Valentine Stories in e-Club Houston
Veroniek Kerssemakers - A name change required? Veroniek was a beautiful bride on 31 January, 2016 in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. Congratulations to Vroniek and Her husband, Dharm Pal, from Kerala, India. The wedding was attended by about 30 guests, mostly family and close friends from all around the world.
Priyamvada Singh attended the wedding and shared, "It was a great experience to be a part of this group of friends, wonderful people full of emotional energies and warmth of afection and true bondings. Other Rotarians in the group included Surender Talwar (Houston), Shailja Vijayvargia (Rotary Club Padmini Kota, Rajasthan, India), and Dick from The Netherlands. The honeymooners have been traveling in India - Taj Mahal, Agra, , Pushkar, Ajmer City (visited a project Bal Sansar Ajmer for village children with Priyamvada). We send our Best Wishes for Much Happiness in celebration of your marriage!!!
Priyamvada Singh reported that the newlyweds attended a charity ball, Bai sansar Sanstha' in Ajmer Rajasthan. The Kids of Bai Sansar Public School remembered Veroniek's visit with the D5890 Rotary Friendship Exchange to their school in November, 2014 and expressed their love and gratitude with dancing performances and dialogue with the students. Veroniek addressed the students with words of encouragement and words of appreciation for the work of NGO 'Bai Sansar Sanstha to educate the poor rural kids (90% are first generation learners in their families as their parents are mostly day workers in an unorganized labor sector).
Cagatay (Ty) Atmaca and Elif Esra Ozyurt are planning their wedding ceremony in May, 2016. Cagatay Ty Atmaca, who is a Houston Rotary E-club member, a consultant geophysicist at Paradigm Geophysical Corporation and Elif Esra Ozyurt, UhD student, an intern at a financial office, are getting married on the 8th of May, 2016 in Houston, TX. They decided to have a charitable wedding and added Houston Rotary E-Club to their registry page (www.elif-cagatay.com/registry). They both believe that "true hearts can make big changes in the world" and they also say "we all live under the same sun". They will ask their guests to make donations to three different non profit organizations (1: Houston Rotary E-Club, 2: The TEMA Foundation: The Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Habitats. 3: EWTF: Education for Women in Turkey Fund. ). They really hope that all of the three non profit organizations will get donations from their good hearted guests. They are wishing a happy Valentine's Day to the Rotarians around the global. Thank you both for choosing Rotary for your celebration in marriage!
