Dubai, Apr 5: Kannada Geleyara Balaga, a newly formed association comprising of various like-minded Kannadigas residing in U.A.E. recently conducted their first programme 'Kalba Pravasa' and also conducted a blood donation camp at Sheikha Latifa Hospital where large number of Kannadigas came to donate their blood for a good cause.
After the success of these two programmes, Kannada Geleyara Balaga organised a ‘Vana Bhojana 2013’ last week at Zabeel Park, Dubai where several Kannadiga families participated in the function. Inspite of a busy weekend, nearly 250 Kannadigas assembled to participate in the activities conducted by the association.
Prashanth Raghavendra and Prema Negalur compered the programme while Satish Chakravarthy conducted the registration process. Main executive member Natarajaiah was present during the programme, which was inaugurated by chief convenor Prashanth Raghavendra with a welcome address.
As part of sports activities, dodge ball and other games were organised for men & women in four teams. The main attraction of the day was colouring competition for children in two separate categories where a lot of children enthusiastically participated in the competition. The competitions were conducted by Jyothirmayi and Prakash.
Members of the association Umesh Narayan, Sanjeeva, Denzil, Suresh, Suryanarayana, Ravi Kumar and Kiran conducted several games for couples. Many other games for men, women and children were conducted. Every sport had tough competition. Winners received prizes for each sporting activity.
The after-lunch session included 'Rasa Prashne' a quiz competition quizzing participants about Karnataka as a state. This was followed by Anthakshari singing programme while Smitha and Shwetha rendered melodious numbers which was greatly appreciated by the audience.
The 'logo' of the association was released by Tippu Sultan and Chandrashekar Sankole. The logo was designed by Srinivas Reddy who was honoured during the programme. President Iranna Mulimani spoke and distributed prizes to the winners of the day's activities.
The programme concluded with a vote of thanks.
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