Volunteer Social Services based on Karma Yoga Principals

Through participatory approaches with diligent care and supervision we try to guide our students to provide selfless services and prey to God that our involvement in welfare and social works will only bring the best out of all involved. We have chosen a methodology and adjusted it as we have gone along hoping it would prevent any abuse, laziness or crippling people’s potentials. Since 1998 to date this involvement provides hand on experience and opportunities for volunteer students and coworkers who have had the desire to perform acts of good intention and deed for their individual development in the path of yoga. We also believe in performing our institutional social responsibility.

Besides from the Yoga Institutes Reserved Fund, some donations were accepted with care through a completely separate financial system from registration and revenues. These funds were put in use with the help of students with our active participation under strict monitoring and evaluation and supervision only where and when:

• A helping hand could bring out their best potentials for a healthy life for hard working families and individuals by providing small grants for medical emergencies, education, boosting skill for job creation and hunting.
• We had strong local partners as individuals trusted by their communities in remote areas to help identify rural and small community students in need.
• We could participate in specific tasks and could supervise on the fund spending and quality, we become involved in specific projects with legal welfare organizations.
• Devastating natural disasters hit such as Bam earthquakes we tried to participate in relief aid and temporary settlement needs by working with organization in the area to assess specific needs and meet it to the point of participation in the process of ordering, delivery and installment of the required facilities as well as assessing the groups using them. Our students who are specialists in certain field have volunteered to help as specialists such as doctors, nurses, engineers, and so on asking advise from us.
• We could evaluate the assessed needs and have a say on the criterion of the improvement and fund spending, participated in school access road upgrading, class room creation, sanitary and playground improvements in small communities. More specific selected information is provided for six categories in the attached table. All entries and cases have original backup documents such as receipts, pictures, videos and such.

Payammehr Yoga Institute’s selected Participatory Social Work Activities

Table 1. Through Registered Welfare Institutions

Payammehr Yoga Institute’s selected Participatory Social Work Activities

Table 2. Grants / Loans & Educational Funds (EFs)

Payammehr Yoga Institute’s selected Participatory Social Work Activities

Table 3. Refugees/ Immigrants Support Funding’s

Payammehr Yoga Institute’s selected Participatory Social Work Activities

Table 4. Natural Disaster Funding’s

Payammehr Yoga Institute’s selected Participatory Social Work Activities

Table 5. Medical Aid Funding’s

Payammehr Yoga Institute’s selected Participatory Social Work Activities

Table 6. School Aid: Improvements, Upgrading Facilities