Building Self Reliant Rural Communities in India

Dear Friends, As Seva Mandir has now helped establish over 700 village groups, this is an historical year for us. We thank you dearly for helping us get this far, and hope you will remain by our side as we continue to grow. Below is an update on our Village Institution Program, and the progress we have made in the past year...

Dear Friends, "Sangthan me takathai" (The sense of community is powerful). This month, we bring you the story of how in the village of Jamun, the sense of community fostered with the help of Seva Mandir support is very powerful. Jamun is situated in the dense forests of Aravali region and comes under Jhadol Tehsil of...

Hello Friends, I am here again to share with you happiness, light and tranquility on this Diwali from all the 55,000 families you are helping through this project. Diwali is a festival of lights and candles. It symbolizes the fact that there is more good in us than bad and that we all have to keep working on it. This is...

We would like to thank you for your extending support to our project. This year, the project “Building Self Reliant Rural Communities in India” has seen many incredible triumphs and we wish to share some of these with you. Please find attached our Annual progress report for 2012 and a brief summary below. We...

We would like to thank you once again for your continuing support and faith in our work! Your valuable donations have been crucial in helping us make a great difference in people’s lives here in Rajasthan. We are thrilled to announce that one of our photos has been selected to feature in the Photo Contest 2012...

Dear Friends, Greetings from Seva Mandir! Hope you are well. The monsoon has delayed here. The pre-monsoon rain two days ago was very refreshing and we are hoping have a great monsoon despite that our summer was not too hot this year. We will keep you posted on it. With this letter I like to share with you about the...

Dear Friends, Hope you are well and have enjoyed a great Easter this year. I am writing to share with you the half yearly progress report for the project you are supporting – Building Self Reliant Rural Communities in India.  he project aims to foster democratic village institutions through the creation and...

Dear Friend, I very much hope that you are enjoying the holiday season. From all of us here at Seva Mandir, a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to you. May 2012 brings peace and success to you and to your family. We thank you for your kindness that you gift us always. With this letter, we love to share some key highlights...

Dear Friends,Greetings from Seva Mandir!Hope you are well. Thank you for supporting many rural communities of Udaipur, India. As you may know that your support towards this project strengthens their efforts. With this letter, I would like to share with you a brief note that my colleagues have put together of various...

Dear friends, Hope you are well. Thank you for your continuing support. We are very grateful to you donations and inputs . Every time with our letter to you, we wish to acquaint you with Seva Mandir a bit more. In this letter, you will get to know about the process of our business planning. Seva Mandir focuses on...

Dear Friends, Greetings from Seva Mandir!! I have three things to say before we talk about the project you are supporting. One -we recently participated in a fund raising event on Global Giving UK. The challenge Top 10 wins challenge (1st to 14th March) required the participant projects to raise at least of £ 500...

Wishing you a very happy, prosperous and wonderful 2011. Thank you friends for extending peace, love and support to all of us in 2010. We look forward to another great year with you. Year by year, our association is getting stronger. Thank you very much for adding happiness to our lives. A small drawing made by Durga...

Dear Friends, Happy Holiday Season! Hope you are enjoying the holiday season. This year the winter started a little later here but it is pleasantly cold right now. We hope it is also nice weather where you are. Thank you for supporting the village communities of Rajasthan. Building self reliant rural communities is an...

Dear Friends, Thank you very much for your continuing support. You will be very happy to note that the monsoon has turned out very good in Rajasthan this year. It has rained almost every day this monsoon which is unusual to our region. Usually we receive 20 rainy days in the monsoon. One of the most popular lakes in...

Dear Friends, First of all, a very big thank you for your continuing support to this program. I am writing to provide you with a brief description of what the Village Development Program is and how it helps achieve these communities their goal of being ‘self reliant’. I will attempt to give you a short overview...

December 7, 2009 Dear Friend, Greetings from Seva Mandir! Many thanks to all of you for responding to our call of support during ‘Give More and Get More’ Challenge. We did quite well in the challenge and you would be happy to note that we stood third with receiving over $35,000 across various projects. The...

It’s the season for Thanks and Giving…and we hope very much that you will continue your support to Seva Mandir. We wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity that we are participating in through our partners, Global Giving. A donation made to any of our projects, on Global Giving between November 10 and...

August 13, 2009 Greetings from Seva Mandir! Dear Friends, Thank you for your continuing support to our programs. I am writing to share with you a bit of news. Seva Mandir has recently won a Development Marketplace Grant Competition, organized by the Word Bank. The competition was exclusively for grassroots...

May 19, 2009 Dear friends, First of all, thank you for supporting us ever! I have some quick news to share. In April end (22nd and 23rd) Margaret and John from Global Giving visited Seva Mandir Projects. We took them around and showed them our work in four villages. We exchanged a lot of ideas and learnt a lot...

Dear Friend, Greetings from Seva Mandir! Thank you for your continuing support to our programs. I am writing to share with you some good news. On 27th March 2009 Seva Mandir was awarded the first prize ‘The CSO partner’s Outstanding Annual Report Award 2009’ for our Annual Report 07-08 in the category of Large...

January 27, 2009 Dear Friend, New Year Greetings from Seva Mandir! Thank you very much for all your support to our programs. I am Deepti and I look after the Reporting and Communication Program in Seva Mandir. I will be staying in touch with you regularly to keep you updated about the program that you have been...

Dear Friend, Greetings from Seva Mandir! I would like to communicate our heartiest thanks to all our donors, friends and well wishers for supporting our Village Institution Program. Your support and faith in our work is very encouraging. I have been working in this program for the past fifteen years. My work has...

Bhuri is an active member of Gram Vikas Committee (Village Development Committee) of village Dholi Ghati. Close to her village the highway road was being under construction. The contractor of the road-construction project needed water for it and he requested the village. In a Village Meeting it was decided that the...

The Gram Vikas Committees (GVC) or the village development committee of village Ushan has now been able to resolve local conflicts on its own. They even deposited the benefits earned from the fodder of the common pasture land into their GVK... There was a small piece of common pastureland in village Ushan, which was...