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Seva Cafe: Love All, Serve All

Anjali Desai

Anjali Desai is a volunteer at Manav Sadhna, an NGO based at Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, whose mission is to serve the underprivileged. Seva Cafe is one of its many projects in Ahmedabad.

Videos featuring Anjali Desai

  • Seva Cafe: Love All, Serve All

    Seva, or service, is the selfless giving of oneself for the betterment of others and the world around. At Seva Cafe, the concept of service takes the form of a "pay it forward" restaurant, where every meal is cooked and served with love.

    (4 min)
"We all move when one person has a realization, one person has an idea, when one person works, and it's just so interconnected that it's sort of adding to universal goodness around the world."
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Seva Cafe: Love All, Serve All
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Living Service

Jayesh Patel

Jayesh Patel is the co-founder and director of Manav Sadhna, an NGO based in the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India. Formed in 1990 with the mission to serve the underprivileged, Manav Sadhna now provides health and hygiene, education, and employment services to over 4,500 women and children through over 38 projects.

Videos featuring Jayesh Patel

  • Living Service

    Jayesh Patel, founder of the Indian NGO Manav Sadhna, shows us how the Gandhian principles inspiring the organization are put into practice in the vast slums of Ahmedabad. There are enough good ideas, says Jayesh; what is needed to make real change is the commitment to one another through humble service. Ultimately, it is heartfelt compassion and sincere spirituality that motivates effective service to humanity.

    (16 min 43 sec)
"Be like a ladder, not like a leader. If you become a ladder, then everyone develops themselves. And try to love all, serve all."
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Living Service
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Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam

Emmanuel is the project manager of the Niligris-Wynaad Tribal Welfare Society, a small NGO based on the borders of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Southern India. Emmanuel and his small and dedicated staff provide basic health care, education and support to four different tribal groups in the region.

Videos featuring Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam

  • The Importance of Trust

    Emmanuel Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, says the most important thing he's learned from his patients is that life cannot go on without trust. Working in a way that respects each person's individuality creates bonds of trust, which allows larger-scale transformation to take place.

    (4 min 39 sec)

  • "Global Village"

    Emmanuel Sumithran Gnanamanickam, a community leader and manager of an NGO providing services to tribal areas in South India, questions what is really meant by the term "global village." Until every person on the planet feels concern, appreciation, and accountability to every other person on the planet, Emmanuel asks, have we really earned the name Global Village?

    (2 min 48 sec)
"My will to make a change could be to respect every individual whom I meet, whom I work with, whom I interact with, for the person that he or she is."
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The Importance of Trust

The Importance of Trust

"Global Village"

Knowing How to Nurture Ourselves

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