Jai Srimannarayana!
Dear All,
VT Seva Dallas Fort Worth team organized Tarangini 2012 on Saturday, February 4th 2012 at Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. It started on a very good evening with warm welcome to one and all by Mr. Vishruth, an active youth volunteer of VT Seva. This is 3rd year in a row that VT Seva Dallas is organizing this event with the active participation and great support from Dallas community. The event showered everyone with laughter,happiness and friendship. The Dallas Tarangini events organized in 2010 and 2011 have raised awareness and funds for educating and empowering the visually challenged. Through funds raised by Dallas Tarangini event, VT Seva provided 3 braille printers and supported the education of around 30 visually challenged students.
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The purpose of this annual event is to engage youngsters and young at heart to bring happiness and joy to the underprivileged and under served, be it be in the field of education, health care, environmental protection or responding to the natural disasters.The event date coincided with the World Cancer Day. As the noble cause of cancer awareness and prevention is one of the main pillars of VT Seva, detailed information on VT Seva efforts have been shared with the audience. The fact that VT Seva conducted around 2500 Health and Cancer awareness camps from 2004 to 2010 received great applause from the attendees. The material from American Cancer Society was shared at the venue.
Tarangini 2012 was aimed at raising awareness and funds for the education and empowerment of students from the tribal and fishermen communities. VT Seva currently supports education of 384 students at Allampalli school, 254 students at Birsaipeta school and 152 students at Katarivaripalem school. All the funds raised for this event will be contributed towards the education of few students from above schools.
The program had wonderful dance items performed by the youngsters from the best schools in Dallas. It began with a peace prayer by PRAJNA students wishing peace, health and prosperity to one and all. The event emcee was Ms. Neelam from local FunAsia Radio channel, ably supported by Ms. Aparna. The music program was performed by Kashish band. PRAJNA students performed dances for "I run for Life" and "Firework" songs to raise awareness for cancer prevention while the details of VT Seva efforts to battle this disease were simultaneously displayed on a very big projector at the venue. Ms. Malathi, the VT Seva Dallas Branch director choreographed the above 2 dance items by engaging PRAJNA families to spread the need of preventing the Cancer. The detailed information of VT Seva activities with special focus on youth volunteerism in USA at all the branches from various states were displayed on a big projector next to the main dais throughout the program. Ms. Malathi conveyed vote of thanks to all the sponsors, active volunteers, the youngsters, dance schools, music band and media partners for making this event a big success year after year. The youngsters were educated about US President's Volunteer Service Award Program certification to VT Seva and were encouraged to take active role in organization's service activities.
During the program, good results from Bone Marrow Drives supported by VT Seva Dallas in the past 2 years were shared with the audience. A life (Mr. Vinod) was saved due to such efforts.
Thanks,
VT Seva Dallas Fort Worth Team
http://www.vtsworld.org
