CHICAGO: Share-a-Smile Chicago (SASC) hosted its annual fundraiser to aid senior citizens with an evening of entertainment on Friday, March 16 at India House Banquet Hall in Schaumburg, Ill with close to 400 people attending.’
This year’s beneficiaries were Sukhdham, an organization that serves abandoned parents on the outskirts of Delhi, the Barrington Area Council on Aging (BACOA), and other charities.
Event coordinator was SASC Founder Sushma Bhanot. SASC President Trupti Kuvadia gave the welcome speech. Master of ceremonies was Dan Nainan. Largely targeting teenagers, often having communication problems with their parents and divergent expectations, he played a great deal on his own mixed parentage with a Malayalee (Keralite) father and Japanese mother.
Talented youth from across Chicagoland performed dances from China, India, Middle-East and Mexico. There were in all seven dances, starting with AR Rahman’s “Jai Ho” choreographed by Kuvadia. An Indian medley was performed by middle school girls choreographed by Anjali Patel and Shriya Patel.
Barrington Middle School kids presented the lyrical “Ho hey” by the Lumineers. This version was choreographed by Serena Shah. Barrington High School Dance Group presented Bollywood-inspired “Chamak challo” an Indo-Western fusion medley choreographed by Sanaa Walia and Akash Khurana.
SASC, focused on giving back to seniors and the underprivileged in Barrington and Chicagoland, then reaching out to India and elsewhere.
It showed slide of Sukhdam and of its work across Chicago area. Previous fundraisers have contributed to a senior home Sukhdham and international eye care foundation in India, welfare projects in Africa, educare.org and flood relief in Haiti. Sukhdham in New Delhi houses “orphaned” seniors who have been abandoned by their family.
Asian Media USA
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