Chapter Initiatives
Youth engagement
Our youth initiative team has been actively planning and organizing events for kids and youth to keep them excited about such events, connect with each other and develop a strong bond which will last for their lifetime. This is a great platform for young parents to connect, share their thoughts and strengthen the overall support system as well.
- Actively Engage OSA Georgia Youth in community activities
- Provide community service
- Enhance youth cultural
- Give back to community
- Provide Leadership Opportunities to all kids
- Provide Community Service/ Leadership Credits to HS kids
Holiday Baking & Craft making (12/09/2023)
Our youth initiative team organized another exciting event “Baking Spirits Bright” for our little ones for some holiday fun while they enjoy learning a new skill. Through this activity we discovered a new class of 13 kids who are future culinary connoisseurs – rolling, kneading and powdering their bear claw cookie masterpieces with detail and building a snowy owl with fine craftsmanship. Maybe one day soon they will make a grand luncheon feast for us. The pictures tell the story of how much the kids
(and parents alike) enjoyed this fun event.
Ms Utkalini 2023 (Beauty Pageant for Youth by OSA GA) (10/28/2023)
Riya Mishra Anisha Buxi Shivangi Panda Ayushi Patnaik Ashwika Patnaik Ankita Panda Gargi Das Netu Singha Sanvi Panda Riya Mishra Shivangi Panda Anisha Buxi 
from the bottom of our heart. A Community which fight for you, Stand for you and SHINE with you is your True FAMILY 
.Diwali Diya making & outdoor sports activity
Our youth initiative team has been actively planning and organizing events for kids and youth to keep them excited about such events, connect with each other and develop a strong bond which will last for their lifetime. This is a great platform for
young parents to connect, share their thoughts and strengthen the overall support system as well. We had a great turnout for
our Youth Meet n Greet with around 20 kids and 30 parents! The pictures capture the spirit of our vibrant kids – happy running around in play and calmly focused on completing their Diya work of art. The Youth Initiative team was very happy to see the motivation by so many parents who showed
up to continue cultivating a community of lifelong bonds and friendships among these
young ones. We are just getting started!
Fall Indoor sports activity for youth
ODIA SIKHYALAYA
“Barnabodha Sikhyalaya”, where us and our kids would have an opportunity to learn “Ama Bhasha, ama Jagnnatha Sanskrutti, ama Aitihya ebang Parampara “.
Barnabodha Odia Sikhyalaya by OSA GA(01/26/2023)
Kalyan Jyoti
Give back to community through community service
At OSA Georgia as a part of our commitment to give back to community and inculcate values of community service amongst us and our younger generation, we continue to hold our Kalyan Jyoti series of events. We conduct multiple Kalyan Jyoti events during the year partnering with local non profits and other organizations to join hands with them by providing free labor and material (where applicable) towards helping people in need. The Kalyan Jyoti events get significant interest from our youth and adults and everyone enjoys serving the community with a smile. Our youth get credit for their volunteer effort and have expressed the sense of accomplishment they get by seeing their effort make a difference to people in need.
Kalyan Jyoti 2024-1: MedShare
We got an opportunity on Saturday March 2nd to volunteer as a group at MedShare, in helping them sort the medical supplies. We had 17 members attend the 3 hour service event and help sort over 2000 pounds of supplies that can help about 1700 people. On an average each of our participants made a difference to over 100 people in need at some part of the world. Such is the impact we made, such is the positive change we make to this world through our group through our simple acts, through our voluntary efforts.
Our kids who participated demonstrated community service and empathy and also got to learn a lot about wide range of medical supplies and their application.
Here’s a short video of less than 5 mins capturing the moments from the 3 hour event yesterday! Please view, like, comment and share with your friends and family. Let the positivity amplify!
Kalyan Jyoti 2023-4: Rakhi with Suwanee Police
The “Give back to Community” team
organized a very innovative local community
connect event in collaboration with the
Suwanee Police Department in Georgia.
During the event, our kids had the
opportunity to explain what Raksha Bandhan
means to Suwanee police officers and tied
Rakhis to them. The smiles and shared
moments were heartwarming. In addition,
the children had a chance to explore a police
car, adding an extra layer of excitement to
the day.We concluded the event with a
delightful light lunch, where kids and officers
shared a meal and stories, strengthening the
bonds of our community.
We are excited to share with you a video that
captures the magic, warmth, and unity of our recent Raksha Bandhan Celebration with
the Suwanee Police Department.
A special thank you goes out to the Suwanee Police Department for their support and
cooperation in making this event possible.
Kalyan Jyoti 2023-3: Save the horses
Our chapter is a busy chapter positively impacting our community in many ways. Keeping with our tradition of giving back to the community through our Kalyan Jyoti initiative, we had our third community service event of the year at ‘Save the Horses’ today. They are a non-profit organization run by volunteers, funded by donations, that adopts animals (horses, donkey, pigs, goats, chicken, turkey, peacock and much more – many of them dropped off at their location because of disabilities) and takes care of them giving them a good life. Our own odia community members actively participated and witnessed first hand how these animals receive love and care just through sheer volunteering work and love for animals. Many many thanks to Soubhagya and Subhranshu for leading this event and getting such a wonderful service opportunity for all of us!
Our volunteers joined hands with the Save the Horses team to clean their shelters, clean animal droppings, cut and clean trees, fix windows in their shelters and much more. Many children joined the event too and they loved getting close to the animals, petting them, grooming them, taking pictures with them etc. We were about 30 of us including kids and our contribution was visible in accomplishing a lot of work in just half a day.
The Save the Horses team loved having us and our positive attitude and significant contribution today. They have invited us for participating in more volunteer service days in future.
Here’s a little video capturing the activities and insight from today!
Kalyan Jyoti 2023-2: Meals by Grace with Vibha
Fantastic day of community service indeed! A wonderful turn out by parents and kids to give a part of their precious Sunday to give back to the community.
Thank you, @Prabir das Georgia for having started this collaboration with Vibha for such events involving youth, in such a strong note and proud of our community for a tremendous support! Look forward to doing more together in future!
Over 40 volunteers from our chapter spent a good 3+ hours making a difference to the people in need. Our youth liked it and learned a lot from it. Here’s a quick snippet under 3 min capturing our activities this afternoon.
Kalyan Jyoti2023-1: Books for Africa
On January 21st OSA Georgia volunteers participated in the first
Kalyan Jyoti, our community service event, of the year at Books for Africa (BFA), a non-profit organization committed to helping improve literacy and education in Africa by providing books to them. Our chapter members donated 1000+ books for all age groups. Our volunteers collected the books, transported them to the BFA warehouse. They also donated their labor to work alongside the BFA team for well over 4 hours to unload books from the containers, sort those by type and age group and help the team in making those ready for shipping to Africa. All our volunteers, especially kids, highly appreciated the event
and are looking forward to doing more to give back to the community.
Kalyan Jyoti 2022-1: Meals by grace
What an amazing day of community service! Our odia community volunteers including our youth had a very fulfilling day working at ‘Meals by Grace’ to pack and deliver food and other essential items for families in need. Everyone present enjoyed the activities a lot and wanted to do more and more often. The folks at Meals by Grace appreciated our involvement & impact and expressed their desire to continue our partnership!
All this was possible because of our enthusiastic volunteers including our youth, support from parents and above all the leadership from our Kalyan Jyoti leaders Soubhagya, Upendra and Umesh! Let’s continue this spirit of giving and keep our Kalyan Jyoti alight always! 🪔
Here’s a small clip capturing the day in 4 mins. Hope you enjoy!
Kalyan Jyoti2021-1: Meals by grace
On December 27th, OSA Georgia partnered with another charitable organization, “Meals by Grace” to bring food and happiness to families. We brought in food supplies for the items they were running low in stock to help feed families in need. We also helped pack and organize the food supplies to make it easier for distribution.
We had 19 members (11 kids and 8 adults) who spent about 4 hours helping sort & pack food items as well as pack birthday bags for families in need. It was especially heartening to see our children making a connection and working enthusiastically to get things done. We did a lot and did it with a smile.
The leaders at “Meals by Grace” appreciated our contribution and recognized the impact we made. In their words, what we did in 5 hours usually takes 3-4 weeks to complete. We, as OSA-GA volunteers, could invest a part of our day and make an impact as a group. We are really happy that we could start the trend of giving back to the local community for our chapter, with active engagement from our youth. Look forward to continuing this going forward.
Chapter Initiative Volunteers
Chapter Initiatives 2022 - 2024
SL# | Initiative(s) | Initiative Leads |
1 | Youth Volunteering Activities and Community Service Activities | Tarun Panda, Nitai Misra, Likun Mishra |
2 | Odia Shikhya | Smita Panda, Rani Acharya, Ranjita Palei |
3 | Community Outreach | Puspa Panda, Taruna Panda, Sushant Maharana, Roopesh Sahoo |
4 | Food Team | Satyaban Mohapatra, Manas Padhiary |
5 | Give back to Community | Soubhagya Rout, Rani Acharya |
6 | Visiting Parents Engagement | Saatwik Panda, Aparna Mohapatra, Sudhanshu Panda, Ranjeet Pani |
7 | Chapter Social Media – Facebook, Instagram, YouTube | Reetwik Das, Subhashree Panda |
8 | Chapter Events | Event Committees |
Chapter Initiatives 2020 - 2022
SL# | Initiative(s) | Initiative Leads |
1 | Youth Volunteering Activities | Prabir Das, Mona Misra, Ketan Rout |
2 | Community Service Activities for Odisha | Rani Acharya, Julu Mohanty, Rajesh Sabat |
3 | Sports Development and Promotion Activities | Dev Ray, Priya Ranjan Mohapatra, Suprakash Rath |
4 | Group Engagement Activities | Satyaban Mohapatra, Priya Ranjan Mohapatra, Manas Padhiary, Sushil Mishra |
5 | Fund Raising, Donation, and Event Sponsorship | Ritanjali Patnaik, Likun Mishra, Ripa Patnaik |
6 | Chapter Newsletter | Aparna Mohapatra, Smita Panda, Sujata Acharya |
7 | Chapter Promotion – Facebook, Instagram, YouTube | Mamata Buxi, Ritanjali Patnaik, Ranjita Palei |
8 | Chapter Events | Event Committees |
