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Thankyou" which is dedicated to provide connection,  Reduce and Recycle”. For example, youth volunteers
          comfort, and hope through its innovative programs,  can conserve by cutting down their showers, planting
          services, and materials to children facing illness and  drought-resistant  trees,  not  overusing  lights,  walk/
          their  families supporting them.  Our  volunteers  did  bike as much as possible, and recycling their materials!
          various tasks such as 1. Cutting the strip cloth; 2. Hot
          pressing labels on each blankets; 3. Bundling all the      VT         Seva          Bay         Area
          blankets neatly and stack in covers & boxes; 4. Folding   Composting Activity
          blankets; 5. Organizing warehouse blankets storage          VT Seva Bay Area had its monthly compost
          boxes. 6.Finally the work area was cleaned. On the    gardening  activity during the  month  of  November.
          whole we all worked on 1000 blankets which are ready   Our volunteers composted things like apple cores,
          for use to children in hospitals.
                                                                Lettuce, Cardboard, paper bags and much more!
                                                                Towards the end of the month volunteers sent pictures
                                                                of how their compost had been going, through this,
                                                                volunteers also learned the environmental benefit and
                                                                impact of composting!


                                 VT                              VT Seva Bay Area Letters to
                                                                Seniors


                                                                     Monthly Letters to Seniors activity in November.
                                                                Our youth volunteers wrote interesting and captivating
               VT Seva Bay Area Green                           letters to please a friendly senior. The letters later got
                           Initiative                           mailed to citizens in Ohio to read and enjoy!


                 For one of VT Seva Bay Area’s Environmental
          Services events in November, we had our first green
          initiative activity! Youth volunteers are encouraged
          to partake in conservative measures through “Reuse,


































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