I spy with my little eye - a world free of hunger
I spy with my little eye - a safe home for every kid
I spy with my little eye - a greener tomorrow
I spy with my little eye - love and kindness all around
Hi, I am Abhijay Potluri. "I Spy" had always been a favorite game for me and my brother Adithya. This is a game we all kids can relate, where one player becomes the spy, and selects an object for other players to find. And It very much applies to everything happening around us.
In our day to day, we all spy on so many things happening in front of our eyes. I spy people who are homeless, I spy kids who cannot go to school, I spy racism around us, I spy elderly people who need help, I spy people who throw food away on one side and people who die of hunger on the other side ...
Walking away is not an option anymore. Only if we could start acting in any smaller way on everything we spy, to start making a difference. Let us be the change for a better tomorrow.
What We Do
Our goal is to start taking action towards anything and anywhere, We can help in any smaller way.
We want to raise awareness among other kids and show that we are never too small to bring a change.
Let us keep our eyes wide open and spy on everything happening around us and help in any way we can, to show that we care.
Project 60
06-30-2023
Multiple tutoring sessions in summer to kids in Uganda teaching coding fundamentals. It was a great experience getting to know the kids from Uganda and helping them learn about computer fundamentals and coding basics.
Project 59
07-15-2022
Tutoring Women in Afghanistan collaborating with "Women Leaders of Tomorrow" Organization- Multiple individual learning sessions to develop basic english conversation skills, basic english grammar and help build confidence. One of my students is now enrolled in college in USA.
Project 58
Using the funds raised through summer tutoring, purchased 50 backpacks and school supplies and donated to School on Wheels of Massachusetts, an organization that supports homeless kids.
Project 57
Fundraiser teaching summer sessions to students from East Boston . These are fun and engaging sessions teaching kids how to solve Rubik's cubes.
Project 56
Treats for Troops - Drive to collect Candies, snacks, dental supplies and made cards to be sent to our troops collaborating with Ekam USA.
Project 55
Food drive for homeless shelter - Packaged Pasta, fruits, chips, cookies and juice and dropped off to feed 30 guests at MHSA - Middlesex Human Service Agency, Waltham.
Project 54
Teaching Public Speaking Summer Sessions to raise funds for education needs of underprivileged kids in India through Ekam USA.
Project 53
Food for homeless shelter - chicken burgers, veggie pasta, fruits and chips to feed 25 guests at MHSA in Waltham shelter.
Project 52
Scratch Programming Summer Teaching Sessions to elementary students to raise funds for education needs of underprivileged kids in India through Ekam USA.
Project 51
Python Programming Sessions in summer to raise funds for education needs of underprivileged kids in India through Ekam USA
Project 49
07-25-2023
Mentoring the students from East Boston school. Multiple tutoring sessions in summer to elementary students and virtual mentoring of needy kids in East Boston School. Helping Improve their diction, vocabulary, reading and self confidence
Project 47
Food for homeless shelter - Black bean vegetable mexican rice, fruits, chips and juice to feed 25 guests at MHSA in Waltham.
Project 46
06-05-2023
Fundraiser - Summer Tutoring for kids - Raised $400 to support education of kids in need through Ekam USA.
Project 44
05-14-2023
Mother’s Day Hampers with home made brownies, cookies, energy bars, toiletries etc and pasta, fruits, chips, drinks for the guests at Waltham Women’s shelter.
Project 43
Essentials to Earthquake victims
Week long drive collecting Diapers, baby food, hygiene and cleaning products, gloves, scarfs, hats, socks, blankets, comforters, sleeping bags and donated to Turkey - Syria earthquake victims.
Project 42
Spreading love on Valentines Day
We made 30 valentines cards expressing love and care for the residents of Robins Brook elderly shelter in Acton.
Project 41
Home made warm Brownies and delicious veggie pasta, fruits, protein bars and juice to feed 70 guests at Lowell Transitional Living Center, Inc.
Project 40
12-26-2022
Sponsored education needs of two kids for a year using the funds raised through summer tutoring. Met the kids in-person during visit to India. Had quality bonding time along with some fun-time at an amusement park. Collaboration with Ekam USA and Uplift a Child International, Inc.
Project 39
Treats for Troops : Collected 18 pounds of candies and treats, and made cards to be sent to our troops.
Project 38
Savers Drive - Ran a drive in the neighborhood and collected 261 pounds of house hold stuff to be donated to savers drive.
Project 37
09-27-2022
Celebrated Adithya's birthday by sponsoring a meal and cake to 120 kids at maaillu child shelter in India using the funds raised from summer teaching sessions through Ekam USA.
Project 36
08-10-2022
Totally fun learning to make brownies from scratch. And made 4 large trays of brownies for 60 guests at Lowell transitional homeless shelter.
Project 35
08-01-2022
Mentoring the students from East Boston school. Multiple one-one tutoring sessions in summer to elementary students and virtual mentoring of needy kids in East Boston School. Helping Improve their diction, vocabulary, reading and self confidence.
Project 34
08-14-2022
Packaged and dropped off delicious meal to feed 70 guests at Lowell Transitional Living Center, Inc through Ekam USA.
Project 33
09-01-2022
Raised $450 teaching Math, scratch and public speaking skills during summer holidays. Collaborated with Ekam USA organization supporting prosthetic legs project with the funds raised.
Project 32
08-04-2022
Food drive feeding 70 guests at homeless shelter - Packaged and delivered Veggie Pasta, Mexican rice, breakfast bars, chips packets, fruits and bread to feed guests at Lowell Transitional Living Center, Inc through EKAM USA
Project 31
07-04-2022
Book drive to collect 220 books - collected, sorted and donated to "More than words" , which is a non-profit social enterprise that empowers youth who are in foster care system, homeless, or out of school.
Project 30
06-30-2022
62 sandwiches and pasta packages
put together with fruits, chips, bars and juice bottles to feed the guests at MHSA - Middlesex Human Service Agency, Mens and Womens shelters in Waltham.
Project 29
06-26-2022
Volunteered to prepare food at the Nashua Soup Kitchen feeding 80+ guests at the shelter.
Project 28
03-27-2022
634 pounds of household items collected for EkamUSA drive for homeless. Drive was run for 20 days passing along flyers in the neighborhoods and collecting the items, sorting, packing and dropping off.
Project 27
Clothing and accessories drive for EkamUSA to donate to Epilepsy Foundation collecting any gently used items - clothing, footwear, outerwear, backpacks, bedding, accessories. Excited to have collected more than 30 bags and counting ..
Project 26
Exciting talking to more than 50 kids from Indonesia as a guest speaker spread the joy of learning, sharing my passion for coding, teaching and how we all kids can be the change makers. And especially enjoyed answering all the questions from the kids.
Project 25
Spread smiles and cheers across on Valentine's Day by making cards and packages for the elderly in the Robins Brook Senior shelter. We made 30 packages spreading love. It was exciting to go to the shelter and drop off the packages.
Project 19
Book Drive in association with People For India (PFI) and Ekam USA to benefit underprivileged children in Hyderabad. Raised funds for $200 towards shipping the books to India !!
Project 18
Hope Jars Initiative - Many kids in this world never get to open a gift. We wanted to do something little we can to make a difference, to bring a smile on a kids face this holiday season. We initiated a GoFundMe fundraiser to support the HopJar initiative and raised more than $1500 so far. We will be splitting the funds across many local initiatives as well as supporting organizations Ekam USA, ABUW and UNICEF we had been volunteering with. GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/246fe373
Project 14
09-25-2021
Acton-Boxborough United Way Week of Action - Chalk the Walk for Racial Justice - to make chalk art around the themes of diversity, inclusion, equity and racial justice. It is an important topic for all of us to talk about and raise more awareness and this is such a creative way to showcase with chalk the walk event.
Project 13
Boxborough Fire Relief Fundraiser - Several families were displaced by a fire in one of the local communities. We have started a campaign to raise funds to support the families. $1000 raised from the campaign donated to "Acton Boxborough United Way", who managed a coordinated effort to help the families. GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/7fdd60c8
Project 8
Celebrating my birthday with the kids from Maa Illu shelter in India
Project 7
Video campaign to raise awareness on Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. The theme of Earth Day 2021 is "Restore Our Earth".
Watch this video on all the little things we all can do to protect the planet. We all can become planet heroes by taking these small steps. Yes together we can restore our earth.
Project 6
#MatchYourGiftsSpreadTheJoy campaign to match the Christmas gifts and spread the campaign on social media. Several donations made for -
St Jude Children’s research hospital, vtsworld.org, Acton Food Pantry, UNICEF USA, Habitat for humanity, No kid hungry, American Society for prevention of cruelty to animals, Aim For Seva. https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/matchyourgiftspreadthejoy
Project 5
05-08-2021
Chale Chalo for India - Bike Ride to support #IndiaCovid19Response initiative by India Association of Greater Boston and several other New England Organizations coming together to support and raise funds for covid relief in India.