Dear Anavil Friends

Most of us have been in this country for more than twenty five or thirty years. Some of us are here more than forty years. Lot has changed in the community in these years. Our children grew up and have started their own family. Some  of us are now retired. Let us look back at our life and see what we contributed towards our community.

I am now trying to compile our experiences in the form of an article or two, in our next directory. Keeping in mind that most of us we are not experience writers, I have decided to list our experiences in the form of comments (paragraph of two). Here are some topics as suggestions
            i) work experiences – difficulty and/or progress 
            ii) social problems – good or bad
            iii) Family issues – here and back home
            iv) Children education, marriage hurdles and achievement
            v) Religious progress and Samaj contribution
            vi) Cultural activities and contribution
            vii)  Any area of community interests

If you are to comment on problems please also include your suggestions to cures them. If you are a writer and can share observation we will publish it as a separate article.I am also trying to publish photographs of our villages where we came from to preserve our heritage. Space permitting we will try to include historical highlight of villages.

Some of our friends feel very strongly about children life partner search and feel guilty that we are not doing enough for them and we should do something as a community. Please suggest some do able solutions we will try to implement.

Please be active and contribute. I need your help.

Harshad Desai
Columbia SC
May 2009