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Lion Sushi on 1 st July
2004, became the first woman to be a District Governor in Lions
District 411-A ( Kenya and Ethiopia ) after 47 years of Lionism
in East Africa . She is also the first Oshwal Lady in the world
to attain this position.
She joined Lioness Club of Nakuru in
1978 and since then has served in various positions. As a District
Governor she has to visit all the 80 Clubs in Kenya and Ethiopia
with a membership of 2,000. Sushi is a widely travelled Lady
who has attended 23 District Conventions, 8 India, South Asia,
Africa & Middle East Forums, 3 Europa Forum and 3 International
Conventions. She is a professional Floral Demonstrator. She
is an International Floral Judge and a Judge for Kenya Horticultural
Society.She
is a master in Floristry and Ikebana International. |
“Many things can wait … the
child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being
formed, His blood is being made, His senses being developed.
To him we cannot answer tomorrow, His name is Today” These
are the words that inspired Sushi to have her theme of
activities this year as “Children our Concern” This
year under this program, she has visited about 100 children’s
Home and the Lions Clubs have served 100,000 children by
providing food, clothing, shelter, medicine and education.
She has also started Childhood Blindness Prevention Program
where about 20,000 children have been screened for eye
defects. The Clubs major activity is eye Camps and this
year 12,000 cataract surgeries have been done in Eye Camps
and about 6,000 at Loresho Lions Eye Hospital in Nairobi
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Sushi has taken up a challenging project of Heart Babies.
In this program, Lions Club treat babies and children with
congenital heart disease free. She managed to send three babies
to Bangalore , India for complicated heart surgery and 40 have
been treated in Nairobi . She hopes to reach a target of 75
by 30 th June 2005 when her term ends.
Before Sushi became a District Governor, she had been running
classes for flower arrangements for over 15 years. She has
carried out many workshops in flower arrangements and being
a judge at various flower shows in many parts of the world.
She also has an appetite in making & decorating cakes and
ran classes for the same. Both Sushi and Amu Shah have been
involved in community work for over 30 years.
In her spare time, if she has any, Sushi enjoys gardening
and her love to flowers & plants. For her this is a most
intimate pleasure – no other hobby provides such satisfying
recreation. Gardening is one of the ways by which humans and
nature come together in order to create beauty and shape our
destiny. She says that gardening fills everyone with joy.
Apart from all this she plays a keen role as a wife to Amu
Shah (former District Governor), mother to Manisha, mother
in law to Rajiv and grandmother to Riana. Sushi was born in
Mombasa , Kenya and now resides in the Rift Valley town of
Nakuru .
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