Community Resilience Volunteer Week - Case Study: Sevalaya

• 08 Apr 2021
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In June this year, the BCI is holding the 3rd Community Resilience Volunteer Week (CRVW) which seeks to encourage business continuity and resilience professionals to participate in pro bono work to enable communities to benefit from their valuable skillsets. 

BCI member Daman Dev Sood FBCI has been working with one of his local organisations, Sevalaya, to improve their resilience and business continuity plans. Daman has committed to delivering regular lectures for them on business continuity awareness with the first one happening on 27th March. In the lead up to CRVW Daman will be contributing one session per month with risk management, crisis management and organisational resilience the next topics scheduled. He has also offered to help them create business continuity, risk and crisis management plans.

Sevalaya is a registered charitable Trust established in 1988, head quartered in Chennai and doing charitable activities in Chennai, Tiruvallur, Tenkasi, Kanchipuram, Trichy, Tirunelveli, Thanjavur, Nilgiris, Chengalpet districts and Puducherry. We 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 Subramaniya Bharathiyar and their philosophies.

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

Their values are;

• 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.

If you would like to be involved with CRVW either as a volunteer or as an organization please click here for more information.