The world of waste

Inspiring the Next Generation: “The World of Waste” Workshop Sparks Interest in Sustainability Careers

Timed strategically on a Henrico County Public Schools student holiday, the workshop welcomed dozens of eager middle and high school students ready to explore what sustainability truly means—and how they can be part of the solution.

On Monday, September 22, Love to Share Foundation America, partnered with the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority (CVWMA) to host “The World of Waste”—an interactive sustainability workshop at Twin Hickory Public Library in Glen Allen, VA.

Middle and high school students explored the importance of recycling and environmental responsibility through a hands-on mock waste sorting challenge .Many students were surprised at how often everyday items are improperly disposed of and how much trash each of us generate everyday, leaving the session more confident in their ability to recycle the right way. Participants also left with practical skills and a renewed awareness of how their daily choices impact the environment. Events like this reflect LTSFA’s mission to educate and inspire the next generation to become a thoughtful, environmentally conscious leader.

A highlight of the event was a talk by Bentley Chan, Director of Public Utilities for Henrico County, who shared how the county manages clean water access and why public service roles in sustainability are vital for the future.

LTSFA extends heartfelt thanks to the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority, Henrico County Department of Public Utilities, and all volunteers and families who made this workshop possible. Together, we are planting the seeds for a more sustainable future.

Food Donation at Woodruff park

Love to Share Foundation Hosts Food Donation Event at Woodruff Park

Atlanta, Georgia — September 14, 2025
The Love to Share Foundation organized a successful Food Donation Event at Woodruff Park, where nine dedicated volunteers came together to serve the local community.

During the event, volunteers distributed fresh meals to over 120 homeless individuals, offering nourishment, care, and support to those in need. The initiative highlighted the foundation’s ongoing commitment to addressing food insecurity and fostering compassion within the Atlanta community.

The Love to Share Foundation expressed gratitude to all volunteers whose time and effort made the event impactful and meaningful

Life And Soul - health fair at Houston - 2025

On September 13 2025, the morning dawned brilliantly with a prayer of gratitude for the opportunity to serve our beautiful community through Life and Soul 2025 at Houston. 💙

What an incredible day — a true reflection of collaboration, compassion, and purpose. Over 15 amazing organizations came together with one heart and one mission: to uplift and care for our community. Together, we screened nearly 200 community members in 4 hours, offering biometric screening, cardiovascular screening, thyroid and breast cancer screening, flu vaccinations, CPR demonstration, healthy cooking demonstration. a blood drive and a helmet drive.

To our selfless vendors, dedicated volunteers, and passionate community leaders — THANK YOU.

Let this be the start of a powerful year of connection, healing, and hope.

Supporting miracle league event

Love to Share Foundation America Volunteers Support Miracle League Event in Raleigh

Raleigh, North Carolina — September 6, 2025
Volunteers from Love to Share Foundation America spent the day lending their support to the Miracle League in Raleigh, creating a memorable and uplifting experience for children with special needs as they enjoyed a day of baseball.

Throughout the event, volunteers assisted players across the field—helping them bat, run bases, stay safe, and most importantly, have fun. Their encouragement at every step contributed to an inclusive, energetic atmosphere where each child felt supported and celebrated.

The foundation expressed its gratitude for the opportunity to participate in a program dedicated to ensuring every child can play, belong, and experience the joy of the game. A heartfelt thank you goes out to all the volunteers whose dedication and compassion made a meaningful difference in the lives of the young athletes.

Click here to check out the video of the event.

RISE AND CONNECT 5K

Greener Spaces: Love to Share Volunteers Join Keep Henrico Beautiful Project

Helping Hands Create Spaces Worth Celebrating!

LTSFA VA chapter had the opportunity, once again, to volunteer with the local organization, Keep Henrico Beautiful. The focus was on maintaining their native plant garden.

A team of a dozen volunteers worked together to keep the garden healthy and vibrant while learning about native plants and their role in the local ecosystem.

In addition to weeding, the volunteers assisted with mulching and watering the plants, further contributing to the garden’s upkeep. Overall, it was a fun and engaging experience for all involved.

Y2K Craft Weekend

Throwback in Style: Kimshuka Leads Y2K-Inspired Craft Weekend

Kimshuka recently organized a fun-filled, creative craft workshop inspired by the colorful and playful style of the early 2000s. Participants dove into hands-on projects that celebrated iconic patterns, vibrant hues, and nostalgic designs from that era. From creating personalized accessories to designing unique art pieces, everyone enjoyed expressing their creativity while reliving the joyful, carefree spirit of the early 2000s. The workshop fostered a lively environment where imagination and community came together through art and connection.

Human Biology Summer Series

Hari Leads a Fun and Interactive Biology Class

Hari recently conducted a six-week educational program on the human body for a 12-year-old student, with each week dedicated to exploring a different body system in detail. Each session featured a carefully prepared 15-slide PowerPoint presentation designed to present key functions, structures, and concepts in an age-appropriate yet comprehensive manner. To enhance engagement and reinforce understanding, Hari created a 40-question Kahoot quiz for every class, allowing the student to review and apply the material in an interactive format. Throughout the program, multiple human body systems were covered in depth, blending structured instruction with engaging activities to foster both knowledge retention and enthusiasm for human biology. The program not only strengthened the student’s understanding of anatomy and physiology but also encouraged curiosity and active participation in the learning process.

Intelligent Living Sessions

Maithreyi Inspires Excellence in Intelligent Living Sessions

Maithreyi led the LTSFA Enrichment Program, guiding students in developing communication skills, self-expression, and confidence through public speaking, active listening, storytelling, and strategies to overcome stage fright, while also launching classes in Python and Human Biology. Witnessing students overcome anxiety and engage more confidently was deeply rewarding, and parents shared positive feedback on their children’s growth. Inspired by LTSFA’s values of community service and youth empowerment, Maithreyi also recruited and organized a team of youth tutors, gaining valuable leadership experience and seeing firsthand the impact of student-led learning. This work reinforced Maithreyi’s belief that true leadership is about fostering community, promoting wellness, and inspiring change, with a goal of expanding the program nationwide to create a lasting ripple effect of confidence and capability.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

Python Coding Classes

Ready to learn Python? Join our friendly coding class to build skills, create projects, and boost your career. Visit us in the near future to enroll in our next class!

The Python course, organized and conducted by Love to Share Volunteer Nilay Arangil, introduced students to programming by starting with the basics, including how computers read code and perform simple actions like returning text or asking questions.

Topics Covered: Python Editors, Writing With Python, Manipulating Sentences(Strings), Working With Numbers, Variables, Reading User Inputs, If-Else Conditions, Lists, For Loops, While Loops, Sets, Tuples, Dictionaries, Functions, Modules.

Early projects focused on real-world problem-solving, such as building a calculator that could interpret word-based commands and return numerical solutions. As the course progressed, students advanced to topics like object-oriented programming and list manipulation, applying their skills to more complex challenges, including creating a cashier program that calculated totals with tax. By the end, students had gained both a strong foundation in Python and the ability to use coding as a practical tool for solving real-world problems, equipping them with skills to continue growing as programmers.

Earth Day – Issaquah, WA

Sandwich Sewa - San Jose, CA

Project Adam – A Youth Cardiac Screening Event with UC Davis Health

Empowering Gen Next – Atlanta, GA

Sandwich Seva in Bay Area, California

On February 24, volunteers in Bay Area, California came together to make sandwiches and donate them to Salvation Army in Modesto. Volunteers made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and packed them in lunch bag along with some fruits and water.

The lunch bags were then dropped at Salvation Army shelter in Modesto. There was already a line outside when volunteers got there to deliver the sandwiches. They were so thankful for this simple yet much needed meal.

LTSFA thanks all the volunteers who donated ingredients, helped to make the sandwiches, pack them and drop them off at the shelter.

Digital media workshop series

BUILDING A COMMUNITY AROUND FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM GROUPS

The Love to Share Foundation America hosted an online session on “Building a community around Facebook/Instagram Pages/Groups” on Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 led by Muthu Annamalai from Seattle, WA. The session started by covering the fundamentals of brand building including a discussion on how the marketing funnel is applicable when thinking about building communities on social media. The session then covered several strategies for how to generate and present content that will not only help grow a community but will also help with ensuring healthy engagement with existing.

Ranking Up on YouTube SEO Tips

On behalf of Love to Share Foundation America, Jayashri Jambu, a Digital Media Marketer, Content writer and E commerce specialist conducted a YouTube SEO workshop where she delved into effective strategies for ranking YouTube videos higher. It was an excellent session with active participation from the attendees. She organized this primarily for Love to Share social media volunteers.

2023 Life and soul health fair in Manvel, TX

Our 11th annual community health fair - Life and Soul, was a grand success thanks to the blessings of the Divine and the selfless efforts of all our volunteers, health service providers, and sponsors!

About 100 participants underwent Biometric screening - Body Mass Index, Blood Pressure, Blood glucose, Vision, Dental, EKG, Carotid Dopplers, Lung Function Test, Thyroid Ultrasound, Breast Exams, Chiropractic Evaluations and adjustments and Flu Vaccinations.

THANK YOU ALL for coming together for our community:

Texas Medical Association, Southeast Cardiovascular Associates Rajan Kadakia, Coastal Vascular Center, Perk Dental, H-E-B plus!, Kroger Pharmacy (Angleton), Alvin Community College (Respiratory Care), Premier Chiropractic, Walmart Vision Center (Pearland), Indian American Nurses Association of Greater Houston, Incarnate Homehealth, RecoverEase, The Monk's - Pearland, Biryani Express, Center Court Pizza & Brew - Pearland Original, Shipley Do-Nuts (Pearland), Costco Pearland, VVLS Tents, and Special guest City of Iowa Colony Mayor Wil Kennedy, AND all our enthusiastic volunteers from Love to Share Foundation America, Sai Primary Care Clinic, GOD Namadwaar Houston, the Pearland Indians Group & Pearland Desi Grp Volunteer Community, and our Youth participants of all ages!

Lemonade stand

My name is Gurudas Muthukaruppan. I am a 5th grader. This past summer I ran a lemonade stand for 3 days and raised around $3k for the Love to Share Foundation of America. In the lemonade stand, to make it interesting, we had a raffle with 5 prizes in it. The night before the first day of the lemonade stand we passed out flyers in a our neighborhood for about 50 houses. We had in our kitchen, popsicles, ice creams, Oreos and of course lemonade. On the last day of the lemonde stand, my friend and I went out on a scooter and bicycle around the community and passed out more fliers. Also the same day we annouced the raffle and gave out the prizes.

Book club in hopkinton

Introduction

Love to Share Foundation America contacted three 8th graders from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, to start a club. They all collectively started a Book Club. The Book Club would inspire children to be confident in their reading and writing capabilities.

Our Story

During the summer before 8th grade, Kashvi, Aanya, and I, (Akshadha) discussed hosting a club for elementary schoolers. Immediately, our minds went to a book club. As middle schoolers who love to read, the idea of inspiring young students to do the same, as well as helping them grow throughout their reading journey, was very exciting. We knew it would be challenging and would take a lot of planning and effort, but we persevered. We wanted this to be fun as well as educational. Book Club was one of our first opportunities to be leaders and showcase what we have learned as readers up until this point. We faced many challenges but stayed focused and committed. There were classes where we only had a few students interested. We also encountered many technical difficulties with Zoom. Some students couldn't turn their video/mic on., or we could not share their screen. These challenges encouraged us. We found ways to engage all the students by balancing fun games and activities along with lessons and writing prompts. The students were so eager to learn, and that made us optimistic to continue. Overall, we are delighted with how this club turned out. We can't wait until next summer.

At a glance

Topics

Elements of poetry such as onomatopoeia, personification, and similes.

How can one write stories efficiently?

Books

We read the book Front Desk by Kelly Yang. Front Desk is a perfect book for Middle and Elementary schoolers, and it incorporates many topics that would be useful during our lessons. We read several chapters each week and answered discussion questions about them. Throughout the club, we did many fun projects as well.

Love to Share Foundation

Overall, we could only have done this with the support of Love to Share Foundation. We are very grateful that we had this opportunity. Love To Share Foundation is helping many students improve themselves, and we are incredibly thankful that we could be a part of this.

Speech and debate club in hopkington

Mahathi Manikandan, Hopkington, MA

On behalf of Love to Share Foundation America, Mahathi Manikandan, conducted a speech and debate club this summer in her neighborhood to teach children not only to research a topic but also to write about it. The club focused on topics such as:

-Important vocab words in debate

-Writing an opening statement

-Writing and developing arguments

-Writing closing statements

Mahathi is a youth volunteer and middle schooler from Boston, Massachusetts. She also led the debate workshop to teach kids ranging from the ages of 8-10, Some of the issues debated were:

-Should middle schools have recess

-Should schools have more extended lunches

-Should schools start at a later time

Every week, 5-10 kids from Hopkinton would show up at my door eager to learn how to debate against their peers and become more confident with their speaking skills. Thus, the debate club would prepare them for future opportunities at school or speaking tournaments. This summer was my first time getting a chance to discuss a topic I enjoyed learning about. Every week, I had a good or not-so-good experience. Most of these experiences brought learnings with them. For example, when the kids would research a topic, sometimes they would present it very well, and sometimes, they could have been better, but I learned how they brought in different perspectives and what we could do to perfect a skill. Another challenge was the need for more communication, and I was curious if some kids would show up. I learned that if I initiated the contact, we could bridge that lack. My experience with the clubs had its ups and downs; it was one of a kind and something that I purely enjoyed and hope to continue next summer.