The services of Surat Manav Seva Sangh 'Chhanyado' are not just Confined to Surat and other parts of India, but they have served internationally too. Nepal experienced a high magnitude earthquake in 2015.Following the aftermath, Shah and several others visited disaster affected areas in Nepal, including the Bhimtar Sindhupal Chowk District and the Jalbire village.

Looking at the dire condition of people there after this natural disaster, 'Chhanyado' in association with Lions Cancer Detection Centre and Jivan Jyot Trust, Amroli decided to donate life-saving medicines worth Rs.12,00,000 to the victims of earthquake.

Over and above this, 'Chhanyado' constructed 200 shelter homes named 'Mahesh Awas' for the earthquake-affected people in Nepal.

We have also decided to help those children who are deaf and dumb by birth. Child below 12years is operated freely at Dr. Vinod Shah’s clinic Surat as per guideline of Government of Gujarat. (Chinmay Public Charitable Trust) After such operation child require speech therapy so that the child can gradually able to speak. Total expense per patient for such therapy is approximately Rs. 40,000/- (Forty thousand only) our trust has decided to bare this expense for five years.(Every year our trust will donate Rs. 12, 50,000/- for five year.

Recently we have decided to help heart patients who have heart problem and advised bypass surgery or valve surgery and whose Angiography is being done before 6 months and the patient has financial problem and didn’t able to do bypass surgery at the time of angiography is entitle for our scheme, In this scheme patient has to pay Rs. 50,000/- for the same and in case of valve operation patient has to pay Rs. 75,000/-. We have decided to do one hundred heart as well as valve operation within one year. (i.e. from july 2015 to june 2016)

During the testing times of Covid-19, Bharatbhai Shah, the President of Surat Manav Seva Sangh 'Chhanyado' devised an interesting, out-of-the-box 'Roti Bank' concept as he was aware that serving meals to the needy during lockdown was a massive challenge, but preparing a voluminous amount of Chapattis was even a bigger one! So he appealed to people of Surat to participate in this 'Service from Home' activity of making Chapattis and donating them so that it can reach to the underfed. This was a very idiosyncratic campaign that India witnessed for the first time.

He urged every household in Surat through the medium of Social Media to prepare 5 to10 extra Rotis (chapattis) to donate to the needy apart from what they regularly make for themselves. Within a few hours, 500 families had volunteered to assist the poor, which quickly grew to 10,000 families, and later on, 26000 families joined this noble cause. Volunteers collected rotis from their residence. 26000 families participated in this 'Roti Bank' (Services from Home) project, delivering over 1.5 lakh rotis per day. All in all, 1300 Roti Bank Collection Centers were established during this unique campaign. Each team had two people in charge of near about 20 collection points. A total of 130 volunteers helped with the logistics part to carry out this entire process smoothly.

This enabled a sense of satisfaction to the women at home during the lockdown while they became a part of service to mankind by preparing chapattis for the needy. Thank you is just a small word when it is about acknowledging the colossal contribution of all the volunteers who supported 'Chhanyado' in this project particularly the Social Media team, Chapatti Donors, Caterers, Administrators of all 9 centres, robust Distribution Channel, Space Providers for preparation of these meals, Monetary contributors as well as other Social Organizations. We bow down and express our deep gratitude to all of them for coming forward and making this seemingly impossible mission a huge success with utmost enthusiasm.

During the lockdown, world over there was a shortage of food and medical supplies. The lower middle-class and the poor, both were hard hit because they seldom store food and grocery for more than a few days. Looking at this dire situation the trustees at 'Chhanyado' under the leadership of Bharatbhai Shah immediately came into action to chalk out an action plan for relief to these people in terms of providing them with food and medicines whilst preserving their dignity. Ramjibhai Chandak suggested to spend 100% of the corpus fund to provide meals to migrants, needy and the Middle Class.

Following this, 'Chhanyado' established 9 centres with 650 volunteers to provide kitchen and logistical support in the most affected areas comprising of the poor and migrant labours. From 27th March to 31st May, 2020, a total of around 5.5 million comprehensive meals were distributed to these set of people. This was made possible on receiving free vegetables from the solicitous farmers of Timba, Shampura and others from Olpad and Kamrej Taluka.

Surat has a vast industrial area and lockdown forced the migrant workers to return to their native place. Team 'Chhanyado' ensured that 27,000 such stranded migrant workers received breakfast packets and water at Udhana Railway Station through 'Chhanyado'. Over and above this, more than 57,000 food packets including mineral water bottle were distributed to Covid-19 patients in New Civil Hospital. Doctors, nurses and paramedical team who were working day and night to ensure the wellbeing of patients were provided with healthy breakfast and water bottle on daily basis as a token of gratitude.

Looking at the dire health emergency situations during Covid-19 Phase-2, the trustees at 'Chhanyado' decided to donate 50 Ventipeeps and BiPaps that help to make breathing easier for admitted patients of the New Civil Hospital at Surat and 5 units were issued to Jivan Jyot Hospital at Amroli. 'Chhanyado' also donated 3 ventilators to three different hospitals in Surat and also 30 oxygen concentrator machines to Primary and Comprehensive Healthcare Centres and to villages of South Gujarat as well as Bikaner district of Rajasthan. 2700 vials of Remdesevir injections were distributed to patients at cost to cost rate through 'Lokseva Medical Stores'.

Over and above this, looking at the shortage of bed in hospitals, a facility called 'Vande Mataram' isolation centre was made ready within no time with 38 beds in collaboration with Seva Foundation as well as other trust so that struggling Covid-19 patients can get the treatment on immediate basis.

In addition to this, 2000 grocery kits were distributed to Class-IV employees and security personnel at New Civil Hospital Surat, as well as to the Covid-19 patients who were quarantined at home.

Apart from all of above, 'Chhanyado' donated shroud (kafan cloth) for the poor who lost their battle against Covid-19 as well as chairs and other items to their kith and kin.