President's Message

Hello Ladies!

I hope all of you find yourselves refreshed and relaxed during your holiday breaks!

Let me first start off by congratulating our Crafts Group. They raised over Rs.19,000 at our Holiday Bazaar. You should all give yourselves a huge pat on the back! The crafts were lovely and so well done. Thank you very much for your hard work and I look forward to seeing what is coming in the future!

Secondly, Thank you to Aruna Vijaykumar and Maureen Thandi for selling books at the Christmas Fair on December 1. They have sold off the majority of the books we had, helping with our storage issues, as well as raising over Rs.12,000 which was donated in our name to the Christmas Fair. Thank you Ladies!

A big Thank you also needs to go to Maureen Hudson-Murari for all of her work organizing the charity events/parties. This is truly a difficult task and she has worked very hard to make sure everyone has something they need or enjoy this holiday season. I also want to thank those who have assisted at the different events. I hope you have found this enlightening and choose to become more involved with our Social Welfare groups and help out our different Charities!

We also have some things to look forward to. Our meeting on January 9 will feature Hints and Tips for Living in Madras! I hope to see all of you there as this meeting is amazingly informative and helpful!

Our Garden Tea this year will be held at the the Japanese Consulate. We will be having an Oriental Tea and will also be looking for your help! We would like to get to know everyone and their cultures better, so along with the lovely Japanese dishes we will have, we would like to have dishes brought from each nationality! This is a great chance for you to get together and enjoy some time cooking up your favorite dish from home! There will be more details on this in the near future – so start thinking of what you would like to bring to represent you and your country!


Happy New Year!
Stephanie Thompson
President