ICC Sevathon 2024 – Make a positive impact

Voice Of a Child is proud to partner with India Community Center (ICC) at Sevathon 2024, their 16th annual 5K – 10K – Half Marathon – Yogathon – Dance-a-thon event! Sevathon is scheduled to take place on Sunday, August 25th, 2024 at Vasona Park in Los Gatos.

What is Sevathon?
Sevathon is an India Community Center (ICC) initiative that helps nonprofit organizations like ours to fundraise for our causes, and your registrations and contributions will help benefit Voice Of a Child’s initiatives.

How to Register?
Registering for Sevathon, choosing the event you want to participate in, and supporting Voice Of a Child is easy.

Go to https://runsignup.com/Race/Register?raceId=144899&coupon=SPECIAL10 and follow the straightforward registration process. During registration, please select Voice of a Child from the drop-down menu as your supported charity.

Use the promo code “SPECIAL10” during checkout to get 10% off ANY races/events (excludes Senior Pricing, Youth Pricing, and Virtual Runs), valid till July 25, 2024.

This event not only promotes fitness and well-being but also empowers you to support Voice Of a Child and a cause that truly resonates with your beliefs. We invite you to register and participate in Sevathon 2024, all while helping us raise funds for Voice Of a Child. 100% of your donations go directly to fund our projects.

Please encourage your friends, family, and colleagues to join Sevathon as well. Together, we can amplify our impact and make a difference. We look forward to seeing you at Sevathon 2024!

Target Project for Sevathon 2024

Funds raised during Sevathon 2024 will be used to support the Abha Seva Sadan Hospital project situated in Purulia district, West Bengal, one of the most impoverished and underdeveloped regions of India. The area is predominantly populated by tribal villagers who face significant challenges such as lack of education, chronic diseases, and malnutrition.

For the villagers, Abha Seva Sadan Hospital is a vital lifeline for their medical needs, as the nearest alternative hospital is 25 kilometers away. Established in 1963, Abha Seva Sadan currently serves over 100,000 people from 85 surrounding villages, providing essential healthcare services to this marginalized community.

Check out more about the hospital from the video below.

You can donate to our cause from the Sevathon Race website using the following button. 100% of your donation goes towards the renovation of the Abha Seva Sadan Hospital.

Scroll down or click the links below to read about our other currently active projects.

AMURT Nigeria | Every Life Counts Campaign

You can bring critically needed emergency care to mothers and children in Nigeria. Your gift to the “Every Life Counts” emergency assistance program saves lives. We work together to reduce mortality among the most vulnerable: pregnant women, newborn babies and children.

Since our partner organization, AMURT Nigeria, started in Ebonyi State in 2010, supporters like you have been making healthcare accessible in the most remote and neglected rural villages in one of Nigeria’s poorest regions. Many lives have been saved. Your gift is applied directly and exclusively for emergency assistance to ensure that no lives are lost for lack of financial means.

Voice Of a Child has been a key partner of AMURT Nigeria since 2013. We have funded the purchase of multiple ultrasound machines and other medical equipment, worked very closely with Rotary Club Cupertino (California) and helped acquire a brand new ambulance and has been a major donor towards the “Every Life Counts” yearly fund-raising campaign.

Kindergarten and Computer Institute, Turkey

After the devastating earthquake that struck parts of Turkey in February of 2023, Voice Of a Child partnered with grassroots-level organizations and started the following projects.

White Lotus Technology Institute – This institute imparts Computer and English classes free of charge for the local impoverished population. The first batch of 30 students (male and female) graduated the 3-month course in September 2023 and the second batch started in November 2023.

Golden Lotus Kindergarten – All the planning and funding for the opening of this cost-free kindergarten school has been completed and it is scheduled to open on December 1, 2023.

Women’s College, West Bengal, India

Voice Of a Child has partnered with Uma Nivas, a women-managed community development service for the construction of a new building for the women’s college. The project is located in one of the poorest and most backward areas of Purulia district in West Bengal, India.

The new building opened for the academic classes in January of 2022 after four years of construction. Academics, including courses in computer, dance and music classes are provided free of cost to the neighboring indigent population.

Uma Nivas’ services started in 1978 with a small school. Since then Uma Nivas’ service projects have steadily grown to six primary schools, a girls’ high school, two medical clinics, a music college, and student hostels providing education and health care to hundreds of children, women and families.

We hope to provide economic well-being to the community by providing free or low-cost educational opportunities. Your contribution will assist with the staff salaries for the instructors of the women’s college and scholarships for the needier students.

Evergreen School, Kerala, India

Voice Of a Child in association with Neo-Humanist Education Charitable Trust started this school in 2006. The school’s goal is to impart ‘true holistic education’ at an affordable cost to the children of lower and middle income families who live in the area. The school started with 18 children in its Kindergarten Program in the first year and currently have 140 children from Pre-School to 4th grade, and 14 full-time staff members.

The construction of the second level of our new school building was completed in January 2023. We now have a full-fledged 6000 sq ft building, with large classrooms, library, activity room, computer lab and meditation room. Evergreen’s unique ‘Circle of Love’ curriculum imparts character building values – integrity, moral courage, self-confidence, self-reliance and a spirit of service.

Your contribution towards this project will be used for the purchase of new computers and multi-media equipment. It will also be used for subsidising the tuition fee for families who cannot afford to pay the nominal fees charged by the school.

ICC Sevathon 2024