Team News Riveting
Raipur, April 15
Seva Bharti, a non-governmental organization (NGO) working among the economically weaker sections of the society, had started a quarantine centre in Raipur.
The 50-bedded centre was inaugurated on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti on Wednesday. The centre equipped with oxygen facility for the patients would operate from the premises of Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Devendra Nagar.
Set up with the assistance from Maharashtra Mandal, Raipur’s renowned medical institute VY Hospital would provide the medical assistance and had deployed its work force besides equipment for the noble cause.
During the COVID-19 crises and specially during the lockdown period, Seva Bharti had been providing all necessary help to the needy. The organisation works among urban slum dwellers and resettlement colonies by introducing welfare and social service programs, such as free medical assistance, free education, and vocational training.
The massive relief work carried out by Seva Bharati following the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, the 2008 Bihar flood 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and the Kerala Flood 1st and 2nd came in for considerable appreciation from various quarters. The organisation is also known for its efforts in rehabilitating the victims of terror, especially the children who are rendered orphans by terror attacks.
The volunteers of Seva Bharati today are involved in more than one hundred thousand service projects in remote areas of the country. These projects, serving the economically weaker and socially neglected sections of the society range from medical assistance, crèche, library, hostel, basic education, adult education, vocational and industrial training, upliftment of street children and the lepers. Through these projects Seva Bharti aims at making the underprivileged sections of the society self-reliant in all aspects of their lives.
