President's Message
Mr. Sundar Joshi, President FNA, West Palm Beach
Dear members and friends of FNA,
First of all a very happy Nepali new year 2065. May this
year bring prosperity and hope to all Nepalese people living
in Nepal and around the world and of course our state of
Florida.
FNA would like to thank all of you for your generous
support, cooperation and contribution on making our annual
Nepali new year 2065 picnic program in Orlando a grand
success. This year about 75 members/friends participated in
the program. It is so encouraging to see our Nepali
community here in State of Florida growing with the great
pride and unity. And it was nice to see plenty of new faces.
Welcome to all the new friends.
Our very special thanks to:
1. Executive Committee members, Past Presidents and
Advisors.
2. Organizing Team Mr. Nabin Sapkota, Mr. Rajendra Shrestha
and Mr. Bikash Devkota.
3. Our Guest poet, writer and editor of Nepali Bi-weekly
news paper Vishwaparikrama Mr. Govinda Giri "Prerana".
4. All sponsors of food items.
5. Extra ordinary volunteers Ms. Binita Devkota and Ms.
Ashmita Devkota. We value your enthusiasm to serve our
community. Also thanks to all other volunteers from Orlando
area.
6. Photographer Mr. Dhan Thapa for capturing each and every
moments of event. Hope we can see his talent in our website
very soon.
Since our guest was a poet, the poetry recitation program
was an exciting event, though we had only three poets
available at the moment, poet Govinda Giri, poet Bikash
Devkota and poet Nabin Sapkota. A caricature of Mr. Madav
Kumar Nepal (Makune) by Mr. Bikash Devkota was another
surprising item we really enjoyed. Lastly, we would like to
thank you all for participating in other programs like
Tol-Mol-Ke-Bol, Raffle and Antakchari.
Our next big program is the Dashain party. This year’s
Dashain party will be held in West Palm Beach, FL. It may be
too early but, we would like to hear suggestions, advice and
ideas so we can make this event a grand success like all
pervious Dashain events.
By the way, this year for the first time FNA is going to
participate in ANA Convention in Baltimore with our very own
soccer (football) team. FNA is going to organize a fund
raising program to support our team with the registration
and some other expenses. Information about this fund raising
program will be posted in our website very soon and an email
reminder will also be sent out.
Your feedback will definitely help us to improve future
events.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
- Mr. Sundar Joshi
President
FNA Florida-Nepal Association
