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Fifth Power of ONE celebrates Cultural Diversity |
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Apr 28th 2012, Dover Delaware: Most awaited Fifth Power of One event was celebrated with presence of over 250 guests at famous and elegant Biggs Museum of city. The Honorable Carlton Carey, Mayor of The City of Dover, The Honorable Brian Bushweller, State Senator, 17th District, Mike Hoffman, President of Dover Art League, Linda Laired - Dover High School, George Baily from Sam's Club along with Miss Delaware Maria Cahill and many other dignitaries graced the occasion and addressed to the guests.
The theme of the event was formatted to highlight multi-culture focusing on food, music and dance. Bollywood and Classical dances, choreographed by Sanskriti Inamdar and Indu respectively showed the both sides of Indian culture. Hightlight of event was a modern dance choreographed by Carol Brown on the song “The Power of ONE”. Jian Wei sang a beautiful Chinese Song.
Show was started with Rich Strusowaski’s light song with guitar and later Kahlil Shaw’s The Soul Unit band turned this into rock mode. Miss Delaware spent lot of time with children and got pictures. She was generous to let the children borrow her crown and sash to get the pictures. Children had memorable moment.
This event was sponsored by Walmart Foundation, Dr. Sambhab Kumar, Satish Dola - Delasoft Inc, CNT Infotech, Dr Ganesh Balu - Pain Management Rehabilitation,Tajesh Patel - TDP Wireless INC and Dr. Duggal and Family – Endocrinology Consultant PA. Flavor of India, Abbott’s Grill, Cajan Queen Cuisine, My Romas, and Fordham Brewing sponsored food and drinks. Dover High School Culinary baked cookies and donated deserts. Many local businesses and individuals donated new and antique pieces for silent auction. Liquors stores sponsored wines for the event.
This event was organized jointly by Dover's Cultural exchange and Be Educated Movement. Past four events raised over $29,000 and this year the estimate is to raise over $10,000. Proceeds will go to Dover High School Art Program, Dover Art League Summer Children's Art Program, Peace Train by Sharon Katz Peace Train and Be Educated Movement - Global Library Program . The Power of One also released a booklet to mark this occasion.
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Be Educated Library changed my life |
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Success story of a Girl from Pakistan Be Educated Library
The story is about a girl named Faiza Jabeen, a student of 9th grade. She lives in Naukot of Sindh Province in Pakistan. Her father is a shopkeeper (auto parts shop) by profession and mother is a housewife. They live their life with difficulties and they hardly earn enough money to spend in their daily life. In this story we would like to throw some lights on a brilliant student who regularly used our library facilities and got benefitted. When I spoke with her she shared her experience. She said “I am studying in a very respectable school of my city, ‘Ideal Public School’. But before discussing my success story I want to share my ideas about success”.
When I was younger, I thought success was something different. I thought when I grow up, I want to be famous, I want to be a star, I want to see the world, I want to study in the best Educational Institution. But today my idea of success is quite different. For me now the most important thing in life is to live my life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure. To live your life as an honest person and contribute in some way or other; these things are important and necessary if you are a student.
When I was in primary school, my learning progress was not as good as compared to what it is now, because there were not many books for me to study. When I joined junior high school, I was fortunate enough to become a member of “Be Educated Movement” Library and it was the first step towards a new life! There are lot of books on various topics and not only the ones related to our syllabus but also a lot for reading during your leisure time. After joining the “Be-Educated” library my academic progress has improved day by day. My test score was just 70% when I was in class 7th and it further improved up to 85% in class 8th and I strongly hope that it will be much better in the later years as well. Now I can say that success in education requires discipline, sincerity and hard work, but only if you are not frightened by these things, the opportunities are much better now than they have ever been before”. I am very thankful to Be Educated, it provided us a better environment to study and progress further in life and now I have advised my friends to join as well so that they might also have a bright future, just like me.
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