7th Anniversary - August 2020

COVID could not stop us and our elders from having a blast on our 7th anniversary! We also went online like everyone else and held a virtual anniversary celebration on 20 August, 2020. We planned the event for over a month, taking care to ensure that it would be easy for the elders to participate. Hence most of the formal sessions were recorded and the informal event alone was kept open, live.

The program started with an invocation on Lord Ganesha by Srikumar. Sabita gave a presentation on UDHAVI and introduced its core team. Videos of testimonials from our sponsors and wellwishers, Nina Reddy, Dr Kannan Pugazhenthi and Dr Sridhar Vaitheeswaran, were played. Some of our elders including Sunanda Ghosh, Sharmila on behalf of her mother Anjali Sen) and Kalpagam gave us warm testimonials and narrated how they benefited through UDHAVI's intervention. The event concluded with songs by Sudha, Kalpagam and others. Nina Reddy, our ever-present sponsor, was gracious enough to send over snacks to the entire UDHAVI family - volunteers and beneficiaries. Though the COVID situation has put a bent in our works, we are still going strong and continuing with our mission as much as possible.