Charitable Contributions
The Sri Sathya Sai Easwaramma Women’s Welfare Trust makes charitable donations on a regular basis, and during special events. At the medical camps of the Women and Child Care Project, in addition to free medical care and medicines for the women and immunizations for the babies, the women are given a sari, a hygiene kit, a kilo of Sai protein powder (a nutritious mix of sprouted ragi, rice, and fried dal). Newborns are also given a baby kit that contains items such as clothes, blankets and toys. Water filters are also given out to the new mothers, and to the village schoolteachers who give up their classrooms for the medical camps.
During cultural programs sponsored by the Trust, poor women from 27 villages have been given 2,000 water filters, household items, and 200 solar lamps. 150 bicycles have also been distributed to poor village women. Since village women need transportation to get to their work and their children’s school for meetings, bicycle distribution has become an ongoing activity. At one function 80 cows were given to poor families. Each of the 80 ladies who received a cow also received a sari.
