WELCOME TO MALAYSIA ODIA ASSOCIATION!
www.malaysiaodia.org Website Inaugurated by Datuk Ramli Ibrahim
Deepavali Celebration, October 21, 2017,
Kuala Lumpur
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I’m thankful to the community for helping me to overcome the issues I had with passport renewal while in India.
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MOC helped me to get volunteers to teach Odia language to Malaysian ethnic Odias of more than 200, I’m really obliged.
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Thank you so much community members, without your help I could not have got cured of my skin disease with best ever treatment that too with a very affordable cost.
OBJECTIVE OF OUR ASSOCIATION
The primary objective of this society is to promote Odia culture, beyond Odisha and provide a platform to the Odias in Malaysia, to augment our cultural diversity.
Besides this, the other objectives are;
- To form a secular, non-profit organization with the help of people from Odisha residing/working in Malaysia.
- To engage in exchange of cultural talents to promote the culture of Odisha.
- To form a support group for fellow Odias, needing assistance.
- To extend services to the needy/ during natural calamities, back home in Odisha.
- To extend possible services to the existing Malaysian Odias (People of Indian Origin).
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FAMILIES
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INTERACTIONS
HISTORY OF ODIAS IN MALAYSIA
In ancient Orissa there were two types of trading ship, known as common ships and special ships, with the common ships in turn divided into ten categories, and the special ships into two: high and wide ships and long and wide ships. The ships were 8 to 80 meters long, 5 to 25 meters wide, and 3 to 27 meters high.[1] Rules and regulations regarding construction of ships were recorded in the Sanskrit Juktikalpataru….Read More
