CHICAGO, IL (TIP): On May 13, 2017 Senior Citizen Parivar of Elgin Parivar celebrated Mother’s Day at the auditorium of Church located at 1500 old Church road in Elgin, Illinois. Chairman Dhirajbhai Suvagia and emcee Mr. Jayendra Desai extended their warm welcome to all the committee members, dignitaries and special invited guests that included guest Chandrakant M. Modi MD Chairman of Asian Cremation USA and President of Asian Media USA, Kanubhai Hathi and newly elected Schaumburg Trustee Nimeshbhai Jani. The program started with Ganesh Stuti followed by Ganesh Poojan performed by Event Sponsor – Bharatbhai Suvagia and family. Shree Nalinkant Shukla (Guruji) led the prayers and Poojan. Bharatbhai Thakkar –

President of the organization thanked all the dignitaries, donors and members. The event was filled with special performances from Dr. Kabaria, Vaibhav Thakkar, and Bharatbhai & Pravinaben Acharya to entertain members.

Performances includes emotional and heart touching stories and songs that depicted unconditional love and dedication of Mothers. The event stressed on importance of Mothers in life of every individual. Bharatbhai Suvagia delivered incredible speech on parent’s roll in our life and how it is crucial in shaping us.

Bharatbhai Suvagia’s family also distributed to all mothers in audience. Dr. Chandrakant Modi presented the audience the highlights of Not for Profit “Asian cremation USA (ACU)” organization as birth of this organization was necessitated by increasing population on India community. They provide brief history on how the organization came into existence that included the difficulties faced by Indian Communities during time of sorrow.

Dr. Chandrakant Modi worked tirelessly in organizing a system that would be readily available to Indian Community. in case funeral are required. They provided background on how they had to unite the community, compile information and contacts of Funeral homes and Indian Priest that would be available at very competitive affordable prices. The sole goal was to help community financially. They distributed booklets to Parivar members that outlined detail information services.

Their sole purpose of the Organization is to help community to educate, manage, and organize funeral services of their loved ones. It is seen that most people do not have enough information on organization funerals and at times they are forced to spend huge amounts that may not be affordable.

The Asian Cremation USA, a not for profit organization was founded to meet this urgent need. Dedicated volunteers help cut down the cost of the Final Farewell for one’s near and dear ones. The organization has negotiated an Indian Cremation Package with about 14 selected funeral homes which have their own attached crematorium, located in metropolitan Chicago and the suburbs.

(Details of these funeral homes along-with all-inclusive prices for the funerals are listed on www.AsianCremationUSA.org and in a booklet distributed free to members of the community.) Also included on the website and the booklet is other information like the contact details of priests, Pujaris, florists etc. It also lists a check- list of funeral arrangement, ingredients needed for the religious rites, requirements to obtain death certificate, a list of volunteers FAQs etc.

Since the Parivar is also keen to start similar activities, this presentation was organized to augment harness resources strength and support of Parivar organization in symbiotic way with Asian Cremation USA.

Senior Citizen Parivar Elgin is founded by Dhirajbhai Suvagia, known businessman and philanthropist, with a unique mission to encourage active lifestyle for Members. Since its inception, Senior Citizen Parivar of Elgin is highly recognized by local Governing bodies and Religious institutions and has been honored and praised as best managed Senior Group with Sole goal of service to the Members, by the members and for the Members!

Each Parivar member is active member during each event! Parivar Committee has unique responsibility to cater to the needs of any Members that has experience Medical situation or during time of sorrow. The organization forges lifelong connections with it Members.

Parivar regularly schedules monthly programs celebrating religious/nonreligious based on the Month. Parivar plans at least three international tours for Parivar can boast of having one of the best volunteering groups.

The following is the Executive Committee:

Dhirajbhai Suvagia (Chairperson),

Bharatbhai Thakkar (President),

Jayendra Desai (Secretary) and

Ashokbhai Potdar (Public Relation)

(Photographs and Press release by: Asian Media USA)