fund. Contributions for infrastructure, spending time with the children etc., have all paid rich dividends today. Sevalaya once again thanks each and every one of you for making a big difference in the lives of the underprivileged children.

Thanks & Regards
V Muralidharan (Managing Trustee)

Thanks to all your support, Sevalaya achieves 100% result in 12th standard exams in agriculture group; overall pass percentage is 80%. This is the first plus two batch appearing from Sevalaya's school. All contributions made for the construction of a school building in a remote village, where there was no school 14 years ago, all contributions made for the purchase of uniforms, books, note books and other teaching aids, all the time spent by volunteers in teaching children, all time spent by all of us in training our teachers have given us all a huge return on investment. All these children who have come out with flying colours, are destitute, poor or orphan children. They are from broken homes, lost their parents in early age, abandoned by their own parents and relatives or from very poor families. Many children from the villages are from very poor families having a monthly average income of Rs 600 per family. Such children would not have even dreamt of coming to schools, but for the help rendered by all of you. We have once again proved that if given proper environment, children from such background will come up very well in life. R.Vinodkumar, a poor student from Pakkam village has scored 1028 out of 1200 and has stood first in the school. He is from our computer science stream. His parents are both building construction coolies.

It is a proud moment for all of us. Thanks a lot once again.

Thanks & Regards
V Muralidharan (Managing Trustee)

Greetings to you from the children, senior citizens, staff and trustees of Sevalaya. Sevalaya's Mahakavi Bharathiyar Higher Secondary School is proving quality education absolutely free of cost to 700 orphan, destitute and poor rural children. 2 sets of Uniforms, textbooks and note books are also provided to the students free of cost. Most of the students are from broken homes and shattered families and many of them are first generation school goers. Considering the background of the students it is a matter of pride for Sevalaya that the school has secured 100% pass results in the X Std Board examinations successively for 2 years i.e, 2002 - 2003 and 2003 - 2004. As you are well aware, Sevalaya is a charitable institution run purely with the donations by the philanthropic public. The estimate for initial academic expenditure for the 700 students for the year 2005 - 2006 works out to Rs 7,00,000/, at the rate of Rs 1000/ per student. We will be able to meet this huge expenditure only with the help of our donors/well wishers. Hence we appeal to you to contribute generously towards this cause as in the previous years and make quality education accessible to the poor children in a remote village, providing them better opportunities.

Thanks & Regards
V Muralidharan (Managing Trustee)

Sevalaya has been contributing its bit, in a very small way, to help the tsunami victims. We have identified two fishermen colonies, one near Ennur, called ‘Erranavur kuppam’ and another village near Kovalam called ‘Kovalam Kuppam’. These two villages had only few cases of loss of life, but 450 families lost all their belongings and are on streets now. As they have also lost their fishing boats and nets, they are unable to go for fishing, the only work they know, and hence are totally dependent on the help they can get from others for their day to day survival. As the number of deaths reported are very low in these villages, it has not got the attention of various agencies involved in relief work. Hence Sevalaya decided to help these 450 families. As they will need another 3 to 4 months, before they can get back to normalcy, Sevalaya has decided to support them till that time, with the help of the donor network we have. Already rice bags have been sent to both the villages. The village elders have received them and doing proper distribution, in the presence of the Sevalaya team. If Sevalaya can get enough funds, we can even think of buying boats and nets for these two villages. Please mention that the donation is for Tsunami aid for donations towards Tsunami relief.

Thanks & Regards
V Muralidharan (Managing Trustee)