CONCERT RAISES $25,000 FOR DEAF INDIA 
Project Deaf India held its first fund raising program at the famous Robert B Moore Auditorium of Orange Coast College and raised over $25,000.

Dr Raj Desai, founder of Project Deaf India, 
lit the ceremonial lamp to inaugarate the event. 
With him is his daughter, Nalini..
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The show started with a "A Dance Journey Through Cultural India
by the Mysore Nagaraj Group after a delicious buffet feast of  Indian food.
 

Kathak Dancers at the fundraiser

The dance program
included a Ganesh
Stuti in the yakshagan style.

The charity, which was established in 1998 by retired 
cancer specialist Dr Rajendra Desai with the help of the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa and the Rotary Club of Mysore India, attracted a crowd of 700 for the three hour program. About 120 deaf persons enjoyed the program as well.
   And a glimpse of the deaf world to the hearing audience was portrayed by CJ Jones, 
a successful black, deaf entertainer in his early forties when 
he presented a half hour comedy act. 

Funds from the Rotary Clubs and the Rotary International Foundation have 
provided a mobile detecting unit for early diagnosis of deafness, hearing aids for deaf children and the training of teaching Sign Language, Lip Reading and Speech.

The Dance Journey Through Cultural India was hosted by Victoria Avery, Past President of the Rotary Club of Mission Viejo, which also is a sponsor of Project Deaf India. 

Shown is Jim de Boom, Past Disrict Governor District 5320
and a member and Past president of the Rotary Club of 
Newport Balboa, California who was also part of the 
program

 Click here for a list of our sponsors

This program  sponsors all India deaf children which will educate and 
rehabilitate them. With your continued support  we can help the poor
deaf children of India become self supporting and respectable citizens.