September&october

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The KL HUB

Issue # 16

SSA KL JUNE COFFEE MORNING IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a safe and happy summer and I hope everyone is energized back to

experience the SSA activities lined up for you. While you were taking a break from school, SSA Activity&Welcome team is working hard preparing for the 24th Sept International Coffee Morning. . This will be a medium for you to showcase your world cuisine, cultural display, performances, dance etc. So do bring along your country’s national flag, typical crafts and anything you consider represents your country’s cultural heritage. Let’s get together and celebrate the art and culture with our fellow SSA members from as many as 55 nationalities!! While the adults are taken care of, Our SSA playgroup team makes sure that the kids are not left behind, as there are ample of activities planned for the kids ,so do bring your kids along to enjoy some fun .This group offers friendship and support for all Moms and Moms-to-be. Infants, toddlers, and all

children under 12. Activities include Potlucks, Parks, MNO, (well deserved Mom's Night Out) Family Dinners, Weekend Picnics, Book Swap, and a Swap Shop for Gently used Children's Items. Everything is free and just for FUN! This is a place for Moms to getaway to make long lasting friendships for ourselves and our little ones. Bake Sale for Charity! Coming this October at the Schlumberger Bandar Uttama office at Damansara, We will have great bake sale for a great cause! We are raising money for the Sahabat refugees. (Sahabat Refugee center (SRC) provides services to refugees from minority communities living in Malaysia). Come on out and show your support!

JOIN OUR TEAM AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS WITH US! And finally our Annual General Meeting which will be held on November 23, if you are interested in being a part of a dedicated team you are welcome to join. This year we will do our best to provide a wide range of activities that will be interesting for everyone

and we are hoping to reach new heights. We will continue our quest to connect people from around the world, to provide networking platform for all ladies, to organize cross-cultural events and to do charity work. It’s going to be an interesting year! So do join us in this journey to experience this fun. After all, the SSA is all about “Sharing. Understanding. Cooperation. Peace. Friendship. Respect& Unity”. Thank you all for your time and support,

Best Regards

Anjana Subramanya

SSA KL Coordinator

Coordinator’s Message

by [Article Author]

Coordinator’s message

From The Welcome Desk

The Charity Hub &

HSE Update

Events Review

Upcoming events

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FROM THE WELCOME DESK

HELP US WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!

If you hear of any new arrivals to KL, please let us know so we can start the membership process and ensure the officially welcomed and added to the email list, directory and Facebook page.

Please contact Melanie at [email protected].

Thank you!!

HELP US UPDATE OUR FILES!

Are you leaving or have you left KL? Any changes to your address or contact information? Please let us know so we can update our KL chapter directory and email list!

Please contact Marie at [email protected] Thank you!

Farewells

Assel Bibol Amanda Megat Cristina Teran

Cristiane Morais Diana Reyes Chisum

Isabelle Lafontan Lyudmila Gulyamova

Luna Chisum de Jalbert Mahsa Jalali Maslina Mahi Mouna Grati Muge Saygi

Nancy Audemard Nursia Miraza

Nupur Ray Chaudhuri Olga Puzina

Pavel Smirnov Sistian Soesanto – Sisca

S.Ahsan Sudakshina

Chakraverty Tania Melham

Zoe Ferrie

FACT SHEET

If you have any useful information that you

would like to contribute to Kl Fact sheet for

our new arrivals, please send it to Khizra at [email protected]

WELLCOMES

Ana Cristina Rincon Angela Arevalo Armanda Rodie Azadeha Koohani Brandi Joy Camila Herrera Cecilia Sessarego Chiquitita Tamba Eman Hassan Fei Chang Flavia Castelli Frederique Adri Gloria Uribe Ines Kharrat Inga Venslovaite Jenny Xiao Karen Massam Katrina Ross Kirsty Gilmore Kristina Belcher Ky Anh Mai Laura Filon Li Bing Roberts Liliana Rendon Lily Liu Madina Hajiyeva Maha Shakhshire-Bustami May Kuan Ooi Monica Podaru Paola Salazar Priyala Verma Rajni Guleria Ruth Anita Caroline Sabine Spears Sabrina Boukercha Shilpa Varma Smita Sinha Stephanie McVie Trang Smith Vijaya Amaravadi Zhuo Wang

Congratulations to:

Una Kah and Peter Otang

welcomed baby daughter

Allison Otang on the 16th

March

2013.

Congratulations to:

Maira Asif & Sheikh

Muhammad welcomed their

baby boy Bilal born on the 6th

June 2013

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A big thanks to our SSA! We collected

RM 220 at our June Coffee morning for the Sahabat Support Centre. The center doctor said that some of the refugee children were malnourished, so the Charity Team wanted to help. All of the monies collected are going to food support for the day care/Kindergarten at the center.

The Charity Team took carloads of your donations of school supplies, toiletries, food and clothing over to the center. Our donations are very welcomed and appreciated. Let’s keep it up, SSA!

Our International Coffee will be a big event for our charity team, too. We will have a raffle and used book sale to benefit the refugees. Please consider donating a raffle prize or buying tickets.

Karine, Anu, Noor, Sneha and Laura

How Can I help?

We are collecting the following items at our coffee mornings. Just leave with a member of the Charity Team, and they will take care of the rest!

Donate a raffle prize—donated prizes ensure our entire raffle monies go to the needy. If you find an interesting gift from your country or your travels, it would make a great prize for someone while helping to raise money for an SSA supported charity.

Donate used books—the SSA Book Shoppe needs more books, for children and adults!

Collect travel-sized toiletries from hotels and airlines—these will be collected and put into gift bags for the needy.

If you would like to help out the Sahabat Support Centre, get

more information at

www.msri.org.my

HSE UPDATE

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For more information or to apply, please contact SSA KL coordinator Anjana [email protected].

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Our June Coffee Morning was Held

at Star Hill Tea Saloon on 18th June

2013.

Inspired by the fascinating history

and culture of tea, the Starhill Tea Salon is one of the first tea salons in

Kuala Lumpur. Every single detail of

this restaurant is bringing us to the sense of elegance and cozy feeling.

The lust of this wonderful venue

makes us decided that this is a perfect

place to hold our June Coffee Morning.

As member arrived and greeted

warmly by the hospitality team, we are served with delicious selections of

finger foods and best selections of tea

and coffee.

Everyone seems to enjoy spending

some warm quality time catching up with other members.

The Hospitality team would like to thank everyone attending for giving

our new members Fei Chang, Sophia

Omosa and Rizki Harahap such a warm and lovely welcome to our KL

Chapter.

We also congratulate Zhansulu

Abisheva for the new born baby boy

and saying goodbye to our member who moved overseas Tania Melhem

Ghamroun.

As our coffee morning come to a

close we announce door prize winner and 3 lucky members of these lovely

prize are Germaine Ferrao – Lenn,

Karen Wiemer and Mitra Gholami.

With the generosity of Starhill Tea

Saloon management they also provided all of the attendees with RM

50 voucher to spend at one of 3

restaurants at Starhill Gallery.

Special Thanks to Our Hospitality team Melanie Thompson, Amel

Aouci, Mihaela Salvensen, Mita

Hussain, Khizra Bilal and Dina Chalik to work so hard and make this

event a success and to Starhill Tea

Saloon Manager Ms Sally Cheoh who is very helpful and make our June

coffee morning a wonderful and

memorable moment for us KL

member chapter.

SSA KL Welcome team.

June coffee morning

EVENTS REVIEW

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July 2013 Hospitality

Coffee Morning

EVENTS REVIEW

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ROYAL SELANGOR

PEWTER

WORKSHOP

EVENTS REVIEW

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EVENTS CALENDAR

Tour to Chinese temple

17th September

International coffee morning

24th September

Zumba class

8th October

Self-defence Class

17th of October

October Coffee Morning

24th October

October Hospitality Coffee Morning

More information on this event will be sent out

via email closer to the time.

Date: 17th October, 2013

More information on this event will be sent out via email closer to the time.

On the International Day you can get involved just by being little creative. It will be a community wide celebration of world cuisine, cultural display, performances, dancing and intercultural sharing. You are encouraged to bring along your country’s national flag, typical crafts and anything you consider represents your country’s cultural heritage. Let’s get together and share with our fellow SSA members from as many as 55 nationalities!!

Date: September 24th. Time: from 10:00 Location to be confirmed How to participate?? It is very easy: form a group (from same country or region), decide if you are bringing your favorite dish or a typical food from the area that you are representing. Your country or region will have a table for you to display handcrafts, painting, pictures, decorations, etc. Get dress with your typical costume or choose a colour that better represent your nation, a cultural display, performance or dance, amount others.

This is a morning to be proud of the SSA-KL diversity and to show the best of your culture. Please join us in this adventure, let’s celebrate together and have an intercultural sharing. We will have prizes for best costume, best dish and proudest table!!! Amount others….

UPCOMING EVENTS