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Video Message of
Dr.K.Rosaiah Garu
*** Press Release ***
NRIVA has celebrated its first Global convention in Washington DC in
very grand manner midst of festivity, love, and affection of its members. There were about 1500 people attended this conference from
different parts of the world traveling exclusively for this convention
where issues like eradication of poverty, illiteracy and imbalances in
society thoroughly brainstormed and discussed. There was festivity all
around since it was the first global convention.
NRIVA which is based out of USA has been spreading its social service
beyond region, religion, community and any other factors along with
Goddess Vasavi Matha's message of three important aspects of ideal life
Dharmam Sheelam Ahimsa. It has been spearheading this message across the
world and has developed chapters in all important metros of North
America and other European countries. NRIVA which organizes Vasavi
Jayanthi celebrations every year across all states in USA has more than
10 thousand active members in the organization today.
There were several streams of programs conducted which included
Matrimonial, Political Awareness, Adapt-a-Student, Business, Job
opportunities. There was a special session for youth and children. All
sessions got tremendous response; Business Matrimonial and Women
sessions were packed and there were no seats for a lot of people.
The convention was a 3-day event. First day was a social banquet
night at Hyatt Reston where social recognition awards were announced and
felicitations took place. There was a fashion parade by Washington DC
team under the leadership of Praveena Kalwala and Jayashree Kalva. There
was a cultural talent show by NRIVA Cultural team. Food was sumptuous at
the banquet night under the leadership of Satish Solleti and Kiran Kalva. Many
people were seen commenting that they have never seen a banquet night
with such gaiety and honor. The food arrangements were extraordinary and
thoroughly enjoyed by participants. Satish Solleti and Kiran have
coordinated with Swadesh Foods, who have taken care of Food arrangements
and ensured that tasty and fresh food available throughout the
convention time including midnights for supporting the global timings of
visitors from different countries. The Banquet was addressed by Ambica
Krishna who was the guest for the night. Ganesh Bigala TRS Vice
President from India addressed the event and said this kind of events
remind people and recharge them for more social responsibility. Vijay
Chava Chairman of NRIVA gave executive team's perspective and long term
vision of the organization. He claimed that NRIVA is a complete "ABCD"
organization (American Born Complete Desi Organization) and purely made
in America. He said NRIVA will be spreading its wings to help the needy
beyond region, religion, caste and creed.
2nd and 3rd days were spent for main
sessions in Hyatt Dulles in the same vicinity and heavily decorated
reminding the rich culture of south India.
The Global convention which is the first for NRIVA was inaugurated by
Thiruppavai Kokila Manjula Sree of Sree foundation followed by NRIVA
international directors VV Sanyasi Rao and Gowraswamy Krishna Murthy by
lightning the lamp. Thiruppavai Kokila Manjula Sree started the session
with her spiritual discourse.
President of NRIVA Mr. Anand Garlapati has introduced Sri Grandhi
Mallikarjuna Rao garu whom people affectionately call GMR to the audience and
also gave presidential speech on the occasion. He explained how NRIVA
was formed and grew to present strengths and talked about the goals and
objectives of NRIVA and the wonderful service activities that are being
done by NRIVA. He mentioned that 300 underprivileged students were
helped though Adopt-A-Student program in last 4 years. He praised all key members who
have spent day and night to build a world class social and service
organization and thanked DC team for turning out the event as a memorable
one in the history of south Indian Association overseas.
GMR was the key note speaker at the global convention who has traveled
exclusively for the event. Addressing the convention he said there are
strong needs in the society to reduce economic imbalances and reminded
about individual and corporate social responsibility to fill the gap. He
also applauded service organizations like NRIVA for coming forward to
shoulder this responsibility. He thoroughly praised the NRIVA effort through Adapt-A-Student
(AAS) scheme and launched "Save-To-Help" scheme which was aimed at
inculcating the idea of savings in children and families. NRIVA
distributed "Save-To-Help" piggy banks to all the attendants at the convention at free
of cost and requested children to send the collections at the year end
every year towards AAS.
GMR, who recently pledged to create an endowment worth USD 340 million (INR
1540 crores) – an equivalent to the entire portion of his personal share
of the business -- in favor of the GMR Varalaskhmi Foundation for
charitable activities to serve the needs of the under-served sections of
the society, pledged USD 2,50,000 towards NRIVA active program AAS
(Adopt-A-Student). He expressed his interest in the matching grant mode
as this will double the efforts.
GMR also launched the convention souvenir along with core team and
felicitated the deserved people who did extraordinary service to the
society across the globe. He also recognized children who have showed
the great talent and excelled in their respective fields.
NRIVA felicitated Sri.G.M.Rao Garu with Life Time Achievement award.
NRIVA also felicitated Dr.Sunitha Kanumury who is the President of AAPI
(American Association of Physicians of Indian origin. The AAPI is the most
powerful organization of medical professionals in the World). NRIVA
felicitated Dr. Kishore Kuncham, Superintendent of Schools, for his
contributions to public education and being the first Indian American
Superintendent in the state of New York and first telugu Superintendent
in the United States. NRIVA also recognized 15 others with excellence
awards in various fields like Community Service, Sports, Education, Arts etc.
Bindu Lanka of Datta Peetham started the 2nd day with Yoga session,
Rama Jonnalagadda organized
Women’s Session, Ujwala led the Youth sessions, Dr.Prasad Makam
organised Doctors and healthcare professional session, Ramesh Kalwala
and team organized Indian Embassy sessions, Mahesh Bigala organized
immigration session, Nagender Aytha led Business Sessions, Sanyasi Rao
Vuppala organized session on Franchising, Nagender Mahi
and Hanuman Nandanampati led Jobs and Career Session, LN Rao Chilakala helped with Political
Awareness session while Madhavi Alapaty and Suneetha Karamsetty led the Matrimonial sessions.
More than 20 leading businesses from IT, Finance, Pharma participated in
Business sessions and Job Fair. Krishna
Mohan led the DC tours to the guests on September 3rd and 5th.
The important dignitaries from India include Pokala Chander - AVOPA
president, K.Sankara Rao of Ajantha Supari, Yoganand of Manjeera Constructions etc.
D.H.
Shankara Murthy, Chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council was another VVIP
attended the event as guest of honor.
The arrangement of exhibit booths led by Rajesh Badam attracted the
crowd and helped in turning out business to local business men. Raju
Thota has ensured that attendees did not face any logistical issues.
International cultural activities led by Satish Solleti included comedy
skits by Tollywood comedians and musical entertainment by Super Singer
winners. Cine artists like -Gundu Hanumanath Rao, heroine Kavitha who traveled exclusively for the event have played wonderful
comedy skits to attract the crowd,
Archana Veda, Singers Srikrishna, Malavika, Deepu, Sravana Bhargavi who
played final day music show mesmerized people with their talent
and response was amazing.
The whole event was supported by NRIVA convention convener Ramesh
Kalwala, coordinated by Bala Voleti and organized by Srinivas Tunuguntla.
Nagendar Aytha, Hari Raini, Santosh Morishetti, LN Rao Chilakala from
Exec team worked for months together with the help of 25 US
chapters leads, and thus helped to pull the event out successfully.
Gangadhar Desu, Pavan Darisi, Nagendra Gupta, Srini Maddali, Rama
Jonnalagadda, T.P.Srinivas have helped the event as advisors. Suresh
Katta, Mahesh Bigala, Mahi, Hanuman Nandanampati, Suresh Chatakondu also
advised the event.
More information about NRIVA and
NRIVA activities can be seen at
www.nriva.org
Photos of the Global Convention 2011 can be seen at:
Banquet
Evening
Main Event and all
sessions
Musical Night on September 4th
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