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Women members of the Federation of Indian Associations of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (FIA Tristate), along with women employees of the Indus American Bank and Cox &Kings Global Services, the Indian visa processing agency, inaugurated the April 4 visa camp to mark International Women’s Day, which was observed March 8. The visa camp, held at the Indus American Bank in Plainsboro, New Jersey, hosted by the FIA along with the Indus American Bank and Cox & Kings, was inaugurated by cutting a purple ribbon cutting to honor Indian-American women.
Attendees at the event included Anil Bansal, executive chairman and founder of Indus American Bank, Dhirendra Singh, Consul (Consular, Passport, Visa & OCI/PIO) at the Consulate General of India in New York, Mercedes Turner, chief of HR for Cox &Kings Global Services, Alka Aggrawal, COO of EBC Radio; FIA Chairman Ramesh Patel, FIA President Ankur Vaidya, FIA members Andy Bhatia and Mahesh Dubbal, and Ranjit Singh, manager at Cox &Kings Global Services, New York.
According to Vaidya, the event aimed to empower women and mark International Women’s Day. Women make up 70 percent of the 1.2 billion population around the world living in poverty; they contribute to 67 percent of the work hours performed around the world and yet get paid 10 percent of the world’s income and own 1 percent of the world’s properties,” Vaidya said. “It is high time that we unite as one to work collectively in empowering our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters for a better and equal tomorrow” he added.
The event supported two charities that work to empower women – Svayam of India, and Manavi, a New Jersey-based organization dedicated to ending all forms of violence against South Asian women.
The FIA initiative, which is the first of its kind, will not be our last one and the group will contribute and support towards more causes that empower our women” Patel said.
The ceremony was followed by the visa camp were a total of 107 applications were processed during the course of the day. The camps are held for residents of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, with approximately 1,000 applications processed at various camps held so far.
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