Acknowledgement To Nachle Dance School and Meenaxi Dance Academy for their enthusiastic support for

this event.

To our sponsors: Coles Norwest, Coles Castle Hill, Coles Kings Langley, Baulkham Hills Landscape Supplies, Kellyville Pets, Dan Murphy, Prospectors Earth Sciences, Nestle, Unilever, Chemistworks, and others who we may have missed.

PDG Bruce Allan, Manager The Australian Rotary Foundation for his guidance and support

To the members of The Rotary Clubs of The Hills-Kellyville and Rouse Hill for their

support & cooperation.

To Cherrybrook Community and Cultural Facility for helping us to make this a memorable night.

To our MC, Duke Ramachandran. For his valuable guidance and support.

To Yaarl Event Management and Function Centre, our Caterers.

To the Staff of Coles Norwest for their contribution for the event

To all those who made the delicious desserts for the event, Mrs Sundari Sivam Raja, Mrs Kasthuri Narayan, Mrs Maheswary Subash, Mrs Ananthi Sritharan, Mrs Ahsha Soosaipillaii, Mrs Mahalingham and all the others who helped in every way possible.

To all those supported with stage arrangements , sound and light

To our young and young in heart and soul helpers who transformed this evening to

make it an enjoyable event for all.

To all our guests with whose patronage, the Night was translated from a dream to a reality.

To Edna Rohan, Anne Casey and Ahsha Ramachandran for all their help in organizing

this event.

Last but never forgotten, to all those who encouraged us and gave us their total support to make this an evening that we were working to make it an enjoyable evening to all of you who are here.

We sincerely hope that you have enjoyed this event and hope to see you again in another one of our fund raising activity in the new year.

Your participation tonight will leave lasting legacy for many more years

to come benefiting hundreds of farmers and the villagers who call

Zinkapalem their home.

Rotary Clubs of

The Hills-Kellyville & Rouse Hill

Presents

t a k i n g you to Bo l l ywood

Saturday 10th November 2012 Cherrybrook Community and Cultural

Facility Shepherds Drive, Cherrybrook

In support of The Rotary Foundation &

The Zinakapalem Water Project

What is Rotary

Community service

“Being a Rotarian means serving your community, networking, making friends, and building international relationships.”

— Mercy Bannerman, Rotary Club of Accra-Airport, Ghana

Networking “Rotary is a tremendous network. Leaders in the community can connect and reach out to people in need.”

— Russel Honoré, Rotary Club of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Leadership skills “A week doesn't go by that I don't learn something new from the speaker at our club or just from working on projects with people. It's an opportunity to grow indefinitely.”

— Stephen Brown, Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle, California, USA

International service

“If you truly want to give back to the community – and to the world at large – you join Rotary. It has an arm that reaches across all barriers. To be part of that is very powerful.”

— Aruna Koushik, Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada

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— Kemal Attilâ, Rotary Club of Ankara-Tandogan, Turkey

Family-friendly

“For me, Rotary is a way of life – one that my husband and I have lived our whole lives.”

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“There's so much diversity in the work Rotary does. It can give you exposure to so many different areas and help you find what your interests really are.”

— Andrea Tirone, Rotaract Club of University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

D inner Menu Appetizers

Mutton Spring Rolls

Vegetarian Samosa

Chicken Patties

Main Course

Rice / Fried Rice / Noodles

Rotti

Hot & Spicy Chicken Curry

Devilled Prawn

Potato & Tomato Curry

Dhal Curry

Egg Plant Salad

Desserts (A selection to choose)

Wattalappam

Marshmallow Pudding Carrot Allwa

Gullopjam

Ice Cream

Agar Agar Jelly Payasam

Namaskaram

“I honor the place within you where

the entire Universe resides;

I honor the place within you of love,

of light, of truth, of peace;

I honor the place within you, where,

when you are in that place in you,

and I am in that place in me, there is

only one of us.”

The most expensive silk saree

The most expensive silk saree was sold

for Rs. 3,931,627 ($100,021; £50,679) on

5 January 2008. It was made by Chennai Silks, India and features reproductions of

11 paintings by the celebrated Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma.

In a ploy that screams excess is best, The Chennai Silks has created the world’s most expensive sari- costing a whopping

$100,00! The traditional silk frock is decked with gold, diamonds, rubies and other precious gem stones, which are woven intricately throughout the

garment. Rather than the traditional fabric pattern, the sari depicts of India’s

master paintings by Raja Ravi Varma, called “Galaxy of Musicians.”

The over the top sari is studded with gold, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, platinum, silver, yellow sapphire, blue sapphire, cat’s eye, topaz, pearl and

coral. Thirty Chennai weavers took over seven months to create this one piece. Aside from its astronomical cost, the sari is also the world’s first to

require 7,440 jacquard hooks to complete.

The intricate design shows a group of female musicians, with real precious

stones on each figure as in the original painting. Ten more of Varma’s paintings are portrayed in the border around the sari as well. It took a total of

4760 man-hours to produce.

List of ingredients: 1. Gold 59 gms 700 milli grams 2. Diamond 3 carats 913 cents 3. Platinum 120 milli grams 4. Silver – 5grams 5. Ruby 2 carat 985 cent 6. Emerald 55 cent 7. Yellow sapphire – 3 cent 8. Sapphire – 5 carat 9. Cat eye-14 cent 10. Topaz -10 cent 11. Pearl-2 gms 12. Coral-400 milligrams

Aside from draining the wearer’s bank account, the jewel encrusted garment takes a toll on the body- weighing in at almost 18 pounds! Each of the baubles

were hand woven into the sari, adding even more layers and weight to remain sturdy.

DETAILED PLAN TO ASSURE WATER SUPPLY FOR CULTIVATING THE

LANDS IN ZINKAPALEM 1. BACKGROUND

Zinkapalem, located in Nagayalanka mandal of Krishna District, is dependent

on Edurumandi Reservoir Water for the cultivation of their 250 acres of land.

Edurumandi Island consists of 9 villages surrounded three sides by Krishna River and one side by Bay of Bengal. Since the ground water is saline, the

entire Island depends on the water pumped from the main land. In order to provide water both for drinking and irrigation purposes, the huge Reservoir is

established in Edurumondi village, where the water is lifted from the Irrigation Canal in Guntur District and stored. Water thus stored is supplied to all the

villages on the island through the open channels for irrigation purposes. But

there is no sufficient water in that reservoir so the villages at the edge always used to depend only on monsoon rains. But with the failure of monsoon rains

in the past one decade, they are stopping the agricultural works and as a result the lands are kept idle.

Having brought the vacant lands of 250 acres under cultivation in Zinkapalem

with the support of Rotary Districts of Australia, ASSIST field staff consulted the

community holders and enquired the possible solution to conquer from this

drastic situation.

2. PROPOSED PLAN

Initial idea was to dig a tank of around 25 to 30 acres, which could store the

water in the monsoon season and the stored water could be used for

cultivating 250 acres of land belonging to the people of Zinkapalem to enhance their economic status. But, since the cost of land has gone up

everywhere, the villagers expressed their difficulty to purchase the land of about 25 acres at the cost of 2,500,000- INR at the market rate of 100,000

per acre.

Hence, the alternative solution derived by the villagers is to establish smaller

farm ponds at the rate of 10 cents per one acre (10% of their land) to store the water released from the Reservoir in the monsoon season. In addition to

the water released from the Reservoir, the water can also be pumped from the adjacent Krishna River in the monsoon season as the River will have sweet

water during this season. Though the River water becomes saline in the rest

of the days due to the back water coming from the Sea, the water will be

sweet in the Rainy season for a period of 3 to 5 months. Hence, the proposed

plan is as follows:

Small water collection and storage tanks can be arranged in the total

extent of 250 acres. In order to cover all the 250 acres, 90 small tanks of different sizes are proposed by the villagers, which could be

developed in their respective fields. In this case, no additional land is

required or to be purchased. 90 small tanks will be of different sizes: 75 of 20 cents extent (800 sq.

mts.), 10 of 50 cents extent (2,000 sq. mts.) and 5 of 1 acre extent

(4,000 sq. mts.). All the tanks will be developed to a depth of 1 metre. If we go more

deep, there is a danger of getting the salt water. Hence, 1 metre is an

ideal. All these tanks could be filled with the help of motors and pump sets

from the canal during the rainy season. In addition, rain water could

also be collected in these tanks, too.

Water thus stored in these tanks is sufficient to cultivate the total lands of 250

acres belonging to the villagers of Zinkapalem. Taking into account the quantum of water gets evaporated, these ponds can withheld the water 9

months in the year except the peak summer months of March, April and May.

This is one of the ancient traditions followed by the farming community earlier and also being experimented now successfully in the neighbouring villages as

well as can be seen in the following photos:

Diesel Motors and Pump sets

The second requirement for the villagers is diesel engines to pump the water

from the Krishna River and from the field channels. In the failure of monsoon rains, they can easily pump the water

from the field channels through this motor to fill the farm ponds in order to

have sufficient water.

The following are the existing field

channels from Edurumondi Reservoir to Zinkapalem Village to provide the

water for irrigating the fields. When the flow of water is insufficient for

cultivation, the water is pumped from

these channels to the proposed farm ponds.

It seems that the better solution is digging up of ponds in Zinkapalem for

sustainable farming. With these ponds there will be no loss from the floods

also because the water goes into the nearby Sea and there is no scope of

pond water becoming saline. Similar process is being followed by one of the

neighbouring village - Gollamandand they are doing farming comfortably as

can be seen from the lands under cultivation:

The Children of Zinkapalem will not know any one of us, but our presence

here today will make a real change to their lives for many more years to

come.

On behalf of The Rotary Foundation, The Rotary club of The Hills-

Kellyville, Rotary Club of Rouse Hill, and the organizing committee

we say a big THANK YOU to all for helping us achieve this goal.

This is “PEACE THROUGH SE RVICE” as our Rotary International President Sakuji Tanaka would have said.

Happy D iwaa l i

E n j o y t w o I n d i a n b l o c k b u s t e r m o v i e s a t

y o u r l o c a l E v e n t C i n e m a s a n d H o y t s f r o m 1 3 t h

N o v e m b e r .

Children of Zinkapalem – Picture taken in

2007. Courtesy of St. Ives Rotary

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Performers Meenaxi Dance Academy

ROUTINE 1 - Bollywood Semi-Classical fusion of Breathless and Taal This is a semi-classical dance, focussing on delivering a fusion of traditional Indian semi-classical and Bollywood dance form. The first song in the medley - "Breathless", is a steady stream of a song that goes without a break or even a pause for breath. The dance rendered on this song is a pure Indian semi-classical dance form expressing love and describing the lover. The second song in the medley - Taal (which means Rythm) is a blend of Indian and Western music and is composed by A R Rehman, who is a popular music director. The dance on this song has a blend of Indian semi-classical and Bollywood style dance. Performers: Ashee , Meghna, Riddhi , Shalini and Meenaxi ROUTINE 2 - Medley of Bollywood songs - Its Rocking and Mauja Mauja Bollywood dancing has kept pace with times and has adopted other dance forms. This is a typical modern style Bollywood dance with a blend of various dance styles including western style. Performers: Ahrya, Riddhi and Shalini ROUTINE 3 - Medley of 3 Bollywood songs This Bollywood dance medley starts slowly with the first song, picks up pace in the second and ends with a bang in the third. Performers: Diluckshah , Silvana and Meenaxi ROUTINE 4 - Bollywood Semi-Classical - Aaja Nachle Aaja Nachle which means "Come and dance" is based on Indian folk song and dance with an influence of Kathak which is a classical dance from the North of India. This song is about a girl who loves to dance and likes everyone to dance to her tunes. Performers: Ahrya, Ashee , Meghna, Shivaany and Theepiga

Nach le Dance Schoo l Mrs. Sherin Alex, Mrs. Sarah McPherson and Dr Vidiya Ramachandran ROUTINE 1 - Fusion of classical and folk dance A combination of semi- classical and Rajasthan folk dance styles. ROUTINE 2 - Bollywood Dhamaka A typical Bollywood dance routine, with a blend of western and traditional dances styles. ROUTINE 3 – South Indian Beats The next dance routine has been inspired by today’s fundraising event to build water

tanks in Zinkapalem, a small village in Andhra Pradesh.

Programme – Bollyhills 2012

Welcome Dance

Lighting of Traditional Oil Lamp

Singing of the Australian National Anthem

Welcome – DGE Graeme Davies

Bollywood Dancers- Nachle Dance School

Bollywood Dancers- Meenaxi’s Group

Introduction to Rotary & Community

Bollywood Dancers- Meenanxi’s Group

8.30pm: Dinner served

Bollywood Dance Workshop- Nachle Dance School

Bollywood Dancers- Meenaxi’s Group

9.30pm: Raffle Draw, Surprises & Auction

Presentation

Bollywood Dancers- Meenaxi’s Group

Vote of Thanks

10.00pm: Dance the night away