Muniamma Social Club

Dear All Vanakam and Namaskaram to all. The Muniamma Social Club, an organisation that was started nearly 27 years ago in honour of our matriarch, Mrs Muniamma Coopoosamy Govender, is of immense cultural and historical significance to all the descendants of our ancestors. Over the past three decades only a few dozen people have taken a keen interest in the club and have paid their subscriptions on a regular basis. They went the extra mile to build the MSC into a solid foundation that now has a bank balance of nearly R95 000. The club, in addition, recently took the wonderful and humanitarian step of establishing the Muniamma Social Club Bursary Fund. This account stands at nearly R56 000. To reach this stage it has been due to a lot of hard work, sacrifice, dedication and commitment by a few officials, whose names are known to all. But one member of the family who has always come to our assistance is Mr Nanda Subramoney, the second son of the late Munien and Salatchi Subramoney. We will always be grateful to his generosity. Mr Nanda Subramoney had always dug into his pockets without asking for anything in return. We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr Subramoney and other unsung heroes and heroines who have kept the colours of our extended family flag flying high. At the same time most descendants have not become active members, although a lot of people have attended our biennial gatherings. We want to make it absolutely clear that our club is a cultural organisation that promotes our heritage, culture, history and languages. We have to be very proud of our roots - descendants of indentured labourers. I want to take this opportunity of extending an invitation to all our descendants to join our family social club, not because we offer monetary benefits, but because one want to strengthen our extended family and keep in touch with the new generation. One must realise that in this day of nuclear families we are losing touch with not only our first cousins but also the members of our extended family. We have to take the extra step of becoming involved in our club. We have created a Facebook site under the name of Muniamma Social Club and I will be posting this piece on the Facebook site. I would be very grateful if those who receive this email will also use the Facebook and post their family news about births, functions, weddings and other events. I would also be grateful if you could take a few minutes to supply me with the email addresses of as many extended family members as possible. Those who would like to join as members, the membership fee is R20 a month or R240 a year. Our banking details are as follows: Name of Account : Muniamma Social Club Bank : Standard Branch : Kingsmead Account : 055 700 357 Please note that the bank charges us bank fees of nearly R5 for cash deposits of R20 and about R27 for cash deposits of R240. It will, therefore, be of assistance if members could resist from making cash deposits and instead make transfers from your bank to our account. Our Muniamma Social Club Bursary Fund Account details are as follows: Name of account : Muniamma Social Club Bursary Fund Bank : Standard Branch : Verulam Account No. : 254 692 982 I want to invite family members to make donations to this Fund as we want to assist the under-privileged in our extended family to continue with their tertiary education. Some of our third generation and fourth generation descendants have aleady made donations to this account. They are as follows: 1. Mr Nanda Subramoney : R2 000 2. Mrs Vanessa Naidu(nee Nair) : R250 3. Kennedy Subranoney : R300 4. Koogendran Govender : R300 5. Seshini Subramoney : R300 We want to say a big thank you to all these wondeful people. I conclusion, I want to quote what Mahatma Gandhi once wrote: "We pass this world only once. So whatever good we can do let's do it now, because we will not pass this way again." Let me hear from you, other descendants and their families. Let us also use the Facebook site. Kind regards. M. Subramoney Chairman ------------------------------​-