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ORGANIZATIONS

Sewa International

rules, and, to keep ourselves in good physical
MAJOR PROJECTS
• Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation: about 20 and emotional health. This requires a great
major disaster relief operations deal of self-restraint (‘sanyam’).
• Family Services • Sahakar or Cooperation: In these challenging
• Health and Wellness Program times, it is the duty of all community
• Educational and Awareness Program organizations to encourage its members
• Sewa Family Case Management Services to confront these challenges by pooling
• Volunteer Development resources and creating an internal support
• Sewa Day network. Organizations can do this by actively
• International Yoga Day fostering cooperation (‘sahakar’) amongst its
• Days of Volunteering members and committing them to solidarity.
• Sewa Internships
• Yuva for Sewa • Sahayog or Collaboration: All of us are feeling
• Doctors for Sewa the impact of this ubiquitous pandemic. A
• Development number of organizations are working tirelessly
• Bhutanese Empowerment to face these challenges. By creating a
• International Development Projects framework of collaboration (‘sahayog’)
• National Institute of Media Communication organizations can scale up effectiveness by
and Research (NIMCaR) sharing best practices and learning from each
• Sponsor a Child other. Ultimately, this will result in a more
• Public Hygiene, Empowerment robust support system increasing the reach
and quality of service to our community.

IMPORTANCE OF DHARMIC WORK FOR
HUMANITY:
In these times of the coronavirus pandemic,
Sewa International started the Sewa Sankalpa
initiative knowing that community organizations
would be at the forefront of serving in this
unprecedented situation where the whole world
has been affected. We believe that our response
to the pandemic and to the times ahead would be
best served by following these principles:
• Sanyam or Self-restraint: To contain and defeat
this menace individually and collectively, we
have to be in disciplined isolation, observe the

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