White House to host Hindu meet
18 May 2012 5:56 AM GMT
The White House and an organisation of the Hindu American community will co-host the 2012 National Seva Conference, where participants would discuss community service, innovation and tradition.
The two-day event from 3 - 4 August is being co-hosted by the Hindu American Seva Charities (HASC) in association with the White House Office of Public Engagement, Office of Faith Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships and President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. HASC is an American organisation advancing seva (community service), interfaith collaboration, pluralism, social justice and sustainable civic engagement to ignite grassroots social change and build healthy communities. HASC said the event would also mark introduction of the Next Generation Seva Leaders (NGSL) programme to promote seva and to address social justice issues. This is an innovative civic and service leadership programme to impact change and encourage new community service ideas.
The goal for the applicants is to develop impactful service projects that they can commit to doing in any of their own communities, HASC said.
'We hope with this understanding, the participants will use to alleviate current social justice issues,' Shekar Narasimhan, founding Board member, said.
INDIANS HONOURED FOR THEIR SERVICE
Eight Indian-Americans are among the recipients of this year's Ellis Island Medal of Honour presented to more than 100 immigrants for their community service. The eight were presented the medal at a ceremony on the island in New York. Instituted in 1986 by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations to recognise the contributions made by immigrants, the medals are named after Ellis Island, the gateway through which more than 12 million early immigrants passed.
The two-day event from 3 - 4 August is being co-hosted by the Hindu American Seva Charities (HASC) in association with the White House Office of Public Engagement, Office of Faith Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships and President's Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. HASC is an American organisation advancing seva (community service), interfaith collaboration, pluralism, social justice and sustainable civic engagement to ignite grassroots social change and build healthy communities. HASC said the event would also mark introduction of the Next Generation Seva Leaders (NGSL) programme to promote seva and to address social justice issues. This is an innovative civic and service leadership programme to impact change and encourage new community service ideas.
The goal for the applicants is to develop impactful service projects that they can commit to doing in any of their own communities, HASC said.
'We hope with this understanding, the participants will use to alleviate current social justice issues,' Shekar Narasimhan, founding Board member, said.
INDIANS HONOURED FOR THEIR SERVICE
Eight Indian-Americans are among the recipients of this year's Ellis Island Medal of Honour presented to more than 100 immigrants for their community service. The eight were presented the medal at a ceremony on the island in New York. Instituted in 1986 by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations to recognise the contributions made by immigrants, the medals are named after Ellis Island, the gateway through which more than 12 million early immigrants passed.
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