Janyaa Events – September 2012

September 2012

September was a busy month for Janyaa with many exciting events held in association with our helpful partners. We are very grateful to our volunteers who have made these events successful. Rajesh Shastry, our volunteer lead has been phenomenal in inspiring volunteers.

A Bollywood Broadway Musical celebrating the life of Legendary Rajesh Khanna. Janyaa presented this event in association with Radio Zindagi and Andaaz Music Band on September 14th in Fremont, CA. Not surprisingly, this was a sold out event attended by an excited crowd. Janyaa also had an information desk for providing details about the learning program.

On September 15th in Palo Alto, Janyaa presented a comedy Hindi play in association with Instant Karma. This too was a packed event.  This was the first ever Bollywood Musical Play involving famous actors from the Hindi Cinema – Padmini Kolhapure, Shakti Kapoor and Navin Bawa . The play was thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd and was aptly titled – Aasman Se Gire Khajoor Pe Atke. Volunteers from Janyaa were very involved with the play setup and logistics.

On September 16th, Janyaa in association with Mystique Events, presented Vivah 2012 – an exciting Bridal and Lifestyle event. With a packed house, sold-out vendor booths, a great fashion show & riveting reviews by the press & media, WLEA was billed not only as California’s but as North America’s biggest South Asian wedding & lifestyle expo. We had an information desk setup and our volunteers helped with the event setup.

That’s all for now. Please look forward to our updates in the next newsletter. We have the grand Utsav 2012 event with Dandiya, fun events for the entire family and a talent show for kids. Please do attend. For more details, view the link.

Janyaa, a 501c(3) organization set up in 2009, focuses on developing creative problem solving skills in rural kids in India. The name, Janyaa, which translates to “life” appropriately fits with the vision of this organization. Please send your feedback on our program, events or the newsletter to Janyaa. We appreciate your support and time.

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Utsav and Disco Dandiya 2012

September 2012

Janyaa is proud to be associated with Utsav 2012, the first ever star studded pre-diwali shopping experience along with exciting activities for everyone in the family. Janyaa is organizing this event in association with WomenNow TV and Star Plus.

We cordially invite you to Utsav 2012, a two-day extravaganza offering a variety of activities including scintillating Garba-Dandiya Raas, Health Fair, India Real estate EXPO, Kids Talent Contest, Teen and Adult Dance Competition, Cooking Contest, Quiz Contest, exclusive Fashion Show, DJ Night and much more! Tap your feet to California’s finest DJ of Paragon Studio. Don’t Miss the captivating Vocal and Dance Performances throughout the day. One-stop festive shopping event with booths open from 1 PM and till midnight on Saturday and 11 am – 7 pm on Sunday. Enjoy spectacular ambiance by Mita productions.

The event is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from 12pm Oct 6th to end of the day on Oct 7th.

The most exciting part of the event is that a major portion of the proceeds will go to Janyaa to empower more kids in rural India.

Volunteers Needed

For any event to be successful, volunteers play a major role. Since this is a large-scale event, we are eagerly looking forward to volunteers from among our members. We need close to 90 volunteers over a period of 2 days. Tasks include Registration, Ushering, Backstage, Lineup for contests. Volunteers get a free entry to the entire Utsav and more importantly help spread the reach of Janyaa’s unique program to more children.

If you would like to volunteer, please email – volunteer@janyaa.org

More details about the event on the following page – Utsav 2012 and Disco Dandiya.

Looking forward to see you all there.

Janyaa, a 501c(3) organization set up in 2009, focuses on developing creative problem solving skills in rural kids in India. The name, Janyaa, which translates to “life” appropriately fits with the vision of this organization. Please send your feedback on our program, events or the newsletter to info@janyaa.org. We appreciate your support and time.

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Updates from India – September 2012

September 2012

There has been a lot happening with our program in India.

Teacher training at Solapur

We are expanding rapidly in Maharashtra. An extensive teacher training session was conducted by Surendra in Solapur. Janyaa’s learning program of empowering children has been introduced in 10 schools on 30th aug 2012.

Refresher training for SAP Labs Bangalore volunteers and partners

A refresher training camp was held for our partners in India at SAP Labs, Bangalore. The partners who attended include Read India Foundation, Make A Difference, Hope foundation. It was conducted by Surendra. A couple of potential partners also attended the training. We also had a good employee turnout from SAP and Intel. Janyaa has a very scalable model and the more partners we have, the more faster we can empower children.

Initiating our program at Basavanagudi school

Rajesh Arya from SAP India Global delivery and his wife Anuradha Arya have adopted a school in Bangalore. They have introduced the Janyaa program to kids in 6th grade of Govt. Girls Model Primary school, Basavangudi, Bengaluru. Anuradha has conducted the training session for teachers along with the children. It was an exciting first day at class for these young kids.

Development of new experiment/games in progress

The employees at SAP Labs, Bangalore are very active in helping Janyaa. They are currently working on developing new exciting science and math experiments/games for Janyaa.

You too can get involved with Janyaa. If you would like to volunteer at events or help us in designing new experiments, please contact us at volunteer@janyaa.org.

Janyaa, a 501c(3) organization set up in 2009, focuses on developing creative problem solving skills in rural kids in India. The name, Janyaa, which translates to “life” appropriately fits with the vision of this organization. Please send your feedback on our program, events or the newsletter to info@janyaa.org. We appreciate your support and time.

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