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Our work

Seva takes six shapes, depending on what the day asks for.

Some of it is planned — a camp, a plantation drive, a set of school kits. Some of it arrives by phone at an odd hour. Both are our work.

Wide documentary photograph: volunteers unloading ration sacks from a small tempo van on a dusty street in Bahadurgarh, people helping in a chain, warm morning

Helping underprivileged people

Ration and cooked food for households that have run short. Warm clothing and blankets before winter. Slippers, utensils, medicines — the small things that are quietly missing from a home.

Wherever possible we deliver at the door, so that no one has to stand in a line to prove they are poor.

Documentary photograph: a volunteer handing a ration bag at the doorway of a modest home in a narrow lane, the family receiving it with folded hands, natural da

Education & skill development

Books, bags, uniforms and stationery so that a child's education does not pause for want of two hundred rupees. Help with school admission and fees where a family cannot manage it alone.

For older students and women, skill sessions — stitching, computer basics, spoken English, interview preparation — so that help becomes independence.

Documentary photograph: a small skill-training session with women at sewing machines in a simple community hall in Haryana, daylight from a doorway, focused han

Health & awareness initiatives

Check-up camps held inside the colonies rather than far from them, blood donation drives, and help for patients and families who do not know where to go next.

Awareness work on hygiene, nutrition, women's health and addiction — spoken plainly, in the language of the street it is held on.

Documentary photograph: a free medical check-up camp under a canopy, a doctor examining a patient while a volunteer notes details on a register, plastic chairs,

Environment & tree plantation

Planting is the easy half. We go back to water, to fence, and to replace what did not survive — because a tree that dies in June was only a photograph in July.

Cleanliness drives in parks and lanes, and sessions with schoolchildren who then look after the saplings nearest their own homes.

Documentary photograph: schoolchildren and volunteers watering young saplings along a roadside in Haryana, steel buckets and green leaves against dry earth, mor

Community welfare

Elderly people living alone, widows raising children by themselves, families no one visits — the work here is mostly presence: checking in, arranging what is missing, and making sure festivals are not spent alone.

Support during emergencies

A fire, a flood, an accident, a sudden illness. We do what can be done the same day — food, transport, arranging the right help — and we stay in touch afterwards, when the crowd has gone and the family is still standing in the wreckage.

Gallery

Days on the ground.

Documentary photograph: a volunteer carrying a stack of blankets across an open ground at dusk, warm low light, vertical framing
Documentary photograph: children seated on a mat receiving new notebooks, one child smiling at the book in their hands, soft daylight, vertical framing
Documentary photograph: hands pressing soil around a freshly planted sapling, close crop, earth tones and green leaf, vertical framing

This work runs on people, not budgets.

One morning of your time is worth more to us than most cheques.

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