While doctors provide medical help, a large number of non-medical volunteers assist in execution of our various projects and activities.

Corporate-driven Health Projects:

Adolescent Health Awareness Program(AHAP): Foundation is laid in childhood and personality is raised in adolescence. Youth for Seva started AHAP sessions to help adolescents to become better healthy, responsible citizens of India. Our program is designed with sessions to address the change in adolescence and mental health, peer pressure, addiction, and counselling for students.

Nutrition Kits: As schools shut down, so did the options of mid-day meals. These school going children were denied quality and nutritious food for months. For thousands of children from low-income families, hot milk and meals under the school feeding program had been the only source of nutritious food. To address this issue and build strong immunity for these children, our volunteers visited numerous schools across India to identify who could benefit from nutrition kits and then proceeded to distribute them to the children personally. The meals were thoughtfully planned to contain all necessary food groups like cereals, rice, grains, vegetables and legumes to boost their immunity during these tough times.

Our present environment is what we have received from our forefathers, and it is our responsibility to leave it intact to our next future generation. Rising to the occasion, YFS organizes many new and innovative environment-centric programs across all our chapters.

Harisru Aahara & Hasiru Arogya began in 2013 as an initiative to bring back awareness about our traditional foods and the importance of following them.  Health has been of major concerns for the past few years now. This leads us to the question of why are we facing these?

Is it lifestyle disorders or the food we consume or both?

Here at Hasiru Aahara, we are on a drive to rejuvenate the lost food wisdom, culture and take forward the cuisine & culture to the next generation.  Many years before packaged food arrived, food was always considered both nourishment and medicine, to our body, but the way we eat today, by contrast, is vastly different.  Traditional food were initially only local, seasonal produce and was consumed according to that particular region and climate. It is our motive to bring back the same methods into food habits of growing and cooking the local, seasonal produce.  In order to bring back the lost sync with our culture, climate and cuisine and also to ensure our next generation make healthy choices, its important that we start by choosing these food and lifestyle ourselves and live them.

Give Paper Back project was started in the year 2016 in a small way, and it is an unique initiative as it aims to reuse the unused sheets of a notebook to make new notebooks after completion of the current academic year. It focuses on reducing resources required to make new notebooks and strengthens the idea of refurbishing..

Plantation Drives:  Our environment needs to be replenished and it is up to us to take care of giving back to mother nature. We conducted multiple plantation drives across the country. We engaged volunteers in seed ball making, sapling plantations and reforestation in different regions. On the occasion of World Environment day we conducted drives with a diverse crowd of students, corporate volunteers, partners and college volunteers.

Livelihood:  YFS has also been leading activities towards a greener future from its inception. Activities like sapling plantation drives, initiatives to nurture the planted saplings, making seed balls, cleanathons and installing water feeders for birds have been organized by engaging volunteers. YFS has also promoted echo-friendly celebrations during Holi, Diya making and making our own clay Ganesha for Ganesha Chaturthi and so on.

Meera Garments:  In our pursuit towards development and employment, YFS started Meera Garments, a project with an objective to empower rural women financially. We started the project in Baad Village, Dharwad district, Karnataka, with good quality training. These ladies with our professional training have already started to produce fine finished shirts, masks, uniforms, and blouses and this result has overwhelmed and motivated us greatly to continue providing training to new batches. 

Sewing Machine Center:   YFS has started sewing machine training centers in Diddige, Kurabagatti, and Hunasikumari Villages in Dharwad, Karnataka, to improve economic conditions of these villagers. These projects will support the households of many people in need and make them self-sufficient. This is a part of our livelihood project which supports individuals by providing them relevant skills that create opportunities for employment.

Covid-relief: