The Sri Lankan Association of Geneva is proud to announce that the 2013 Sinhala & Tamil New Year will be celebrated with a Gala Dinner Dance – “Erabadu Mangalya”, on Saturday 13 April 2013 from 18:00 hrs to 02:00 at Salle Polyvalane d’Aire, 11, chemin du Grand-Champ inVernier. Live entertainment from a Sri Lankan band, a traditional grand Sri Lankan buffet, raffle draws with airline tickets and various other entertaining programmes are scheduled for the evening. The Committee wishes to invite all Sri Lankans and friends in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in this grand gala evening.

More details are displayed in the promotional flyer.

The Annual Geneva Sri Lankan Association Year-End Party for 2012 took place on 1^st December at Les Avanchet,  Geneva.  The occasion was well attended by expatriate Sri Lankans living in Geneva and other neighbouring cities of Switzerland.

H.E. Mr. Ravinatha Aryasinha, Sri Lanka’s new Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, also participated in the evening’s proceedings. Santa also paid a visit and distributed Christmas gifts to the kids.

Dear SLAG members and well-wishers,

We are pleased to inform you that our annual christmas Dinner Dance will be held on Saturday, 01 December 2012 from 17.30 hrs to 23.30 hrs. Your participation and encouragement would be highly appreciated.

Soft drinks and water will be provided courtesy of SLAG. Beer and wine will be sold during the event and will be reasonably priced.

A Talk on “Mental Health development in Sri Lanka: The role of the community” was conducted by Professor Nalaka Mendis (FRCPsych) at Quaker hall on Friday, 19^thOctober. Professor Mendis is renowned for his work in Psychiatry in Sri Lanka and he is currently Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Colombo and the President of the National Council for Mental Health “Sahanaya”

The Summer Picnic held on Sunday, 26th August at the Parc de Jonc in Grand Saconnex was a huge success with the participation of not only those from Geneva but also Bern and Zurich as well. To make up for the lack of a Sinhala and Tamil New Year party, several fun activities and games like coconut scraping, tug-o-war, Kotta pora, sac race were organized with prizes. Almost all of the youngsters and most of the adults showed great sporting spirit by participating in at least one event and there were smiles and cheers all round for all the games.

The last fundraising event for the year was held in Paquis on 22nd and 23rd of September and again, we were lucky with the weather as it was regularly sunny with no rain. On the first day of the event, we did something different by selling Indian Pakoda (vegetables fried in batter) which proved to be quite a hit.

However, there were also many ‘SLAG food stall regulars’ who asked us for our typical Sri Lankan food (In fact quite a few had actively looked for our stall during lunch time). And so, the next day, we provided the traditional dish of rice, dhal, chicken curry and papadam and it goes without saying, that this was a definite hit!