The Houston Chapter presents, “THE GLOBAL BUSINESS CONNECTION", on Sunday, 25th May, 2008. To register, contact Cyra Kanga @ 281.969-8057 or email her at crkanga@yahoo.com.

Every year, the WZCC honors individuals by awarding Recognition Awards in 3 categories - Outstanding Zarathushti Entrepreneur, Outstanding Zarathushti Professional, Outstanding Young Zarathushti Professional / Entrepreneur. The criteria for nominations for the year 2008 are available here. The last date for nominations is 31 July 2008. Please send in your nominations (the nominees need not be members of WZCC) and encourage your friends and relatives to do likewise before the due date.

After the grand success of the Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP) in June 2006, the World Zarathushti Chamber Of Commerce – India (WZCC– I), is organizing a similar training program – Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP). This is a residential training program scheduled during 28th April to 3rd May 2008, and will be conducted by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), at its campus at Ahmedabad.

Meeting of December 14, 2007

The Thinking Youth Program held at AZA House was discussed and the success it had.

WZCC Global AGM 2007

The World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce (WZCC), hosted a two-day event in Pune (Jan 12/13, 2008), to celebrate the Zarathushti spirit of enterprise.

WZCC Houston Chapter Proudly Presents a talk by Mr. Atul Vir, President Equator Advanced Appliances, on “How I became an Entrepreneur and why I can’t go back”, on Nov 28, 2007, at Madras Pavilion Restaurant.

The Youth Leadership Enhancement Program is an initiative of the 9th World Zoroastrian Congress.

The program offers community youth members between ages of 23 to 35 years an opportunity to be ‘Future Responsible Leaders’.

for more details.

The Trade Delegation to Pakistan in September, was a resounding success. Many Opportunities were opened up and thanks to Byram Avari, it was a most satisfying experience. Please look up some photographs already put up in the Gallery Section, with more to follow.
for Circular, Programme, Participants Profiles, etc.

WZCC-Australia to hold its members meeting for 2007. for more details.

Mr. Firoz (Phil) K. Pestonji, Aussie Info Tech is launching a fashion product show this Sunday, 29th July 07, in Perth for products as provided by Technica / Monidel of Thane (A WZCC member- Percy Karani ). They will be selling their Parsi fashion products range like Garas, embroidered kurtis, table napkin range etc.

One Day Business Cell Seminar: It was a sultry Sunday morning – 15 July 2007 - when a band of 27 enthusiastic entrepreneurs descended on the Nehru Science Center, each one with a fire in his/her belly and an open mind. And that was all that was needed. for the Report & presentations made during the seminar.

WZCC Houston & North Texas (Dallas) Chapters, Present A World Perspective on the WZCC at Zarathushti Heritage and Cultural Center on Sunday, June 24, 2007. to see the announcement.

The Zoroastrian Society of Ontario (ZSO) was very pleased to host the XIV North American Zoroastrian Congress “IMPACT – Unleash the Spark Within!” The Congress was held in Toronto, Canada from Friday June 29 to Monday, July 2, 2007.

to download the Report. The website for the congress is operational at www.zoro-impact.com.

As part of IMPACT!, the WZCC Toronto Chapter had developed an interactive program for Friday June 29, 2007 to help you explore your entrepreneurial potential and work with event attendees in a real-world, business simulation game. Working with facilitators from Big Fish Interactive, you will develop business plans, marketing strategies, make production decisions, negotiate contracts and win market share in a fast moving environment.

WZCC Iran Region working committee to hold the 1st World Zarathushti Trade, Industrial & Cultural Fair. This fair is in the planning stage. We propose to hold this fair at Tehran somewhere in Mid September, 2007 for a period of 7 days.

On March 14, 2007, nearly 50 members and guests of WZCC-Houston Chapter
Gathered at Madras Pavilion, Sugar Land, and listened attentively to Rustom Engineer talk about opportunities regarding Franchise Businesses.

Collecting data for the largest Zoroastrian Directory in the world, online.

Yazdi Tantra (yazdi@on-lyne.com) is in the process of collecting data for the largest Zoroastrian Directory in the world, online. He has already aggregated more than 50,000 names and addresses from published / public sources from all over the world. Please do take some time off to have a look at www.theparsidirectory.com, register yourself and your friends and relatives. If you have access to any directories online or offline or if you could put Yazdi in touch with someone who can help in furthering the process, he will assist in getting that data online, including conversion of data into electronic form, if need be.