PRESIDENTS REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1ST JANUARY 2008 TO DECEMBER 2008.

Wish you all a very Happy Jamshedji Nauruz Mubarak.

At the outset, let me take this opportunity to thank all the Committee Members for their continued support and dedicated work.

We now have 11 members on the committee, as per the resolution passed at the last AGM and happy to report that we had full attendance at almost all meetings, and active participation from them. Committee meetings were held regularly and almost every month various activities were arranged.

Minaz Kanga besides being the secretary continues with the weekly prayer classes for the children. Dilnawaz Zaveri was appointed as treasurer and did a very good job. Ervad Percy Khambatta and his two sons Zephyr and Zeus are regularly called for public prayers by IRO.
We take this opportunity to thank them for sparing their time.

We continued holding the yearly party for 25 abused and orphan children at McDonald. Twelve members and their children also attended the same.

We also participated in the Singapore Heritage Fair, under the leadership of Daisy Irani Subaiah and our young 12 beautiful ladies wore gara and other saree's and stole the show. Let us show our appreciation to Daisy and all the participants.

We submitted a bid for 2013 World Zoroastrian Congress in partnership with Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, and were considered to be the best bid.  But without any justification the new trustees of the Bombay Parsi Panchayat decided to hold the congress in India.  It was a big disappointment for our young enthusiastic committee members.

We continue as an active member of inter religious organisation, being one of the 10 religions registered in Singapore.  IRO just celebrated its 60th anniversary.
IRO was invited to China to have dialogue with the 5 religions in china and it is now agreed that IRO and China will hold a religious artefact's exhibition in Singapore at Suntec from 16th to 23rd December 2009.
We will participate in this exhibition and hope that the whole community will  come together as one team and help. 

We have also volunteered to help the Singapore environment.
We are going to plant twenty trees at two plots allotted to us near the Kallang  River at Tanjong Rhu by parks and recreation dept. We have to pay $100/-per tree and then the parks and recreation department will look after the trees. At the moment we are only allotting one tree per family and all twenty are booked by our members.

I am happy to report that with the grace of God Ahura Mazda our small but vibrant community continues to live happily in Singapore and sincerely hope that we will also be able to successfully tide over the current recession.

Before I end, I would like to invite all committee members. Daisy Subaiah, Percy Khambatta and two sons Zephyr and Zeus to come forward and let us give them a round of applause for their dedicated service to our community.

Once again, A Very Happy Jamshedji Mubarak.

Thank you

Russi M. Ghadiali
President.