Comedy For A Cause - Fundraiser in New York City

A packed house and some great comics made our first major fundraiser in New York, "Comedy For A Cause" a big success.

We were able to raise enough funds for the treatment of two cancer patients. Since we serve the underprivileged, this helps save not just the patients but also their families. We want to thank everyone who bought tickets to our event and let them know that their gesture will help bring back hope in the lives of ten individuals (two families).

We will keep you posted about the progress of the two patients that are supported through these funds.

Huge thanks to all the comics - Dan Nainan (host), Alex Carabano, Gibran Saleem, Ashley Brooke Roberts, Sandip Buch, Joel Chasnoff, Rahul Galasamharamoorthy, Narinder Singh and Chis Jonesy Jones. Special shout out to Narinder for helping organize the event.

We have included some pictures from the event below.

Jasmine Narula joins our board

Jasmine has been a volunteer for Sahayta over the years and today we are really excited to have her officially join our board. Her extensive non-profit experience and network will be extremely valuable as we expand our activities in the New York.

Bio

Jasmine is passionate about bringing people together and has a long history as a community leader, fundraiser and volunteer for various professional and charitable organizations.

She is the former Chairperson of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Network of Indian Professionals. She has also served as a Community Adviser on a board studying cardiovascular disease in the South Asian diaspora in Northern California. When she moved to New York in 2004, she established a Meetup Group called "Sikhs in the City", which promotes social, cultural, educational and community service events to Punjabi and Sikh professionals in New York City.

She is also an active volunteer and fundraiser for SAMAR (the South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters), and the Sikh Coalition.

Jasmine has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her parents emigrated from Punjab to the United States in the late 1960s and she maintains strong cultural and familial ties to India, particularly Chandigarh and Amritsar, which she visits every one to two years.

Sahayta annual newsletters now available online

We are very excited that our annual newsletters are now available on our website! The newsletters are published every July in India and cover all our events & activities from the past one year along with articles from survivors, doctors and other experts. The newsletters can be found under News & Updates tab on our website (also shown in pic below).

Sharing newsletters online is not only environmentally friendly but also allows us to share our achievements with a much broader audience.

We currently have newsletters available for the past three years (2009-2011) and will be adding more in the near future.