Hindu YUVA, University of Washington

Run Forrest Run! (Click for album)

Around half a dozen volunteers from HY went to help organise the SeaFair marathon. The marathon is a huge operation. Around 26 miles of course that needs to kept safe for the runners. The WA-520 bridge was closed too for the marathon. We were stationed at different intersections as ‘course marshalls’. Course marshalls keep the course safe by preventing vehicles to run in the same lane as the runners and also encourage the runners. We reached our positions around 7 am. We were given a bag with some water, a fruit, some instructions and posters with the words ‘Run, Run’.After about half an hour we could see the red and blue flashing lights or a couple of police bikes slowly coming towards us. They were escorting the leading pack of runners, about half a dozen Kenyans and one caucasian. I showed my ‘Run, Run’ sign enthusuastically but the runners were too busy concentraing on te race. Only the police stared at me. After another 13 mins a trickle of runners started and it grew slowly.

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Namaskar,

Introducing HY Classifieds! The Indian community on campus is very active. We keep getting requests from students about helping them publicize some of the events they are organizing or involved in, about finding them a room mate, selling furniture, buying a car… And we really couldn’t decide till now if our website is the right place to publicize those events.

So we decided to come up with this page, HY Classifieds - where students can publicize their events, find roomates. Think of it as a small billboard for posts relevant to students interested in Indians or Indian culture.

Well, so go ahead and send us your name, email and publicity material at hyuva at u dot washington dot edu.

We are proud to announce that Shikta Sapkota, a student of Political Science department at UW has decided to volunteer for the ‘Yuva for Sewa’ (Youth for Service) project through HinduYUVA. Indeed it is a matter of great pride for us as she is the second person from HY(Shobhit Mathur being the first one who volunteered to serve in the Caribbean) to do so. And she happens to be the first woman to do so too. Last Saturday we gave her a small farewell party at an ice-cream shop and asked her about her motivation and plans. HY: So Shikta what motivated you to volunteer for ‘Yuva for Sewa’ ?

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Coming Saturday, June 7, we all will have a wonderful opportunity to meet Ramesh Shah ji,
the vice president of Ekal Vidyalaya, US. For more information about Ekal see http://ekal.org

Date: Saturday June 7
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Venue: 4250 Aurora Ave N Apt # A305 Seattle WA 98103 (Please note, venue changed)

6 to 7 will be presentation about ekal/discussion with Ramesh ji. This will be followed by
potluck dinner (If you can bring something for potluck, please mail me back).

Ramesh ji’s brief bio:

Ramesh Shah is a member of the Executive Management Team at Ekal Vidhyala Foundation of the USA. He has been working tirelessly as a volunteer with Ekal for the last 5 years, helping them set up the financial and governance structure in the US, fundraising for schools and educating various communities about the need to support education in the rural and tribal areas in India, where there is nothing. He is passionate about education because coming from a rural village himself, he has benefited from the educational opportunities he has received. Besides his personal passion with Ekal, Ramesh Shah is also a Vice President at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter where he is financial adviser. Prior to join Morgan Stanley, Rameshji worked as an engineer with Bechtel and MW Kellogg. His personal passion however is building community. He helped start the Gujarati Samaj of Houston, the India Culture Center, Bal Vihars, Hindu Heritage Camps, and has been the driving force for community events in Houston, always looking for ways to bring the community together. Rameshji is originally from Gabat in Gujarat, received his BS degree from Baroda University, has a masters in Economic from University of Houston and an MBA from Pace University in New York.

Welcome to HinduYUVA’s brand new website ! Here’s a round up of all the new features we have…

• Simple, clean and beautiful UI
• More interactive, you can leave comments now…
• Categories section in the sidebar present that can help you find posts by subject
• Archives section in the sidebar helps you find posts by time
• Cool Photogallery
• Easier for us to operate too…

Feel free to browse around and let us know how you feel about it.