Christmas is a time for giving and sharing. The youth girls will be sharing their love for the elderly by singing carols at a seniors' home on Christmas day. In addition to doing seva on Christmas day, the youth girls will also be helping children across the world in poor countries. Many children wake up to nothing on Christmas morning. Operation Christmas Child involves youth girls decorating and filling shoeboxes with small gifts for children in these poor countries to be opened on Christmas day.

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During the winter months, many Canadian citizens on the streets of downtown Toronto go to sleep hungry. During the month of January the youth girls will make sandwiches to be delivered to the homeless across the GTA. In addition, they will be holding an information session during bhajans to raise awareness for the OneMatch Bone Marrow Registration Event to be held in February.

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The youth girls will also be doing seva in the medical sciences. Get Swabbed is a national campaign where students join forces to help save lives by organizing bone marrow drives and raising awareness of the need for more people to register as donors.

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Baba says “True education is not for a mere living, but for a fuller and meaningful life.” Sai Baba has given us all the basic necessities to get an education. We are so grateful for his love and protection. Thousands of children across the world have the love for learning in their hearts, but due to war, poverty and natural disasters have lost the basic tools for education. In order to help these children, in the month of March, the youth girls will be making 108 school kits to send overseas. Schools kits will have pencils, pens, erasers and other school items children need.

Sai Baba says "Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God." It is our job as Sai youth to not only help others but also help keep Mother Nature healthy. To celebrate Earth Day, the youth girls will be planting trees either at a selected location.

The Sathya Sai School is a model private school, which provides students with an education that balances both academic excellence and character development. Every year the Sathya Sai School hosts the Walk for Values and needs all the help they can get in both planning and on the day of. The youth girls will help with various activities pertaining to the walk. Seva includes helping set up, cleaning, registration, Value Girls, post walk carnival and much more.

Many families don't have enough money to afford food. Youth girls will collect non-perishable food items at the center to give to the Daily Bread Food Bank. In addition we will also go down to the Food Bank and help sort and pack food to be given to the families.

The girls' youth group is filled with a diverse group of girls specialized in different areas. The youth girls will launch a tutoring program to help balvikas kids and children in the community with their schoolwork.

There are many shelters across the GTA that are in need of help over the year. Many underprivileged people go to shelters to obtain the basic necessities of survival. The youth girls will come together, cook and deliver food to a chosen shelter.

Sai Baba constantly emphasizes the importance of respecting one's elders. The youth girls will organize activities to do at various senior homes. We will plan games, debates and simply spend time with them throughout the month.

20 years back, 3 in 4 who were diagnosed with breast cancer passed away. Thanks to awareness and support from our community, today, 3 in 4 who are diagnosed survive. The CIBC Run for the Cure for Breast Cancer is a yearly event where participants gather and run with a single goal: for a future without breast cancer. The youth girls will also participate in the Enbridge CN Tower Climb which raises awareness and funds for the United Way.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) affects the brain and spinal cord and progressively damages one's mental and physical abilities. With the sad news of no cure or effective treatment and no depth of its root cause, approximately 2750 Canadians today strive to survive with this disease. The youth girls will help raise awareness of this disease. The artwork composed by Sai students will be made available to the ALS Society of Canada for future events related to ALS. ALS Understanding is a time for us to learn and understand the impact of this disease in our community and the research realm; to bring about motivation, determination, and faith to find a solution to the disease.