The Mississauga Jiahua Chinese Senior Association was to start 10 years ago and this year is the 10th anniversary. All this Jiahua Senior Association was originated in April 2009 by 5 volunteers and has been registered with the federal government as the not-for-profit organization. June is the Ontario Seniors month and the promotion is “Aging strong: respect and protect seniors” and is also the Jiahua goal as well. Today we celebrate our 10th anniversary, the Jiahua AGM and the Ontario Seniors month by listing what we have accomplished last year and the 2018 financial summary.
In the following goals are what Jiahua strongly believe:
Regular participation in the community center meetings: to meet the city government requirements on using the community center space for the activities. Maintaining and reporting the good attendance records to (FMCC) to encourage the city administrators to strongly support our events, to plan & to provide adequate space/ service to make all activities running smoothly.
Expansion of seniors favors: arts & culture, recreation, physical exercise, and keeping the high-calibers teachers. Last year without any government grant and without increasing the membership fee, all members can freely participate in any 14 available classes that are guided by the devoted and talented teachers. What make us proud are that Jiahua has so many good professional, responsible volunteer- teachers, and prime spaces available to us. That is the reason why Jiahua has such a good reputation.
Involvement in the main stream of Canadian society to promote Chinese arts & cultures by participating in Mississauga multi-cultural festivals. Actively participating in the public performance, last year Jiahua Performing Arts Group (affiliated with MJCSA) has attended 9 large public performances and received very favorable reviews. These performances include other culture community festivals such as: Pakistan Community multi-cultures festival, Indian Community multi-cultures festival, Dixie-Bloor community summer festival, Mississauga Carassauga multi-cultures festival, Brampton multi-cultures festival, Chinese Service Association activity event, Niagara Falls multi-cultures festival, Yunnan association New Year celebration, Huiba Lion Dance festival, Brampton Seniors Home. Here we express our sincere gratitude to our Jiahua Performing Arts Group that is composed of Chinese Folk-Dance, Tai-Chi and Music Instrument teams. These teams donated their time/ energy to perform in Mississauga and its surrounding cities to demonstrate Jiahua seniors’ talents and volunteer service.
Last year we have gained 57 new members and have a total of 13,096 person participations.
The official Jiahua web site (test1.mjcsa.ca) is getting better all the times and we are thankful to our web coordinator (Eva Tai). We can promptly update the activity message on time at the web site and welcome members to send their favored pictures & descriptions to Eva to upload to the web site.
Jiahua activities will become better all the times are because you as the member have put efforts. Here we congratulate everyone to be loyal to Jiahua for better or for worse to participate in our activities these years. The members love and affiliation will promote our association to the next higher level.
Points to be thankful:
We are very thankful to the City of Mississauga and Frank Mckechnie Community Center to fully support our seniors to provide such nice facility and service. It is very fortunate for us that we have received such VIP facility service that no other seniors associations could match.
To be thankful to all Executive Board members to devote their time to participate board meetings, to plan the schedule, to maintain/ purchase the necessities for the events, to ensure every event carry out smoothly. The board members come from China/Hong Kong / Taiwan to work together to deal with Jiahua events without personal agenda.
To be thankful to all teachers for their devotion on patiently teach us even we have such short memory and playful characters, for their leaderships to carry out all plans related from the Executive Board.
To be thankful to all unsung volunteers in each team for their assistance, and especially to those audio equipment controllers for their full attendance on any major event.
That is all for today AGM report, Thanks to everyone and please enjoy today’s performance.
