{"id":68233,"date":"2025-12-23T05:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:19:04","slug":"pennsylvania-asian-indian-community-donates-to-local-causes-wilkes-barre-citizens-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68233\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Asian Indian Community donates to local causes \u2013 Wilkes-Barre Citizens&#8217; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Asian Indian Community nonprofit team and members recently held their annual holiday fundraiser and donated to three organizations, presenting checks to Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The donations included a $1,100 check and 100 pairs of hats and gloves and 96 scarves for the Christmas brunch for special-needs kids, which was held at Genettis; $1,000 for the Wilkes-Barre Special Needs Playground fund, and donations of 60 throw blankets, hats and neck warmers for homeless shelters in Wilkes-Barre<\/p>\n<p>Donors included Sunita Arora, Mona Pande, Neela Patel, Sonia Aulakh, Dr. Anu Singh, Dr. Leana Pande, Lalitha Sarada, Manju Verma, Dr. Srinivasan, Uma and anonymous donors.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Asian Indian Community nonprofit is a 501(3c) nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"From left, are Pennsylvania's Asian Indian Community  members Mona Pande, Lalitha Sarada and Uma Srinivasan with Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown, and Pennsylvania's Asian Indian Community member Dr. Srinivasan. SUBMITTED SUBMITTED\" width=\"2399\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/CVC-L-PAIDONATE-1228-2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1195514\" \/>From left, are Pennsylvania\u2019s Asian Indian Community  members Mona Pande, Lalitha Sarada and Uma Srinivasan with Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown, and Pennsylvania\u2019s Asian Indian Community member Dr. Srinivasan. SUBMITTED SUBMITTED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Asian Indian Community nonprofit team and members recently held their annual holiday fundraiser and donated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[524,182,803,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-68233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-luzerne-county","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}