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Emblem of Bharat Seva Ashram Bharat Sevashram SanghaBharat Sevashram Sangha is a Hindu charitable non-governmental organisationin India.
The Sangha has hundreds of ashrams in India and other countries including
the United Kingdom, United States, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Fiji and Bangladesh.
It has initiated several missions to African countries, Malaysia, and Indonesia; monks from the Sangha have accompanied United Nations delegations to Syriaand Lebanon.
The Sangha is recognized for their community work, helping poor and providing healthcare to those in need.
The Sangha has responded to natural calamities in Andhra Pradesh and Orissastates, the Bengal famine of 1943, the Bhopal disaster, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
At times of political unrest such as the Partition of India, the Sangha has set uprefugee camps and war evacuee camps in the border areas.
One such project involved providing schooling for children of the Sabar tribe and providing them with housing and healthcare.
Following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the Sangha's monks proposed toset up a school for orphans at a cost of Rs. 4250,000s, an orphanage at Rs.6020,000, and 200 houses at Rs.30 millions on the Andaman and NicobarIslands.
In Tamil Nadu state, where the tsunami killed more than 7,000 in the districtsof Cuddalore, Nagapattinam and Chennai, the Sangha was one of the first to begin massive relief operations by building nearly 200 new houses at Sonankuppam village in Cuddaloer.
The Sangha actively provides shelter, food, medical treatment and public safety services to pilgrims at various places of worship and religious fairs in India, such as the Kumbha Mela.