Chicago Memon Association
(Formerly Memon Association of America)
Serving The Memon Community since 1982
Incorporated under the laws of State of Illinois, USA
(A Non-profit Organization)
Chicago, IL USA
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Chicago Memon Association
(Formerly Memon Association of America)
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Board of Directors President: Farooq Sardharia Vice-President: Wahid K Jangda General Secretary: Ghulam Panawala Tresurer: Feroz Aboobaker Joint-Treasurer: Imran Aziz Board of Advisors: Ahmed K Jangda
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Chicago, May 6, 2010
The following is
the excerpt of the Minutes of the Board Meeting held on May 5th, 2010.
The meeting started at 9:00 pm at Anmol BBQ
Restaurant (operated by Ashraf Patel) on Devon Ave. Chicago, IL with
a Tilawat-e-Qur'an.
Ghaffar Variend Bha welcomed the visiting guests
: Haji Hanif Tayaab, Qasim Lawai, and Rashid Balagam - all are currently
visiting from Karachi, Pakistan
Ahmed Karim Jangda Bha stated the purpose of the
meeting and completed the confirmation process for the renewal of the
Presidential term, the current
President Farooq Sardharia was reconfirmed as
President with full support from all guests present at the meeting.
President Farooq Sardharia Bha welcomed all the
visiting Honorable guests and thanked everyone for their confidence and
accepted the responsibility as President for the year 2010.
President Farooq Sardharia announced the names
of the new cabinet members as follows:
During the Q & A Brother Imran Aziz of Aisha
Carpet and Brother Mohammed Iqbal of MI Travel offered office space for Jamaat
free of charge in order to establish a permanent office. The President
responded that in the coming days the Board will decide which place will be
suitable for the establishment of the office and thanked both brothers for
their offer. All other questions were of common nature, however, there were
lot of suggestions, one of which was to start a membership drive for 2010
and continue there after every year. Ghaffar Variend Bha was assigned to
design the membership form which is to be distributed at all Memon VC dinner
programs.
The meeting was adjourned with a closing Dua'a at
10:30 pm.
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Chicago, February 19, 2009
Name Change update
I gives me great pleasure to announce that we have successfully changed our association's name from Memon Association of America to Chicago Memon Association. The change has been made in all the Government records and offices and we continue to be a Non Profit organization. The association is very thankful to Brother Feroz Aboobaker and Ghaffar Variend for their extra effort in securing the new name. As you must have noticed that our website has been updated and now it reflects our new name. We will be working on a design for our new logo in the near future. If you have any suggestions about the new logo, please forward it to our webmaster at: webmaster@chicagomemons.com Thanks.
Allah Hafiz, Farooq Sardharia President
Chicago, December 26, 2008 Report on Eid Milan Program
Our Eid Milan program was held at Islamic
Foundation Banquet Hall in Villa Park,
Illinois on December 25th 2008. The program started with Tilawat-e-Qur'an by
Brother Ashraf Patel, the moderators for the evening were Ahmed Karim Jangda
and Ghaffar Variend, they discussed the evening program's Agenda. Mr.
Farooq Sardharia, President of the Association, spoke on this occasion and
called for Memon Unity in the greater Chicago area and emphasized on
supporting the Jamaat and helping each other. A welcome message was extended
to all new Hajjes'. Mr. Sardharia also spoke about a new website, www.chicagomemons.com
which is being launched. Brother Ghaffar Variend will be the Webmaster for
the new website.
At this occasion general body was invited to
vote for the name change of the Association, as Directors wanted to add
Chicago in the name to make the Association identifiable to readers, the new
name "Chicago Memon Association" was
put forward to the general members present at the program for their vote.
Brother Farooq Sardharia put forward the motion to the general members for
their vote and asked if any one had any objection or concern or any question
about this change, by the grace of Allah no one had any objections,
therefore the resolution was passed by 100%, on behalf of the Association
brother Ghaffar Variend adopted the motion as approved by general members
present at the Eid-Milan program into the minutes as witnessed by Anis
Ghaniwala, director and Jawed Khandwala, member.
The
moderators announced that during the November 17th meeting at a Restaurant
on Devon Avenue, it was decided that Farooq Sardharia to continue to
be President for one more year and all directors are behind him. The new
directors will be announced later on. Please note that the new term of the
board will start January 1st, 2009 for one year.
The moderators thanked the advertisers' and
financial supporters: Lal Qila Restaurant and Banquet, MI Travel Inc,
Advance Staffing, Chicago Motors Inc, Usmania Fine Dinning, Sabri Nihari
Restaurant, First Chicago Tax Service, Zaiqa Restaurant, Star Auto, Africa
Auto, Ali Bagasrawala, Kadar Sodagar and Travel Mart International, also
moderators were thankful for over 25 wonderful gifts for Children by Jawed
Khandwala and Imran Aziz of Global Cities as well as Amin Wali for religious Quiz Competition,
the moderators were also thankful to Travel Mart for Raffle draw of one
round ticket from Chicago to Las Vegas.
Memon Medical Institutes (MMI)
representative in the United States of America, Dr. Naseem Shekhani also
spoke on the occasion about Memon Medical Institute being built in the city
of Karachi, near Karachi University in Gulistan-e-Johar. This will be a 330
bed hospital and will be a state of the art facility. This facility will
include all major specialties and have strong presence of a primary care
network. The cost of the project when completed will be about $20 Million
dollars. Mr. Pir Mohammed Diwan, President and CEO, Aijaz Saya of MMI along
with their team have been working hard to make this Medical Institute project a
great success. Dr. Shekhani thanks the Association's organizers in general
and particularly Mr. Farooq Sardharia, Mr. Imran Aziz, Mr. Waheed K Jangda,
Mr. Ahmad K. Jangda, Mr. Feroz Aboobaker, Mr. Anis Ghaniwala, Mr. M. Iqbal
of MI Travel, Mr. Zubair Zara, Mr. Rahim Hamidani, Mr. Ashraf Patel, Mr.
Ashfaq Zakaria, and Mr. Ghaffar Variend of Memon Point in particular for
their generous help and an opportunity to present the biggest Memon
Medical Project so far around the world.
Food was excellent and plenty and served in
an organized fashion, food catered by Ashraf Patel's Restaurant.
More than 250 Memons plus children participated in this event from all walks of life and the atmosphere was of festivity for Eid and best part of the program was Religious Quiz for the children which was moderated by Mohsin Shah of Elegant Events and Party Planners and Br Ashraf Patel, prizes were given to winners. Brother Zakir was the winner of round airfare ticket. “The event was a great success”
In conclusion, Mr. Ahmed K Jangda
and Ghaffar Variend thanked everyone for their participation and making the
evening successful.
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