Dear Samaj Members,
I would like to begin by personally thanking all of you for giving me the opportunity to serve the Panchal Samaj of Ontario as President for the year 2024 and 2025. It is a great honor and privilege to take on this role for the first time and I hope to fulfill its responsibilities to the best of my ability. I look forward to working alongside The Board of Directors/Trustees; a fantastic team consisting of some existing members as well as new members that have just joined, who are full of enthusiasm and fresh ideas.
I joined the Panchal Samaj Committee in 2022 as a Programme Coordinator. This role allowed me to share my ideas as well as learn the procedures from my experienced counterparts. Thank you to the previous committee, who I was able to learn so much from and deeply connect with, for all your hard work in the past 2 years. One of my great joys is to create and foster connection within our community through our Samaj functions, where we all come together and share our mutual respect for each other as well as create an environment of fun and laughter. Ultimately, I would like my children and the children in our community to experience the same joy of coming together and a sense of culture.
Improved Communication Through Social Media:
Our team is already working on many projects for this term. As well as organizing events, we want to improve on making our communications with you better. With access to social media platforms, we feel we will be more effective in keeping you updated with all our activities/opportunities. As well as emails, we will also be posting all future events on Facebook and Instagram. If you are not connected with us through these platforms, you can click on the links below. We also want to implement a Whatsapp Community Channel where you will be sent updates and reminders from us. The majority of our members, from young people to seniors have cell phones and use Whatsapp. Only our team will be able to send messages on this chat and all you have to do is provide your cell phone number. We can also send you messages in Gujarati.
Ticket Pricing & Memberships:
Look out for our “Early Bird” prices for events where you can take advantage of a discounted price for events when you buy tickets in advance. This not only helps you but helps us with organizing the events. We are also implementing Member prices and Non-Member prices for each event. So if you have not already paid your membership, please do so as soon as possible, so you can take advantage of being a member and the discounted tickets for each event.
2024 PSO Garba:
We are very excited to announce that our team is already working hard to have our very own PSO Garba event this year. We will really need your support by attending and/or by sponsoring this event. Please keep an eye out for future updates on this.
How You Can Show Your Support:
There are many ways each of you can support the Samaj events. Not just by attending the events but also by volunteering your time, sharing your talent with our members and by sponsoring specific items or financial support. We will be specifying these opportunities for each event. Feel free to reach out to me or our committee members if you can be of any help or if we can showcase your expertise, talent or hobby at any of our events.
Best Regards,
Alpa Panchal,
President 2024- 2025
Panchal Samaj of Ontario