JAINA Convention 2005 07 JCNC

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Additionally, YJP has played an active role in the last three JAINA conventions and the last two YJA conventions. For the YJA conventions, YJP assisted with programming for the older participants. For the JAINA conventions, YJP has been responsible for the programming for the older youth. Besides doing conventions, in the last couple of years, YJP has been attempting to establish a local presence and support forming local YJP chapters in many cities across the country. This has been done through the Local Leader program, and by organizing social events such as din
WORLD ners in various cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. JAINA
COMMUNITY leaders must be congratulated for crafting this migration path for our youth to participate at various levels. JAINA only appoints one individual as YJA and YJP coor- SERVICE: dinator and both youth organizations operate independently with their own by-laws, finances and organizational structures. JAINA's foresight in developing future lead-
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Established in ers in our community will certainly dawn one day when a graduate of YJA or YJP 1991 under the will be at the helm of JAINA.
chairmanship of WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE: Established in 1991 under the chairman
irman: Dr. Dhiraj Shah, ship of Dr. Dhiraj Shah, the World Community Service (WCS) Committee has carried out relief operations around the world wherever natural disasters have struck. For
the World Example, WCS has helped victims of the earthquakes in Latur (Maharashtra), North Ridge (California), Uttar Kashi (U.P.), Kobe (Japan), and Kutch (Gujarat). WCS Community conducted Medical Camps in Kutch, Veerayatan, Pune and Mangrol (India), helped war victims in Rawanda, adopted 2 villages in Kutch after the cyclone, provided
Service (WCS) financial help to war victims of Kosovo, and rebuilt a village in Orissa. In Kutch after
fter Committee has the earthquake, WCS helped build 250 homes, rebuilt a community center and a primary school. Annually, WCS organizes and donates a number of medical equip- carried out relief ments, clothes, blankets, wheelchairs, and dental chairs in India. WCS started medical camps at Bidada, Kutchh. Eventually the managment of these camps were taken
operations over by the Jain Center of Southern California. The Jain Center of Southern
around the California has been successfully managing Bidada medical camps for the past 14 years.
world wherever In 1996, the US agency for International Development awarded the World NUTUTUL Uisusters
World natural disasters Community Service of JAINA a certificate of Registration, only the second Indian
have struck American organization to be so recognized. With this recognition, WCS became eligible to receive USAID funds for aid projects in India and a blanket certificate to export equipment and other items for humanitarian aid anywhere in the world. Later in June of that year, the Ministry of External affairs and the Ministry of Welfare and Social affairs of the Government of India recognized JAINA as an agency under Indo US Bilateral Agreement. With this recognition, JAINA is eligible to send various humanitarian aid materials to any registered charitable institutions in India duty free. Due to all of these humanitarian activities, JAINA has been solicited by many
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