WINTER FEST 2011 - TEAM INDIA EVENT REVIEW:

Team India hosted “Winter Fest 2011”. Team India is a very well run organization that does a great job back home in India by improving schools. They have done wonderful projects in India. The organization is funded by people who are living in the US and the money is collected by membership, conducting Cultural events in winter and Sporting events during summer. The money collected will be given to an Individual who will execute a small or a medium size project. A unique thing about this process is the money will be given to one of the members who are part of Team India. The project will be executed by the Members Parents or Close Friends who will have a complete control over the project. After the project is completed a video or pictures will be presented to other members in such events which will explain what benefits the project did to the school back home. We get a good
feel of where our money that we contributed goes and how we made difference in schools back home.

One thing that I noticed as an outsider to this organization is the way these guys work together to put a show or an event. The amount they charge for such events is just One Dollar entry fee. Most of the work is done by volunteers like us in the community like making food, selling food for extremely low cost. I was surprised to see how many young kids in the age of 7 to 12 were running around and selling Vadas, Brownies, Pizza,
Tea and coffee to support a kids who are back home in India to have a good quality of education. As we all know the public schooling system in India needs a lot of help. Kids back home do not have a great school to go to. Rich people still overcome the lack of good schools by paying money or by sending their kids to a private tutor. If you go to country side in India you still see poverty, lack of good schools, lack of infrastructure in schools, lack of good library and lack of good teacher to take care of the children studying there. They seriously need some help. We all know that the best thing to gift a kid is to educate them in the right directions. I am so proud that people in our community right here in Columbus are stepping up to do a
wonderful job to help kids back home.

For the past few years Team India has come up a long way in doing service like this. We are still growing organization compared to bigger organization and there is no doubt that Team India will be big soon. We cut all the overhead and do the best so that we maximize the money collected to send it back home. The summer festival Team India hosted drew more than 300 people. The best thing about this organization is every member who is coming for these events come with one goal. “Support Schools in India”.

The Winter Fest 2011 was organized in a grand way this year in Westerville Public school and there were more than 300 People who attended this event. There were about 45 Adults who participated in this mega event and there were about 50 kids who performed in various cultural activities. The energy and the
enthusiasm was outstanding. The programs were very unique and were well organized.

The Kids fashion show was outstanding with more than 20 kids participating in the event. Unlike other fashion shows these kids were dressed as Lord Muruga and lots of Amman characters. It was an outstanding job by kids. Hats off to them. There was a musical treat by kids from our community who performed Violin, Band and it was an outstanding job by them. They have put in lots of effort. The Best show of the day of “Genie the Robot” show performed by Karthik and company. It was an outstanding show. It was a 20 minute show and it was very well received. The actors in the show did a great job. It was almost like watching a Robo movie. The theme was a fight between Good Robot and an Evil one. The background music was mind blowing. I am sure that this show is going to be a super hit in other stages as well. The couple dance which is a trade mark of Team India was well received by the local audience. These are the guys who we know for a long time and they performed couple dance with a nice village background. Great job guys. Yes there was a fashion show as well performed by Family members of our Columbus area community. It was a great display of Western and India costumes. Last but not least is the “Sangeeth Concoction” program performed by Prasanna Malur and Team. What a great show. The only issue was there was not enough time left over for our members to perform the show. All the cultural events ended at 9 PM. The show lasted from 4:30 till 9 PM. So a good 4 and half hours of non stop entertainment ended.

LOLLU COMMENTS:

An outstanding show for a very good cause. I have been here in Columbus, OH for more than 12 Years now. I have been part of various organizations and I have visited almost all the events that happen in Columbus for the last 12 years. When I go to the events organized by Team India I don’t just go for entertainment. I go for a good cause and I come back home with a great feeling that I have done something today than usual. Can you imagine these guys are putting a huge show like this for Just ONE DOLLAR as entry fee? Its Just ONE DOLLAR contribution that goes towards Improving schools in India. All the money that they collect is by selling food, Vadas at a very nominal cost. I am not even sure how they are doing this. All are home cooked food that they sell for 2 $ and 1 $. You have to see the kids running around to sell the food. It’s simply a good and unbelievable feeling. All that I say is let’s keep the momentum going in our community. We all should support events like this and encourage the organizers to do more events like this. I think we get enough entertainment from various different places. India Team will entertain to the core and at the same time your money is going to a great cause. You make a difference in the community by supporting and participating in such good cause.

They are looking for more volunteers, more members so that we can go to the next level. Please feel free to contract one of the Team India Members and show your support by volunteering for future event. Team India will host couple of sporting events next summer. Please Show your support and make a difference in schooling system in India.

More Information about India Team can be found at: http://indiateam.org/