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Mission Statement
The Kutchi Cultural Association is a Community of Immigrants originally from Kutch, India who share a common goal to preserve the Kutchi Culture, Language, and Heritage.The Association seeks to preserve the Kutchi identity for future generations through cultural events and education forums.
History of the KCA (Kutchi Cultural Association)
In 2003, Akram Keval and Naheed Keval casually discussed what it would take to preserve the Kutchi culture, language, and heritage.The underlying reason was a general concern for children who were born in the United States/Canada lacking and understanding of the Kutchi culture and heritage.
After a few meetings they decided that a formal organization would benefit the Kutchi community. Akram had some experience working in different organizations in Kenya
and Naheed worked very closely similar organizations in Canada. Their joint experiences formed the KCA (Kutchi Cultural Association).
It was very hard to convince some of the members of the community that a cultural association was needed for the sake of future generations.
There was more interest in such an organization after presenting some ideas and thoughts that we need a 'Jamaat' like the ones in Kenya, Tanzania, England, India,
and Pakistan. "Kutchi Muslim Jamaat" and "Kutchi Sunni Muslim Jaamat" were some of the names that we thought of but we soon realized that it would be very confusing
and difficult to mix a religious/cultural based organization. Our main focus was to have and organization which promoted the Kutchi Culture.
After several discussions, it was agreed by consensus that we should name the organization "Kutchi Cultural Association" or "KCA"
for short - with one long term goal of registering as a nonprofit organization.
The main challenge was how to start this organization and make a great impression on the community. In order to get children involved along with parents,
we decided to have a play entirely in Kutchi in 2003. The play was the first of its kind with Indian songs, dances, comedy/jokes - entirely in Kutchi.
We wanted to make sure that all youth in community were a part of this organization. So after choosing a cast, and writing a play in Kutchi using
the English language, we performed the play as part of an Eid function on February 14th 2003. We had rented a small hall and had the play in the hall in Sacramento, CA.
It seemed there were as many cast and crew as there was an audience, but the feedback and excitement spread to young and old alike.
That was the beginning of KCA. After that we started having yearly community camping trips, sports days, bowling nights, community cleanup events and in the
distant future will have events such such as picnics, fundraisers, and other voluntary charity work.
Every year KCA also organizes an Eid function - we rent a hall and have either skit, fashion show, song and dance routines, dandia, garba, and other dancing and singing
performances to demonstrate our cultural heritage.
Our association has grown drastically and now we have more than 80 members.
We are now working on recruiting more members and have set an optimistic target of 200 members by 2012.
In 2005 Amjad Elias was elected as the first president of the KCA.
In March 2009 the KCA elected Mustak Keval as the new president of the KCA.
KCA Executive Committee Elected March 2009
| Chairperson | Treasurer | Secretary |
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 Mustak Keval |  Aslam Ahmed |  Mahil Keval |
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