Luckily between December to March lot of Indian community activities are lined up like Anand Bazar, Day with India , Ugadi festivities etc. One of my colleagues (Nath) is an active member in IAGG (Indian Association of Greater Greenville) and I approached him to check if I can put a stall during Anand Bazar to introduce our Indian community towards JET and our philanthropic work. It was a great success and many parents were happy that such great things are done by our organization and they agreed to support in what ever manner it’s possible, especially Mr and Mrs Gopal.

Looking at the enthusiasm from many parents, I requested IAGG president Mr. Subhash if we can use Vedic center to have a session on VT Seva and he readily agreed. Mrs Mythili Gopal agreed to coordinate for the session and send mails out to all families in greenville. March 15, Dr Vinatha Pasaru was very supportive and they drove almost 3 hrs to Greenville to give presentation and motivational talk on VTSeva. During presentation 15 kids and their parents came and to everyone’s surprise almost all were boys.

To keep the enthusiasm going we decided to put a stall during “Day with India” program, which is held once in 2 years to introduce India to Americans. This was a very good opportunity for us to introduce to people about VT Seva and few kids volunteered with me in the stall and were a great help. As they say all great journeys’ start with the first step and I am proud to say that we have taken the first Giant leap in Greenville
On April 12 we had our fist VTSeva volunteer meeting and it was a great success. Lot of new ideas came up and were debated. Agenda for the first year was set.

Sincerely,
Ram Prasad Yamijala