Sathya Sai Centre of Saskatoon has contributed towards the city’s ‘Meals on Wheels’ program for the past 30 years. Every day, the city-wide program provides up to 200 meals that are delivered on 16 separate routes; while, frozen meals are delivered once a week for weekends and holidays. The meals are prepared at five separate sites: The Saskatoon City Hospital, Saskatoon Convalescent Home, Parkridge Centre, Extendicare, and the Sherbrooke Community Centre. It came to our attention that the City Hospital was looking for volunteers to deliver food to clients on some of the routes. Devotees from the Sai Centre volunteered for this service activity a number of years ago and this relationship and the service to the community has continued ever since.

On a typical Friday day, four to five volunteers carry out the service of collecting and delivering the meals to 13 clients. The volunteers find a lot of gratification from serving the community from the warm smiles to the faces of appreciation as they unpack their hot meals. Any service that is related to serving of food is very close to the hearts of devotees. It rekindles memories of Swami’s Grama Seva. It is one of Swami’s earliest mass service activities that served the hundreds if not thousands of villages by devotees. Images of Swami Himself lifting a ladle full of rice inspires devotees across the world to continue to serve in His image. The Sai Sathya Sai Centre of Saskatoon is committed to continuing our Meals on Wheels program. As we serve, we transform.

Another activity that the centre has been supporting since the early 1990s is the Milk Bag Project at the Pleasant Hill School. The activity was initiated by one of our senior devotees who has been working at the Pleasant Hill School as a volunteer in teaching Human Values for the past several years. She brought it to our attention that at the Pleasant Hill School being an Inner-City School, many children arrive with empty stomachs. The school initiated a program where breakfast is served to a select number of children who look forward to the meals before school starts. The school requires 15 jugs (4L Jugs) of milk per week and they serve about 95% of the students with breakfast and lunch. The Sathya Sai Centre of Saskatoon has been contributing $60 per month towards their milk program for over 25 years and we are committed to continue this service.