A morning, or a week
Cook, pack and deliver
The kitchen starts before most of Puttaparthi is awake. Chopping, cooking, filling the carriers and going out on the delivery round — this is where most hands are needed, every day of the year.
Get involved
There is always more to be done than hands to do it
You can serve for a morning, teach for an evening a week, or support a month of any one of these services. All of it helps, and none of it is too small.
Volunteer
Four ways to serve, in person
No experience is required for most of it, and no commitment is too short. Visitors to Puttaparthi often serve for a single morning.
One day a month
Help at the medical camps
On the 23rd of every month, three camps run side by side. Volunteers manage registration, guide patients between stations, and sit with those who are anxious or alone.
An evening a week
Teach an evening class
Around forty children come six evenings a week. If you can teach mathematics, English, science or basic computing — or lead a Sunday yoga session — there is a class waiting.
As you are able
Offer a professional skill
Doctors, optometrists, teachers, accountants, photographers, plumbers and electricians have all served here. Whatever you are good at, there is likely a use for it.
To volunteer
Write to us and tell us when you'll be in Puttaparthi.
A line with your name, the dates you are here and what you would like to help with is enough. We will write back with where to come and at what hour.
Contribute
Support the work from wherever you are
Everything the Kuteer offers is free at the point of need. It stays that way because people give. Here is roughly what a contribution becomes.
One day
of Narayana Seva
Lunch cooked and delivered to around 55 elderly and destitute people.
One camp
of eye care
Screening for 60–70 people, and surgery arranged for those who need it.
One month
of tuition
Evening classes and daily snacks for around 40 children.
One month
of water
RO-purified drinking water, free, around the clock, for over 1,000 families.
How to give
Please write to us, and we will send you the details.
Sri Sathya Sai Kuteer is a public charitable trust. Contributions may be made towards a particular service — a day of Narayana Seva, a monthly medical camp, a term of tuition — or left to the Trust to apply where the need is greatest.
Tell us in your message what you would like to support and in what form, and one of the trustees will reply with the account details and confirm the receipt.
Good to know
- Every contribution is acknowledged in writing.
- Contributions in kind — rice, dal, oil, provisions, medicines, school materials — are equally welcome.
- An annual activity report is published, so you can see what the year became.
- We do not solicit donations by telephone, and we will never ask for card details.
Or simply come and sit with us
The Geetha Homam is at nine every morning and anyone may join it. The 23rd of the month is the busiest and the most welcoming day to visit: three medical camps in the morning, and around twelve hundred people at lunch.
Thank you
Whatever you can give — an hour, a skill, a sum — is received here as seva.
Write to us at any time. We read every message ourselves.