MMA Women’s Day 2015 news for PRESS:
MMA celebrated Internation Womens day on the 7TH March 2015 at St. Joseph’s Church Longsight. The celebrations commenced at 11 am with an inaugural ceremony of lamp lighting by MMA president Mr.Polsan Thottappilly, Chief guest Dr.Jose Abraham N.D ,Vice precident Mrs Bency Saju, Joint Secretary Nisha Pramod, former First women president Mrs. Megala Shaji, Executive members Bindu Kurian, Reena Wilson and Nisha Sharat Nair. A welcome speech by Mr.Polsan Thottappilly highlighted on the history of women achievers with special focus on Marie Currie and Indira Gandhi. A minute of silence was also observed to pay respect to our late Kerala assembly speaker Mr.Karthekeyan who passed away in Bangalore after losing his fight to Liver cancer. Following that was a welcome Speech by Our vice president Mrs.Bency Saju, whereby she welcomed every one for the celebration of women’s day and expressed her good wishes to all the women present. The celebration started off with a session on Stress management by Dr.Jose whereby he enlightened the group on history of stress, various stress triggers, signs and symptoms of stress, complications of stress and management techniques. His session was thought provoking and relevant to the busy schedule of all women in MMA. The next session was by Dr.Agimol Pradeep who is an active campaigner with a wealth of experience in the field of health campaigning. Agimol who also a member of MMA could relate herself to one among the women of MMA. She also spoke on the step by step approach to conducting any health campaign and the need to contact the relevant organisations to avail the resources to support the campaign. A memento was also presented behalf of MMA to both the guest speakers by the vice president and the joint secretary as a token of gratitude. After the two awareness session, attendees were treated to a three course meal of mouth-watering Indian delicacy prepared by Jumon Vadakumchery. After the morning session the after session began with a group session chaired by Bency Saju and Nisha Pramod on fundraising activities of MMA. The last phase of the day concluded with raffle and fun games which were very entertaining with some great performances from the ladies. A vote of thanks was given by the days anchor and MMA’s joint secretory Mrs.Nisha Pramod who thanked everyone for the great turnout and also thanked all the organisers for making the event a great success. Some lucky ladies went away with their winning prizes from the raffle but everyone went away with a great day of celebration of womanhood and an inspiration to being more socially active in a platform provided by MMA.
-Nisha Pramod