March 1, 2018 -- Our speaker was Rosario A. Puga-Dempsey. She is the Spanish Services Manager at Kara. Kara is a non-profit organization that offers a safe and caring environment where those coping with death and dying can express and normalize their feelings of grief.Their peer support model advocates listening, speaking, and acting from the heart in service to others. Kara is a self-referral organization and their services are offered to individuals, families and organizations in the Bay Area community.
March 15, 2018 -- Our speaker was Kayla Ladd from the International Rescue Committee. They help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster.They help the world's worst humanitarian crises and focus to restore health, safety, education, economic well being and power to the devastated people.
Kayla is the Community Outreach Specialist for the Immigration Program at the International Rescue Committee in Northern California. They serve communities in need and ensure refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, and immigrants have access to high quality immigration legal services.
March 22, 2018 – Chester Santos, U.S. Memory Champion, was our speaker this evening.He taught us the basics on how to improve our memory.His presentation was fun and entertaining!
March 29, 2018 -- “When a woman is empowered to support herself, the entire community benefits.” Our speaker was Carmel Jud who founded Rising Internationalin 2002 with a vision of a world where everyone has a chance to prosper. It is the first non-profit to use the home party business model to contribute to solving poverty. Rising International sells crafts made by the world's poorest people - women. In addition, it trains under-employed women in the U.S. to run their own Rising Home Party businesses.
Today, Rising International works with women in 27 countries, focusing on areas of the world where it's the hardest to be alive as a woman. Carmel gave up her business venture, an award-winning advertising and market research firm that she had founded to start Rising International. She has been featured in the press both locally and internationally including as Huffington Post's Greatest Person of the Day. She is a proud recipient of the 2012 Woman of the World award.
District 5170
2018 FLASH CAMPAIGN
When: March 1st to April 30th
What: Donate $50 -- All funds matched 2 to 1 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Your $50 will turn into a
$150 donation to PolioPlus!
Why: "We Are This Close" to ending the dreaded disease of polio. With your support children around the world will be able to walk and play as healthy individuals.
Bollywood film songs have been described as eclectic both in instrumentation and style. They employ many types of instruments showing remarkable inventiveness in melody and instrumental techniques. Sunil will take us through the amazing journey of seventy years of Bollywood Cine music.
Sunil Ramesh graduated from University of California, Berkeley majoring in Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics and has an MBA from Northwestern University. After being with Amazon for a few years as a Product Manager in the area of visual search and augmented reality, he recently joined import.io, as its Vice President. He has been trained in Indian and Western Classical music and is a key member of BOOM, a Bay Area Jazz & Bollywood Music Band that performs for fund-raising for non-profit organizations.
