With the divine grace of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust in association with the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, India extends its support to the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre, Charitable Hospital in Leh, Ladakh, as part of the MediCare initiatives.

This joint initiative aims to equip the hospital with state-of-the-art medical equipment and infrastructure to revive the 40 bedded facility fully functional, significantly elevating the healthcare infrastructure in Ladakh.

The project will enable the Mahabodhi hospital to offer medical care to the local community fostering a healthier and happy society thus aligning their vision of uplifting humanity through compassionate service and selfless love.

The Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations India and has been rendering Seva in the Himalayan mountains of Ladkah Union Territory over the last two years with the support of the CRPF and Ladakh Police .

With the immense grace of Bhagawan Baba, a team of 29 members with 9 doctors this morning for a 3 day Medical Seva in Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh .

In the year 2022, a Buddhist International centre – Mahabodhi International Meditation centre founder President Venerable Bhikku SanghaSena met the team of the Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations, India while they were on Medical Seva in the year 2022.

Immensely blessed by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba,in the year 1985 , Venerable Bhikku SanghaSena was directed by Bhagwan to take up the path of Seva.

Reconnecting to Swami and the Mission of Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Venerable Bhikku SanghaSena visited the holy place of Prasanthi Nilayam in November 2022 during the National Youth Meet and in a meeting with the Managing Trustee and the All India President,he requested the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust to support in the relaunch of the Mahabodhi Karuna Charitable Hospital which was defunct for over 3 years during COVID.

The Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust in discussion with the All India President took a decision at lightening speed and approved the support in Phase 1.

August 4 witnessed the launch of the program in the presence of Ven.Bhikku Sanghsena, the UT Medical authority and the superintendent of the Govt Hospital, Brigadier Sanjeev Sharma, Chief of Medical services of Ladakh, Brigadier P Suresh , Commandant of Army Hospital, Ladakh, Major Sujatha Rao Chief Opthalmologist in the presence of media.

A letter of understanding was exchanged for the launch of the Project.

Soon after a medical camp by the visiting team was also held in the hospital amidst vedam chanting bhajans by the team. About 60 patients were seen on the day. After the program and the camp, the camp left for Namayur at 630 pm, a 3 hour drive in the mountain ranges for the next days camp in Skurbuchan in a police bus specially arranged by Ladakh Police .

The day ended with Shanti Mantram

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For an investment of ₹4.54 Crores, the Sri Sathya Sai Vocational Training Centres have been
able to train 30,000+ youth who, based on the average income data generated in this
study, now have the potential to generate ₹286 crores per year. This is an impressive
achievement on multiple counts:

• The financial inputs to achieve such a figure are reasonably modest due to the
  organisation’s emphasis on volunteering by highly accomplished and skilled personnel.
• Sa mitis absorb a chunk of other costs like rent and other expenses.
• The student does not pay anything to be trained and therefore has zero monetary
  constraints to access the training.
• The cost per trainee is extremely modest when compared to other national
  programmes.
• The youth being benefited are from both urban and rural areas (where, especially,
  earning a steady income outside of agriculture is a difficult task);
• The intangible gains for the trainees are substantial: Samiti members take personal
  interest in mentoring the trainees, spending time with the youth and sharing their
  knowledge.
• Finally, and more importantly, the trainees are able to eam an income and support their
  families, which can be a game changer for them and their families, allowing them to
  stay in their homes if they wish to, instead of migrating to cities in search of jobs.

The benefits of the Sri Sathya Sai Vocational Training Programmes therefore are
economic and social, psychological and spiritual. Profiles of a few trainee
graduates give us a glimpse of such benefits.

The various district level SSSSO units incurred an expenditure of ₹4.54 crores while training
30,187 candidates between 2014 and 2019.

Of the ₹4.54 crores expenditure, 58% was spent towards Tailoring programmes (₹2.63 crores}
followed by 26% for Computer Courses ( 1 .18 crores), and 15% for Plumbing, Electrical and
Mechanical category (68lakhs}. Some Centres offer multiple skills, and hence the expenditure
cuts across skill categories where multiple skills are offered.The expenditure breakup is in line with the trainee numbers by category: 64% of the trainees
are in the Tailoring domain, 21% in Computer Courses and, 5% in Plumbing, Electrical and
Mechanical. The other skills being offered such as Spoken English, Food Processing or
Agri-based Products are low-resource requirement categories (e.g. for machinery, training
space, maintenance costs and raw materials} and therefore, even though 11% of the
trainees have undergone training, the expenditure is quite low ( 1 %} .SSSSO Samitis consist of a large pool of committed and qualified volunteers (Seva Dais) who
undertake all organisational activities as an opportunity for selfless service. Thus, 71% of the
trainers across programmes are volunteers who accept no remuneration. This is reflected in
the trainer salary costs: only 14% of the costs over the last five years are salary costs for
trainers hired for the specific skill type. Volunteers from the Samitis assist the trainers where
required.Operational expenses like rent,
electricity and maintenance form
the bulk of the expenditure (40%).
Raw materials for the training are
a fifth of the expenditure. Based
on the expenditure reported, the
per-trainee cost is extremely
modest.


Volunteer and Paid Trainers fry Skill Type

Based on employability figures of trainees
from 37% of Centres, the earning numbers
for 30,000+ trainees of the Sathya Sai
Vocational Training Centres have been
calculated. The potential earnings of all
trainees are calculated based on the
average monthly salaries I wages reported
for their categories. Next, the employability
percent (trainees employed or
self-employed] reported by 37% of the
Centres is used to calculate potential
earnings only for that percent deemed
employed or self-employed out of the
total sample. These calculations give a fair
idea of the potential and actual earnings
of the trainees.

To summarize the learnings from the
above figures:

• If all the trainees were employed I
  self-employed, they would earn ~24
  crores per month I ~286 crores per year.
  These are potential earnings of the
  trainees.
• Based on the reported employability
  percentages for each skill type, actual
  average trainee earnings amount to ~8
  crores per month I ~96 crores per year.

As discussed earlier, since employability numbers are not known for all centres/trainees,
~96 crores per year is a conservative estimate, and earnings per year range from ₹96
crores to ₹286 crores at highest rate of employment. Since government training programmes
also demonstrate employability rates of 30-40% or lower in some cases, this is a
reasonable calculation of potential and actual earnings of the graduate trainees.