Founded in 2007, this unit was formally registered as an NGO in 2017. Donations to Seva Bharathi Ernakulam town unit are eligible for tax deductions under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act

Over the years, it has developed a rich tradition of service:

• Blood donation camps conducted periodically
• Ambulance service with oxygen support for ferrying patients within city limits (presently under charge of district office)
• Free medical camp conducted every fortnight, plus awareness classes for lifestyle change
• Palliative care service: a boarding and lodging centre for patients from other districts, who are undergoing chemotherapy, or dialysis, or major surgeries, in hospitals in Ernakulam (relocating to Thammanam this financial year)
• Distribution of free medicines as per periodic requirements of patients

• Periodic conduction of free medical camps in colonies
• Conduct periodic classes under aegis of state body for Palliative care and Trauma care
• Career guidance classes with experts, for students studying in government schools
• Provide scholarships, free study equipment, books, and tuition to students
• Funding tuition fees of meritorious students
• Provide free breakfast to patients and their bystanders every weekday outside Ernakulam government hospital
• Constructed homes for five deserving families
• Anna Yojana: providing provisions to needy families every month
• Conducted self-reliance projects through sewing classes at tailoring institute
• The Ernakulam unit has a rich legacy of being first responders during natural disasters
• Over 100 volunteers have been trained in disaster management
• 2018 floods: Established three relief camps for the flood-affected, for over a month, providing emergency succour to over a thousand people.

• Rescue operations to save stranded citizens at multiple locations across Vypeen, Cheranelloor, Paravur, and Aluva
• Cleaning of citizens’ homes after flood waters receded
• 2020-22 Covid Pandemic: medicines, free food service and community kitchen, disinfectant fogging, oxygen concentrators, funerary services
• 2022 Idukki landslide: relief team dispatched on war footing, participated in rescue and relief activities
• Funding tuition fees of meritorious students
• Provide free breakfast to patients and their bystanders every weekday outside Ernakulam government hospital
• 2024 Wayanad landslide: Established relief material collection centre, and was the nodal point for collection of such material in district, and onward dispatch for Wayanad

Our forthcoming projects:

Immediate priority focus:

• Re-establishment of Ashraya Kendra palliative care centre at new location

Targets for 2025-26 (In order of priority and feasibility):

• Commissioning an ICU ambulance (benefactor’s firm offer in hand)
• Recommissioning and operating a defunct crematorium – to serve the under-served with dignity
• Empowering Transgenders – vocational training and funding for driving their own e-auto/ running a beauty salon/ working as a tourist guide
• Disaster management training using rich in-house experience and expertise

Mid-term focus:

• Vanaprastha Ashram: retirement and day-care home for the aged
• For women empowerment, setting up of centre to train them as attendants and caregivers, with placement opportunities
• Setting up of Electronics repair institute to promote self-reliance