Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust

Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust was [1] established by Sri Sathya Sai Baba, as a public charitable trust in 1972. The trust is responsible for the running of the spiritual centres(called ashrams) of Prasanthi Nilayam at Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh, India and Bridavan at the outskirts of the city of Bangalore, India. The trust following the guidelines of Sri Sathya Sai Baba's philosophy of Love All Serve All has been running many service projects in the fields of health and education since its inception. Towards the beginning the century the trust, on the directions of Sai Baba, took up the project for supplying safe drinking water to rural areas. All the services of the trust are provided completely free of charge.

Projects

Healthcare

The Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust runs five medical institutions:

All the medical institutions are free to all the patients irrespective of class, race, colour, ethnicity or nationality.

Water Supply

The Sri Sathya Sai Water Supply Project for Anantapur district was undertaken during the years 1995-97. Anantapur district being one of the most chronically drought affected areas in the country, where the available ground water has high fluoride content. It is in fact in the context of such high fluoride content that the project was designed to make use of surface water from the Tungabhadra Canal.[2]

Education

The trust runs schools and institutes of higher learning. There are four campuses associated with the education wing of the trust.

All education is provided completely free of charge to all the students.

Disaster Assistance

The trust played an active role in relief activities during the 2001 earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat and in the 2004 South Asian Tsunami.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sathyasai.org/ashrams/centraltrust.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.sathyasai.org/ashrams/centraltrust.htm#utility

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