SINDHI ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA
Convention 1987
Pittsburgh, PA
Third SANA Convention (July 3-5, 1987, Pittsburgh, PA)
The
third annual General Body meeting of SANA was held in Pittsburgh on
the weekend of July 4, 1987. The coordinator of the meeting was
Shankar Lakhvani. In addition to keynote presentation by Dr.
Aftab Kazi, Gope Chandar and his family made it a memorable
musical evening with delightful Sindhi songs and dances. An impressive
amount of $ 2,300 was pledged in donations at this meeting with the
highest amount ($ 500) pledged by Mr. Saleem Ursani. The meeting
congratulated the new Executive Council which was elected in December
1986 elections. The elected EC members were Khalid Hashmani
(President), Naranjan Dudani (Vice President), Javaid Laghari
(General Secretary), Nadeem Qamar (Information Secretary), and
Israr Ansari (Treasurer and Joint Secretary). The
1986
Financial report
presented at the meeting showed total revenue of $ 2,119.44
and Expenses of $ 1,364.42 with overall cumulative surplus
of $ 1,871.86.
The meeting reviewed the results of the 1987 Membership Survey. The survey showed that 80% of membership selected SANA’s newsletter SANGAT as the most valuable program and indicated that 20% of the SANA budget should be allocated to it. General Body meeting and inviting Sindhi artists and intellectuals to North America followed this. The SANA Membership Directory was voted as the third-most popular activity.56% members expressed satisfaction with the type of press statements that were issued by the EC; 24% wanted more press statements of similar type and 12% wanted fewer press statements. In response to a question, several names were suggested for inducting as EC and AC (Advisory Committee) members. Also 67% expressed full satisfaction with the by-laws and 14% felt that some changes were desired.