All our guests are encouraged to participate in one Community Feeding Exercise during their stay. This includes picking vegetables, herbs and fruits from Shreyas’ Organic Farm, procuring other ingredients from the nearby village, cutting vegetables; assisting in preparing a meal, serving the food to the children or elderly in the village school/orphanage  and sharing their experiences with fellow guests.

Ongoing Project

Construction of toilets for the 40 inmates of the orphanage, Kaveri Vanitha Sevashrama.

Community Projects completed till now:

Apart from the above, Shreyas also enables a few Community Development Projects in the neighbourhood villages with the assistance of its Corporate clientele and individual guests. Some recent projects are:

(a) Rain Water Harvesting at 40 homes in Arjunabittahalli
(b) School Library building (Byrasettyhalli School)
(c) Compound Wall construction (Gollahalli Rural School)
(d) Toilets (Byrasettyhalli Primary School)
(e) Bore Well (Basavanahalli Rural School)
(f) School Children prepared 5000 seed balls to be sown on World Environment day (www.millionseedballs.org)

Rationale of the exercise

This exercise demonstrates how privileged we are with what we have. Also it provides us with an opportunity to understand and learn from life as it shows us a world that we are seldom exposed to. It awakens us to the hard realities of life that the less fortunate face.  

We may have an abundance of things to give but we need someone to receive them from us to make the cycle complete. That is a small lesson in humility, which can teach us to view ourselves as trustees and not doers.

Application of ‘serving to lead’ in real life