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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 20, 2009
United Tamils (UTCC) host Jewish and Muslim leaders for Diwali
United Tamil Council of Canada (UTCC) organized an event to host leaders from Jewish and Muslims community at the Durka temple in Scarborough to celebrate Diwali. The event was organized to bring together leaders from Jewish and Muslim community to showcase a Tamil Hindu temple, create awareness of Diwali and interact with the Tamil community leaders in Canada.
“We were delighted to have the visitors from other faith to come to our temple to learn about our culture” said Thiagarajahkurukkal Kanaswami, chief priest of the Sri Durka Hindu temple, who helped the visitors with a tour of the temple. The visitors included representatives from the Canadian Jewish Congress, Canadian council of Imams, professionals and youth leaders, along with representatives of United Tamil Council of Canada.
“We not only wanted to use this opportunity to educate them on Diwali, but also make this first of many events to bring together leaders from Jewish and Muslim community to talk about Canadian issues” said Vijay Sappani, event organizer and Spokesperson for UTCC.
UTCC had many leaders from diverse communities in their event in June, where they raised money to support Tamil children in Sri Lanka. “UTCC will continue to create opportunities to empower Canadian Tamils and serve as a bridge to connect them with other communities” said Kula Sellathurai President of UTCC.
UTCC has several other events planned including a private dinner with representatives of government of India, a health awareness event in partnership with Heart & Stroke Foundation, joint events with Indo- Canadian and Jewish community groups to name a few. “UTCC will continue to do events that address the real issues of Canadian Tamils and we are open to listen to advice from our membership to future events and programs” said Sugumar Ganesan, VP Government Relations of UTCC.
UTCC is a non profit, non partisan organization that strives to unite and be inclusive of Canadian Tamils of all background and represent them in the broader community and to work towards the socio, economic and political empowerment of Canadian Tamils and represent their aspirations from a Canadian perspective on domestic and global issues. Its board consists of diverse Canadian Tamils from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Burma striving to represent all Tamils in Canada.
Should you require further details on UTCC, please feel free to contact Mr. Vijay Sappani, V.P. Media and Public Relations at 416-716-1522 or vijay@unitedtamils.org
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Very good job Vijay, you are doing the right thing for our community. enough of lifting ltte flags and lets focus on helping our community in canada. please email me on how I can join utcc.
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our next event is coming on Nov 14th you can attend it and meet other UTCC members too.
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