Washington DC Area General Body Meeting of AID College Park

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Attractions!
-  Meet with AID Jeevan Saathis Ravi and Aravinda, full-time coordinators in India for 7 years
-  Multi-media presentation of AID's Tsunami Rehabilitation efforts
-  Snacks and Refreshments and meeting with refreshing AID volunteers!

Dear friends,

We invite you to the Association for India's Development (AID) General Body Meeting of Washington DC area on May 14. AID thanks you for your generous and continuing support towards our development work in India.


The GBM is an opportunity for you to interact with AID volunteers and know more closely  about our current activities.  Importantly, it is an opportunity for us volunteers to seek your inputs and ideas so that we can serve the cause better. The details of the GBM are given below:

When:     Saturday May 14 at 3.00PM
Where:    Juan Ramon Jimenez Room (2nd Floor of Stamp Student Union)
               University of Maryland,
               College Park, MD -20741.
Contact:  Sandeep Gupta (sangupta@wam.umd.edu)
               Somu Kumar (soomuh@yahoo.com)
Phone  (301)806-1218, (703)728-8987

GBM Agenda:
 
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(1)  Presentation on the activities of AID College Park chapter. A brief description of the various projects supported by AID   
      College Park at
grassroots level in India, fundraising efforts and general chapter affairs.
(2)  Presentation on AID's Tsunami Rehabilitation activities in Tamil Nadu, AP and Andaman & Nicobar
(3)  Discussion with AID Jeevan Saathis, Ravi Kuchimanchi and Aravinda LS,  who are working as full-time coordinators in
      AP and Maharashtra
for more than 7 years.
(4)  Interactive session with donors and community members.

We hope that you will be able to attend and make it an enriching event. The local AID chapter has grown out of the community here, and your attendance would be a great encouragement as well as a chance to deepen our relationship.

AID Volunteers

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*Directions:*
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From Beltway, take Exit 25 to Rt.1 South towards College Park. After 2.5 miles and several lights, make Right on Campus Drive to enter Univ of MD campus. Go past the Big M circle. Pass the bus-stop, and Stamp Student Union is the building on your right. Make a Right on the Union Lane, and park in garage on left. (For directions from Mapquest use Campus Dr. @Union Lane as the destination)

Juan Ramon Jimenez Room:
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Exit towards Union Lane after parking and enter the Stamp Student Union building. A detailed map of the Stamp Student Union can be found at http://www.union.umd.edu/building/maps.html. The Jimenez room is on the Second Floor in Stamp Student Union (No. 11 in the map for second floor)