Seva Scholars
College prep, mentorship, and scholarships for Punjabi and South Asian youth.
Our Story
Built from the community
House of Seva began with a personal truth: the support our founder needed growing up never existed. A first-generation college graduate raised in Vallejo and shaped by the gurdwara community, they navigated the path to higher education — and later to careers in technology and medicine — largely alone.
That experience became a calling. Why should the next student, the next family, the next elder face those same closed doors? House of Seva is the infrastructure our founder wished had been there, now built deliberately for the people who come next.
We are not a charity that arrives from the outside. We are of this community — we speak its languages, share its traditions, and understand its quiet struggles. Every program is an act of seva, and a promise that no one here has to do it alone again.
Meet the Founder
Jaiveer Bassi
Founder & Executive Director
Jaiveer is a first-generation college graduate, born and raised in Vallejo, with a background in technology. He grew up in the local Punjabi community and the gurdwara sangat, where he spent years volunteering and giving back to the people around him.
Along the way he saw how often families went without the support they needed, and how few places there were to turn to. He started House of Seva to help change that, building a home rooted in seva for the community he grew up in, beginning with Seva Scholars for first-generation Punjabi and South Asian youth.