Sevalaya is a registered charitable Trust established in 1988, head quartered in Chennai and doing charitable activities in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Tenkasi, Kanchipuram, Trichy , Thirunelveli, Thanjavur districts and Puducherry. They run free school, hospital, medical centres, mobile medical services, community colleges, old age homes, organic farming, gaushala, tuition centre and many other services to the orphan and destitute children, rural youth, senior citizens and animals. The organization is professionally managed and is governed by a Board of Trustees drawn from industry and social sectors, with a deep commitment to social development. Sevalaya draws its inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and the patriotic poet Mahakavi Subramania Bharathiyar and their philosophies.

Vision

The vision of Sevalaya is to serve the poor and transform them in to an equitable, happy and fulfilled society with an improved quality of life.

Mission

• Sevalaya’s mission is to offer high quality inputs and services free of cost. Ensuring excellent education, life skills, physical and mental wellbeing as also character building, to prepare children for responsible and happy lives
• Caring for the elders and ensuring their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, for them to lead their lives with dignity
• Capability enhancement of the poor, for self-sustaining livelihood
• Rural development, leading to creation of model villages
• Relief and rehabilitation interventions in response to natural calamities
• Leadership and capacity enhancement of NGO sector

Values

• Service and sharing
• Equality
• Moral uprightness
• Excellence
• Transparency

All their services are rendered absolutely free of charge, without any discrimination on caste, creed, religion, or gender

• Providing free food on a daily basis to destitute children and senior citizens
• Offering periodic medical check-up, generic medicines and health awareness sessions, besides specialized medical camps.
• Transformation of 40 villages from 100% Child Labour to 100% Literacy
• Designing of women only vocational skill development courses like tailoring, lab assistant, beautician to improve the living of rural families and also to improve gender equality.
• Equipping the Kasuva centre with 100MW of solar energy which is providing nearly 80% of the power consumption.

Sevalaya has been serving the rural underpriviledged communities for 3 decades. The heart of their operations is in Kasuva village, Thirunindravur, 45km west of Chennai. Once largely inhabited by brick kiln labourers, whose children often accompanied them, the area has been transformed into a vibrant community, where child labour has been totally abolished in Kasuva and the surrounding 40 villages. Over the past few years the school strength has topped 2100, more than half of them are girls. The dropout ratio (those who pass 12th standard out of all LKG entrants) is less than 2% and the school pass percentage among this 1st generation of school goers range between 99% to 100%. Over 1500 Sevalaya students have passed 12th standard since 2005. All of them are either employed or pursuing higher education. It has housed and shaped the lives of 500+ Orphans. Given shelter and dignity to 225 destitute elders. Free skill-based education facilitating employment to 3000+ rural youths. 200+ awareness programs have been conducted since 1994 benefitting 12,000+ teens the subjects cover safety of self, social behaviour and how to manage outside the world. Sevalaya has travelled across several districts of TamilNadu since 1988 and has provided moral education to nearly 50,000 students based on life lessons of Mahakavi Bharathi, Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda.9,000+ villagers assured safe drinking water every day via reverse osmosis plants installed. Construction of community toilets in 3 villages has improved the hygiene and sanitary conditions making them open defecation free and have also brought dignity to the lives of the villagers. Over 150 legal consultation sessions have been conducted for the villagers, to help them draft petitions and guide them to approach the appropriate authorities, depending on the issues faced by them. Thereby Sevalaya is committed to its mission, has great project execution skills, sucessful track record, operates with full transparency and has owns 70+ awards and recognitions. All this combined making it a credible and reliable organization to partner with.