Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Sambhali in April 2008



Happy April!!

Literacy project participant Kavita's birthday,c elebrating it with Sambhali Jodhpur girls and step sister (Savita, Jodhpur project participant) sitting next to her.
Deepika Jodhpur Project particpant at Clair's Art class, Guest volunteer from Australia.
Palms of Jodhpur project particpants
New participant (cousine from Monica, diabetic, not going to school), Mamta
Potraits from each other, few girls participated at Jodhpur project, Mary's class.
Annual Meeting of Board Members from right to left-Govind Singh Rathore, Mukta Kanwar, Badan Kanwar, Rashmi Rathore, Virendra Singh Chouhan and Mr. Devi Sharan Singh Shaktawat, member of advisory board, administrator and legal advisor.
Deepika and Sarika at Clair's class (art workshop) - very motivated!!

Setrawa Project participants, picture taken when we had guest from UK, Ms. Chloe and Mr. Francisco.
Girls Jodhpur project, getting ready for morning prayers.
Participants from Jodhpur project at Ms. Clair's class.
Ms. Charlotte, Ms. Mary and Ms. Clair invited participants from Jodhpur project to walk to the departmental store near our workshop building for a treat of ice cream, participants enjoying ice cream.
All participants at Jodhpur project dancing on Hokey Pokey song.

Sambhali Trust:
Today we did our annual meeting, all set for the Red Tape (Government policy), 5 of us the board members were present and discussed a lot of issues and the achievments. We have thanked all our Supporters, Volunteers, Participants, Teachers for the year and specially Ms. Mary for doing our Annual Report. Our audit of the year is under process and will be upto date in a day or two. Virendra and my father in law, Mr. Shaktawat, have worked very hard with our not very easy account manager. We have requested few other Sambhali Trust friends to join on a little board formed few weeks ago by us trustees, it is an advisory board, which has Mary Polizzotti from the USA, Sales Manager Lonely Planet publication in the USA, Ms. Colleena Shakti from USA, Founder of "Shakti school of dance", Mr. Kamlesh Ratnu from Jodhpur, working with INIFD, Marichika Studio and is a Fashion Designer, Mr. Dilip Singh Rajawat from Jaisalmer, Ex-President of the Lions Club and has a Factory of producing Aloe Vera Products, Mrs. Madhu Kanwar from Jodhpur who is working in tourism for 14 years and last but not least Mr. Devi Sharan Singh Shaktawat from Jamuniya, experianced Lawyer for 40 years and Professor of law at Neemuch Law University. This Holi, after staying in touch with emails, finally we got to host Ms. Annuradha Jain, a lovely guest from USA, we are thankfull to Ms. Annuradha for her precious time she spared for Jodhpur and Setrawa projects and for her generous contribution to the project and wise thoughts. We look forward to hosting you some day again.

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