PRASHANT KUMAR
CHICAGO: Keeping up their years-long tradition, Metropolitan Asian Family Services (MAFS) and Universal Metro Asian Services (UMAS) celebrated Diwali and Lakshmi Puja at MAFS Howard Chicago facility October 26 in a grand manner and with lot of religious fervor.
The hall where seniors get together every day overflowed with guests, invitees, staff members and a number of senior citizens from across Chicagoland.
To celebrate this auspicious festival, the MAFS Chicago location was beautifully decorated by ADS Coordinator Pankaj Patel and her team.
Pandit Jagdishbhai Joshi conducted the puja performed by Santosh Kumar, Prashant Kumar and Sagar Kumar along with MAFS staff and seniors.
The center echoed with chants of devotional. The puja was followed by a lunch prepared by the kitchen staff of Chicago location.
