Bhutanese in Salt Lake City, Utah celebrated Teej 2011 amidst special program at a local library community hall yesterday the September 3rd 2011, in south Salt Lake area.
Bhima Sapkota and Chudamuni Dulal of Women and Cultural Committee , Bhutanese Community in Utah(BCU) who jointly coordinated to organize the program to mark Teej 2011 informed BNS that the main purpose of organizing this program was to mark Teej, the biggest festival for Hindu women and to inform the local people and young generation about the importance of the festival.
The program that started at around 2:30pm local time yesterday fascinated more than 300 hundred Bhutanese and more than 50 locals. The president, Board of Director, Bhutanese Community in Utah (BCU), Hem Dulal, distributed badges to the invited guests, welcomed the gathering and briefed about the importance and background of Teej .
The Mayor of Salt Lake County Peter Corron,The Refugee Office Director, Gerald Brown,representatives from Department of Workforce Services, resettlement agencies, Hiring managers and family mentors were among the guests presented in the program. The BCU also honored the hiring managers presented in the program.
The founder president, Ghana Dulal briefed about the background of Bhutanese refugees and the plight they crossed through in the past. “We are very hard working and productive no matter what ever long time we spent in refugee camps in Nepal unproductively”, Dulal said targeting the employers presented in the function. He stressed on the evidences of the hard work as he said, “the proof of hard work is that so far 22 families bought houses in Salt Lake City”.
The cultural competition organised to entertain the guest was appreciated by all the gusts. The guests seemed enthusiastic to join the sangini sangini, a typical Nepali women dance, shown by the Bhutanese women.
The prizes to the participants of the competition were distributed by Hem Dulal ,the President of BCU. Dulal thanked the participants, organizers and the guests and to end the progrem the MC, Kubir Acharya, member the Board of Director, announced open sanginee group dance where most of the women attired in cultural dress participated.
Reported by Khem Kafle for BNS from Salt Lake City.
