Sheela Balaji is the managing trustee and chair of AIM For Seva, which is a Pan-India charitable trust which is tasked with opening and sustaining free student hostels in remote and rural parts of India to help children from those regions to continue schooling.
Balaji was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for her work (including preserving and growing rare rice varieties).
On December 13, 2020, AIM for Seva organised virtual performances ‘Shiva Shakti’ (a dance-theatre by Odissi exponent Sharmila Biswas) and ‘Psychology & Contemporary Management’ (a talk by its founder Swami Dayananda Saraswati), proceeds of the event were donated towards annadanam for 250 students who stay across chatralayas due to COVID-19.
[8] On the evening of October 6, 2018, a mesmerizing dance drama titled “Nandalala” by Bharathanjali marked the annual donor appreciation event of the Bay Area chapter of the All India Movement for Seva at the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, California.
[7] There was also a planned contribution towards the construction of the Swami Dayananda Residential School and Free Student Hostel complex in a village in Madhya Pradesh in also including facilities for rural ambulance service and health sanitation program for the local community.