Dear NASeA Community,
It has been 12 months since I and my fellow executive officers took office and vowed to serve you and our great organization NASeA. I wanted to list out some of our key accomplishment during the past 12 months below which I will also be presenting to the NASeA General Assembly on Sunday, Sep 02 in Indianapolis at the ANMA NASeA Convention.
NASeA Guides on five differents topics:
NASeA has published four different guides on different social, community and cultural topics to assists individuals and organization plan and execute different activities. These guides include ‘How to organize blood drive’, ‘How to organize Walk and Run Event, Measures to take for the Safety and Security for Nepali employee working for Convenience Store/ Gas Station and ‘How to Organize Dheusi Bhailo in your City and State.
These guides are available at http://naseaonline.info/?page_id=1597 . Also published is the “proceedings of the 2011 NASeA ANMA Convention held in Atlanta http://naseaonline.info/?page_id=1597
Several other guides are being prepared and be shortly released including ‘How to Establish and Maintain Nepali Language School in the US’.
Community Services:
Blood Drive: Over 400 units of blood collected through the 7 blood drives that Dr. Lila Bdr. Karki coordinated through the Community Services Committee of NASeA collected have saved 1200 lives.
Emergency funds: The committee also raised funds over $7000 emergency funds over the past year to help the needy both in the US and in Nepal.
Tax information that NASeA tax professional Kumar Bhandari provided benefitted many http://naseaonline.info/?page_id=1249
Emerging and Outstanding Leadership Award will be presented by the NASeA Community Services Committee at the Indinapolis convention to the emerging and established social leaders who have been consistently providing services to Nepali community.
Monthly Activities:
The twelve different Monthly Talk Sessions that Ram Baral organized as the chair of Public Relations Committee brought 12 great personalities in 12 monthly talk session in the past year from around the world who have kept the name of Nepal and Nepali high and who have inspired thousands others.
Children Webinars that Sangita Dongol and Sushma Bajracharya organized every month via Children and Youth Committee encouraged children in different parts of the United States to share not only their interest and hobbies but highlight Nepali heritage and culture.
Monthly Satsang through Cultural Committee and its chair Janak Baral invited different spiritual and religious people through NASeA TV. Some recorded activities have been
archived for your viewing http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasea-tv
Yoga on the Web that we had planned to broadcast every month will be resumed shortly.
Finances:
NASeA has a total balance of $45,445.83 in bank according to NASeA treasurer Gobinda Shrestha. This is an increase of about $14,000 from the last convention in Altanta from which time me and my fellow executive members took office. Recently we have established the bylaws mandated Finance Committee whose members include former president Tek Thapa, former treasurer and vice president Ram Dongol, NCNC board of Director Madhav Bhattarai, NASeA treasurer and NASeA President. This committee provide guidance and supervision on financial activities.
Advocacy of Human Rights and provision of Immigration Information:
NASeA through Immigration and Human Rights Committee raised strong voice against the violations of human rights of Nepali migrant in Lebanon and middle east http://naseaonline.info/?p=1405 and http://www.janapukar.com/archives/104212/
The chair of the committee Narayan Khadka brought 6 different attorneys in conference calls to answer questions and concern of Nepali immigrants.
Technical assitance to partner organization:
Through External Relations Committee, NASeA provided technical assistance to many nepali organization is cities, states and universities of United States including in Arkansas, Orlando. North Carolina, Nepalese Student Association in Auburn University, Georgia State University. The chair of the Committee Bimal Nepal coordinated nine different monthly networking sessions with these organizations in the past year.
National Conventions of Nepali:
The four NASeA co-chairpersons Ram Dongol, Dr. Ram Baral, Dhana Timilsina and Dr. Dibya Pradhan as well as Gobinda Shrestha, Raja Ghale and Mohan Bista have made outstanding contribution in promoting and stregthening the ANMA NASeA National Convention that being held in Indianapolis beginning Friday, Aug 31 www.jointconvention.org
Membership promotion:
Over 20 new life members joined NASeA over the past year and many are in line of joining life members of NASeA. Vice Presidents duo Ram Dongol and Dhana Timilsina lead multiple projects and represented me in several occasions.
Cultural Promotion:
NASeA and Nepali culture was highly visible in over half dozen international festivals that NASeA tool part in where Nepal booth and Nepali dances were performed by children going to Nepali School. Dipendra Thapa, former president Raja Ghale Sushma Bajracharya, Krishna Shrestha and Sangita Dongol, Sailedra Devkota, Arun Dhital are all to be thanked for their unique role in making these events successful. NASeA was represented widely in the Dasain and New Year festivals organized by Nepali organizations in different cities and states.
Project Promotion:
Seven different projects in Nepal and the US were supported through funds, promotion and technical assistances. NASeA supported project are listed in our weblink below and they include Ganga Ghar, Himalayan Children Charities, Nepal Wireless Project, Ama Nepal, Maiti Nepal, Abi Kattel Foundation www.naseaonline.org
Visibility:
Online, print and radio media has captured various good work NASeA has been doing via their portal. Further NASeA in facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia have enhanced NASeA’s visibility.
NASeA team:
I am proud to work together with professors, engineers, enterpreneurs, people with PhD and masters that comprise my executive team, advisors and former presidents.
Mohan Bista, Kumar KC, Priti Khatri, Madhav Mainali, Hari Bhandari, Madav Dhakal, Choodamani Khanal and Dr. Tilak Shrestha contributed in strengthening the regional structure and adding to the quality service of organization. Dr. Bishwa Acharya, Saubhagya Shrestha, Bob Gerzoff, Dr. Prakash Malla, Dr. Prahlad Pant, Bala Pant, Tek Thapa, Bhaskar Dawadi, Shakti Aryal, Raja Ghale, Tara Pun, Khusi Ram Tiwari, Dr. Nayaran Rajbhandari, Suman Silwal, Shailendra Bajracharya, Saunak Ranjitkar, Srijana Sharma, Gobhardan Shrestha and Lekh Sharma have provided critical support in different times that has supported NASeA to a great extent. Vice president duo Mr. Timilsina and Mr. Dongol led several events that brought good name to NASeA. As the longest running officer, Ram Dongol’s experience continue to provide key support in many activities NASeA fulfills.
Nepalese Cultural Centers:
Orlando and Atlanta and the Nepali organizations in each of these cities have done a great deal of groundwork towards the establishment of Nepalese Cultural Center. NASeA is continually supporting the efforts lead by Dr. Prahlad Pant in Atlanta and Krishna Pokhrel in Orlando in helping materialize the dream of their team for a physical structure that Nepali community could call a home. The first walk and run event http://naseaonline.info/?p=1332 that Dipedra Thapa coordinated in March and that he would coordinating in November will promote and raise funds for the cultural center.
Governance:
For all of the above activities to happen a strong governance was needed. That was provided by 14 different executive meetings over the past 12 months in different cities of Tampa, Alpharetta, Clarkston, Louiville, Columbia and Lawrenceville. Besides, NASeA general Secretary Sagun Shrestha have been providing providing strong administrating and IT support who updates NASeA website almost daily and who upload all minutes for your viewing at http://naseaonline.info/?p=1405
Sincerely,
Sanjeeb Sapkota
NASeA President
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