The 2008 Honorees to be
celebrated at this year's
Loomba Foundation Gala
Diwali Dinner will be
announced soon. Past
honorees include: First Lady
Laura Bush; Dr. Craig
Barrett, Chairman of Intel;
Renuka Chowdhury, Minister
of Women and Child
Development, Government of
India; Yoko Ono and Rachel
Mayanja, UN Deputy Secretary
General. We will update this
site when further
information is available.
About The Loomba Foundation
The Loomba Foundation is a
sister charity of
the Loomba Trust,
founded in 1997 in the UK by
Raj Loomba. Inspired by his
late mother who, in 1954 at
age 37, became a widow in
India with seven children to
educate,
Raj Loomba dedicated
himself to improving
conditions for widows and
their children around the
world.
The Loomba Trust &
Foundation presently
educates over 3,600 children
of poor widows in all the 29
states of India. We also
support 1,500 HIV orphans in
South Africa in partnership
with Sir Richard Branson’s
Virgin Unite. The Loomba
Trust & Foundation
Entrepreneurship programs,
started earlier this year in
Kenya, Bangladesh, and Sri
Lanka, help widows establish
businesses and become
economically
self-sustaining. These
programs are in
collaboration with Youth
Business International,
which is HRH The Prince of
Wales’ charity in the UK.
The Loomba Trust &
Foundation are also working
to have the United Nations
recognize International
Widows Day to draw global
attention to the plight of
the estimated 100 million
destitute widows around the
world. International Widows
Day was launched in the UK
at the House of Lords in
2005.
The organization helps poor
widows and educates their
children, regardless of
gender or religion.
Loomba
Foundation Gala Diwali
Dinner 2008
Fundraising Gala
Wednesday, November
5, 2008
6:30pm - 11:30pm
160 Central Park South New
York , NY 10019
(212-247-0300)
Contact
Info
Email:
anicol@theloombafoundation.org