CONCERT
RAISES $250,000 FOR DEAF INDIA
Project
Deaf India held its first fund raising program at the famous Robert B Moore
Auditorium of Orange Coast College and raised over $250,000.
Dr Raj Desai, founder of Project Deaf India,
lit the ceremonial lamp to inaugarate the event.
With him is his daughter, Nalini..
Note: For large view, press on photo's
The
show started with a "A Dance Journey Through Cultural India
by the Mysore Nagaraj Group after a delicious buffet feast of Indian
food.
Kathak
Dancers at the fundraiser
The dance program
included a Ganesh
Stuti in the yakshagan style.
The charity, which was established in 1998 by retired
cancer specialist Dr Rajendra Desai with the help of the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa
and the Rotary Club of Mysore India, attracted a crowd of 700 for the three hour
program. About 120 deaf persons enjoyed the program as well.
Dr Raj recently donated $100,000 to the project with a
Rotary matching grant application. And a glimpse of the deaf
world to the hearing audience was portrayed by CJ Jones,
a successful black, deaf enteratiner in his early forties when
he presented a half hour comedy act.
Funds
from the Rotary Clubs and the Rotary International Foundation have
provided a mobile detecting unit for early diagnosis of deafness, hearing aids
for deaf children and the training of teaching Sign Language, Lip Reading and
Speech.
The
Dance Journey Through Cultural India was hosted by Victoria Avery, Past
President of the Rotary Club of Mission Viejo, which also is a sponsor of
Project Deaf India.
Shown is Jim de Boom, Past Disrict Governor District 5320
and a member and Past president of the Rotary Club of
Newport Balboa, California who was also part of the
program
Click here for a list of
our sponsors
This program
sponsors all India deaf children which will educate and
rehabilitate them. With your continued support we can help the poor
deaf children of India become self supporting and respectable citizens.
