Vocational Service Awards Distribution The felicitation program on January 23rd was organised and conducted by Ann Madhavi Kulkarni. It started with beautiful song rendered by Annet Ananya Joglekar praising Shri Sharada, the Goddess of various art forms.
The first recipient was Mr. Harish Shah. His vocational art form being “Patwekari”. He was introduced by Manjiri Kuvavala. Mr Shah was accompanied by his wife. The second recipient was Mr. Dattatreya Bhosale. His specialisation being Rafoo work (darning).
Introduction of Mr Bhosale was given by Rtn Aparna Sowani and some videos of Mr Bhosale at work were shown.
The third awardee was Mr Vaijnath, a Gardner. His introduction was done by Sujata Mhalgi. Some photographs of his plants and flowers were shown. Mr Vaijnath was accompanied by his wife and daughter.
The forth recipient was Ms Sonali Pawar Her skill set being massaging. She was introduced by Madhavi Kulkarni. All awardees expressed their thanks for the recognition given to them by Rotary Club of Pune Metro.
The awardees got very emotional and said that they had very humble beginning. All the recipients were self-made and learnt the skills by their own hard work. One common factor of all was their commitment to their trade & the love & respect they received from their clients. Mr. Harish Shah said that his art is a dying art as nobody is interested to take up this art as their livelihood. So he expressed his willingness to teach this trade to any young person so that this art-form sustains.
