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Popular Look Alike Ravi Subbarao. was a big draw at GANDHI DAY orgnized by Indian-American Org
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FANCY DRESSS SKIT ON Non violence, Peace and Leadership
by Genius Kids |
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Curte Girls Skit on Nonviolence and Peace
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Attendees admiring Peace in many languages
and many more displays |
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Fancy Dress
on Life and Legacy of Gandhiji |
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Bharat Natyam Dancers of Jeyendra Kalakendra School (Dir Sugandha Sreenath) with Gandhiji |
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High school Volunteer MC's Ms Kosha Kumar and Sandeep Billakota |
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High School volunteer Announcer
Sumedh Bhattacharya |
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Cute Kids with Song
Safari Kid School
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Senior Citizend on Gandhi
Birth Dates PRE 1947
(L-R) CG Desai, Vijay Kumar and Prof A. Srinivasan |
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 GANDHI DAY Huge success with 200+ attendees of ALL AGE groups
Milpitas, CA
The World Non Violence Peace Day was a resounding success with over 200 people gracing the Milpitas Library.
With an emphasis on community building, Educations and inculcating vales in Youth and children, the Gandhi day Celebrations were everything that was promised and a long line of participants waited to convey the same sentiments.
With all age groups represented, from children as yung as 3 years old taking part in fancy dress and speeches, some of the other pwerful messages wer delivered by at least three Senior citizens- with their experiences pre Independence of India and reliving their memories of being influenced by Mahatma Gandhi when he was alive.
" We have this celebration in bringing the legcay of Gandhi and the spirit of Non violence, Peace, Tolerance, Community Service and Youth Leadership" said Sam Rao, AJ singh, Mohinder Khanna and other coordinators of the event.
With the theme in mind, the event was conducted by High School students Ms. Kosha Kumar, SumeedBhattacharya and Sandeep Billakota, with active help from others.
Over 35 kids took part in a special segment of Fancy dress Up featuring a skit on the life of Gandhi by students of Genius kids , while young pre schoolers from Safari Kids performed couple of songs.
While songs and dances were being performed, others in the audience actively took part, with speeches and quotes on Peace etc by a wide range of Men, Women and Children ranging from participants whose Birthdates were year 1931 ( pre Independence) to some who were born post 2000!
Displays by MAITRI- ADv prevention and womens empowermment agency, Safari kids, and submissions of art work and crafts adorned the sides, while International artist Tanya Momi also displayed her stylle of paintings for the occassion.
"With active participation and help by wide ranging age groups, a variety of Art, Music, dance, song and inspirational speehces in many languages- the event which was conducted by Youth- completely fulfilled the theme of the event. We are all happy that this was embraced by the community " said organizers.
All Sam Rao photos
Each pic and more have HIGH RES PICS AVAILABLE
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