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Dallas: ATA Co-Hosts Senior Citizens Event (Maitri)

03.25.2009

Dear ATA Family,

Senior Citizens Program (Maitri) First Inaugural session Luncheon was organized in Dallas/Fort Worth on 3/15/2009 at Kokila Indian Restaurant. This event was Co-hosted by ATA (American Telugu Association) partnering with Tantex (Telugu Association of North Texas ). Even though it was a Sunday, more than 110 people participated in this event mostly the visiting Parents from India as well as Senior Citizens from DFW Community.

The Purpose of this event is, with the Increase of Youth influx in DFW Telugu Population quite few parents are visiting their children in USA, and all of us go through the challenge of keeping our parents happy when they visit us here. Some of us succeed but many are fail to keep them occupied. It is obviously not possible to create an environment similar to the one they come from. Besides them there are several local Telugu citizens who worked for many years in the US and have retired. Most of them have a desire to meet other people and spend time with their age groups. For that reason, Local ATA Chapter and Local Telugu Associations came forward and Organized first Inaugural Senior Citizen Program.

Nearly 10 ATA members and non-Members worked very hard to make arrangements for this event turned out to be Grand Success, started with devotional prayer by Aparna Vedula & Shayamala Rummalla, Welcome address by local Telugu Association President Sridhar Korsapati and DFW Metro ATA Regional Coordinator Satish Reddy.

Past ATA Regional Coordinator RamaKrishna Rodda Reddy DFW ATA Senior Citizen Committee Member & Suresh Manduva local Telugu Association JT. Secretary gave the details about the upcoming monthly Senior citizen activities includes Group Discussions , Debates, Games (Chess, Caroms, etc), Singing, Sharing literary work, Cultural Activities, Interactive sessions by professionals on topics like Health, Yoga etc.

Survey was also conducted to find their interests, so that this can be used in the future Senior Programs, in addition to that some of the vis iting parents and local senior Citizens shared their views as to how much it means to them to have this type of activities.

The formal program was concluded with the vote of Thanks by Rao Kalavala.

This event was well Organized and coordinated by DFW ATA Senior Citizen Committee Members: Ramkrishna Rodda, Jagpal Naini, Ben Gupta, Satyan Kalyandurg, Rao Kalavala as well as Local Telugu Association Leadership.

Some of the current and past Local ATA leaders are also attended this event including Krishna Bapatla, Srinvias Gurram , Ananth Pajjur and others….

Finally, Thanks to the Sponsors, without their support this event will not be possible.

DFW Metro ATA Team