From: Kalyanji Mota
To: Board Of Directors of KOJAIN
Subject: The report of
KOJAIN’s Mini Sammelan in
July 10, 2009
My Dear Friends,
Jai Jinendra.
The KOJAIN mini sammelan
held in
Vijaybhai Chheda had to leave
The mini sammelan
started chanting Navkar Mantra and Kalyanjibhai at
the outset introduced Chaitali Kirit Gala, a U.C.
Berkley graduate in Political Science and South Asian Studies, currently
working in a law firm in Los Angeles and Rapir Dhiraj
Dedhia, a third year student at UCLA working towards his Bachelor of Arts
degree in Business Economics and Minor in Accounting, as Masters of ceremony to
handle this mini convention. The plan was to recognize “Talented young Kachchhi
children and young adults”.
Rapir introduced 17-year-old Somil Nalin Chheda. He projected
a full page of Somil’s bio data on projection screen
for the audience to see and read his 11th grade GPA of 4.49, his achievements
in school from 2007 to 2009, his experience as volunteer, and his extra
curricular activities including very popular organization at Jain Center of Los
Angeles as co president of Jain Center youth council. He read all the awards Somil has won and competitive events in which he
participated. Finally a plaque from KOJAIN was given to him recognizing him as
a talented young adult. The plaque was given to each “Talented young Kachchhi
children and young adults” and each “New entrepreneurs” who were recognized at
this event.
Next Chaitali introduced
18-year-old Neelam Jayesh
Savla. She projected her one-and-a-half-page long bio data on projection
screen. Neelam is a second year student at USC (
Acharya Shri Chandanaji and Sadhaviji Shri Silapiji who were invited to attend the mini sammelan came
with Sadhaviji Shri Shubhamji as well as singer Miss Mangalam and several guests. Acharya shri
and Silapiji, in their speeches, outlined development
activities undertaken by Virayatan in Kachchh.
Seven colleges are planed to open in Kachchh by 2011. Eighteen crores rupees were collected in one session for
establishing these colleges. Kalyanjibhai thanked for
their speeches and said that Acharyashree Chandanaji has been our mother Teresa of Kachchh and Silapiji has been a jewel of Kachchh. Audience was rejoiced
by their speeches.
The Master of Ceremony Rapir and Chaitali then continued the process of
recognizing talented young children and adults. Rapir
introduced Paras Ashok Savla. He said 17-year-old Paras had GPA of 4.6, a
Valedictorian – Ranked first out of 492 classmates, highest GPA for the class
of 2009 – TCHS. SAT: 2000 (640 Critical
Then Chaitali introduced
Navinbhai Gangar who showed
paintings of her nine-year-old grand daughter, Raina Virendra Rode’s 12 paintings. Third grader Raina was visiting
Raina started formal art
training in 2005 at the age of 5. She has worked in soft pastels, chalk,
watercolors, acrylic and oil paintings. She started oil painting in 2008 and
has made Monet, Matisse, Manet and various landscapes
and still lives. In the past 2 years she has entered the Orange County Fair
competition and was placed 3rd in 2007. She
was also recognized by Fairmont Private School for exhibiting her
transportation art at
This concluded the
recognition of four talented youngsters. Navinbhai
Dedhia was then given the floor to explain KOJAIN’s scholarship program. He did
that and made a plea for donation for the program and explained the benefit
that young adults receive from this desirable KOJAIN program.
Lataben Champashi, the newly elected JAINA president for the year
2010-2011 showed up at the mini sammelan after completion of closing ceremony
of JAINA. Kalyanjibhai introduced her and Ashokbhai
Savla, the President of Jain Center of Southern California.
Next item on the agenda
was to give platform to three young adults – 20 minutes each - to explain their
project of entrepreneurship. The Master of Ceremony introduced Mala Gada/chaudahri, who had prepared her presentation on Power Point
and used the computer to hook up with the projection screen.
Summary of her
presentation was Mortgage Broker as a career. Main points she outlined were (1)
state/licensing requirement to enter the field (2) different ways of getting
into the field (3) selecting a right company (4) advantages/disadvantages of
picking ‘mortgages’ as a career, (5) personal advantages (6) how can you be
successful in this career? (7) Information on new programs from Fed. (8)
Information on how to deal & what to look for while buying/refinancing the
house? There was plenty of valuable information for audience.
Next came
Nimit Harkhchand Maru, a
young entrepreneur from the Bay Area. He attended
Finally Nisha Vadilal Shah came to make
her Power Point presentation. She holds a BA in Business Administration with a
concentration in Management and a focus on Entrepreneurship from
Nisha is currently a
co-partner in a Web-Based company - RpetsMD, Inc. Her
business will be launching the websitewww.RpetsMD.com sometime this summer. RpetsMD.com is a
Veterinary Locator service that allows pet owners to find the right
veterinarian for their pets (Their tagline is: Helping Pets Find the Right Vet
Everyday). It has been in the building process for the last 2 years. The
service is free to pet owners and for the Veterinarians there is an annual
membership fee. She explained her business plan and research she had collected
before entering into this business.
The program was
concluded with a vote of thanks to all, and chanting Navkar Mantra. Lunch was
arranged for the audience.
With warm regards,
Kalyanji Mota