Dr. Nitin Shah, program lead of the Joy of Sharing Foundation, organizes humanitarian missions in Southern California. Among the impactful elements being offered by the program include free community health fairs (6-8 per year) to serve underserved communities for their basic medical needs. Anaheim Health Fair is one of them where along with medical services, the team also provides eyeglasses and do dental extractions, fillings & cleaning onsite annually since 2007.
Dr. Shah’s contribution to the local community started in 1992 and has not stopped since! He started with a free community health fair at Jain Center of Southern California and then expanded to many organizations and communities in and around Los Angeles such as Latinx, Indian, Nepali, Vietnamese, Korean, Sri Lankan and more. In all he has contributed to various roles, the majority being the lead person in 337 missions in the last 31 years.
More than 50 volunteers gathered at the Joy of Sharing Community Center to provide free grocery bags and freshly cooked vegetarian meals to support the surrounding communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This food distribution drive, organized by the Joy of Sharing Foundation and Gujarati Society of Southern California (GSSC), the grocery bags contained a combination of essentials such as rice, a variation of beans, pasta, fruits and vegetables, oil, salt, sugar, and oats.
The meals have been distributed to the homeless and disadvantaged population on Skid Row, Compton, the Women’s Center and Venice Beach. During the winter months, additional donated blankets, beanies, gloves and socks were also distributed.
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