Sahayta awarded Google Grant - May 2007

Google has selected Sahayta as one of the organizations under its Google Grants Program that provides in kind advertising to select non-profit organizations. We can use this award for free AdWords advertising on Google.com to raise awareness and increase traffic to our website.

To see the impact of this grant, type “cancer charity India” on google.com and see the top link.

Sahayta thanks Google for making it a part of their generous program

Sahayta South Asian Art Exhibition - March 2007

Sahayta organized an art exhibtion and auction in downtown Boston on March 30th 2007. The event, which was held at 2 art galleries (next door to each other) provided a unique showcase of works by 11 South Asian painters, sculptors, photographers and film makers from New England. Over 100 people enjoyed an evening of fine art over wine, cheese and hors d’oeuvres.

Boston Sculptor’s Gallery featured a silent auction of two dimensional art (paintings/pictures) by the following six artists.

Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper, Aparna Agarwal, Mahendar Paul, Noel Bonam, Ayesha Khan, and Fozia Vasowalla.

Bernard Toale’s Gallery featured multi-media presentations on the effect of 9/11 on the South Asian Diaspora by the following five artists.

Gabriel Brown (photographs), Aimara Lin (photographs), Valarie Kaur (documentary), Ambreen Butt (paintings), Sarbani Hazra(poetry).

The event helped raise $2000. This money will be used to fund the complete chemotherapy treatment for 3 patients and fund the education of 10 children for 1 year. Thanks to the entire Sahayta team which worked tirelessly for the past few months to put this event together (see pic below).

Sahayta/NETSAP Happy Hour Jan 2007

Sahayta in partnership with NETSAP(Network of South Asian Professionals) organized a Happy Hour at Tonic, a trendy bar in Allston, MA on Jan 18th.

NETSAP generously donated all proceeds from the ticket sales to Sahayta. The event was really successful with approximately 80 people showing up to show their support for Sahayta.

The Sahayta board thanks NETSAP Boston for organizing the event and looks forward to partnering with them again in the future.