Give

Sanghamitra does not take money. Here is how to give anyway.

Sanghamitra has never accepted a donation. When an audience presses money on a Harikatha or Burrakatha performer, the old Telugu storytelling forms, after a session, every dollar goes to the artist. When a child in India needs school fees, the fee is paid to the school, never handed to a family. What Sreenivasa asks of people is older than any of this: give a tenth of what you earn back to society, and give it somewhere you are sure of.

Sreenivasa Ainapurapu receiving an award for community service from the North America Telugu Society, 27 January 2013
Receiving an award for community service from the North America Telugu Society, 27 January 2013.
Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematricks Club children with Sreenivasa at the Hindu Temple of St. Louis, from the India Post report
The India Post report on the summer program — the piece that thanks the volunteers who held it up.

Sponsor a child's school fees

Sanghamitra pays fees for children in India who cannot pay them. The money goes to the school, after he has spoken to the school, and people he trusts there check each case. If you want to carry one child's year, say so below.

Volunteer

The India Post piece thanks the volunteers who held the summer program and the Medhavadhanam. Hall setup, Zoom, Telugu class help, books for a library in India, hosting a talk in your city. Say what you can do.

What the work actually covers

Food and clothing drives. School fees and books, paid direct. Support for elders. Telugu classes. Books for libraries in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam that people he knows keep running.

I want to give. Tell me where.

Your note is saved on this site, so it reaches Sreenivasa even when an email to him runs late. It is used only to answer you.

I want to volunteer

Your note is saved on this site, so it reaches Sreenivasa even when an email to him runs late. It is used only to answer you.

Or skip the form: WhatsApp Sreenivasa at +1 314 601 5309.

This is Sreenivasa's own position, in his own words, and this page says nothing more than it: he has never taken a donation, gifts to performers go to the performers, and school fees are paid to the school.