Chandigarh News- Beauty & Brains Trust to organise Exhibition cum Sale at Kalagram on October 11-12
Author(s): Specttrum NewsHarf Cheema and actress Sameksha Singh of Jatt in Golmaal-fame launch the new website of the Beauty & Brains Welfare Trust www.bbwt.org Chandigarh, October 9, 2013: A two-day Exhibition-cum-Sale will be organised...
Chandigarh, October 9, 2013: A two-day Exhibition-cum-Sale will be organised by Beauty & Brains Welfare Trust at Kalagram on October 11-12.
The exhibition will be open for general public between 10 AM to 10 PM on both the days. A cultural show is also planned along with the exhibition, where several Punjabi singers will entertain the visitors. Tambola is another attraction at the event.
Punjabi singer Harf Cheema will perform on the opening day.
Harf Cheema and actress Sameksha Singh of Jatt in Golmaal-fame also launched the new website of the trust www.bbwt.org
Addressing a press conference at Chandigarh Press Club here today, Shruti Verma, President, Beauty & Brains Welfare Trust, said, “Ours is a charitable organisation dedicated for the empowerment of women and orphans. The trust got registered early this year. Apart from creating awareness on various isues, this time we are holding this exhibition-cum-sale, where most of the goods are either created by women or the stalls are being managed by them.”
Monica Kapoor, General Secretary, informed that there will be a total of 26 stalls, where goods related to crafts, furniture, readymade suits, cloths, artificial jewellary and cosmetics will be on display. There will also be joy rides for children. Most of the suits, candles and craft items are made by housewives and orphan kids. The event would be graced by celebrities and famous personalities of Chandigarh tricity.
Beauty & Brains Welfare Trust gifts dreams to the children victimised in a perilous red light area, to her trafficked mother benumbed by sexual violence, to the languishing prisoners, to the children invisible behind the high walls of the observation homes, to the orphans on the street, to the stick-tapping visually challenged woman on the speeding trains, to the slum children who are written off to be a child labourer and perseveres in the enkindling of dying dreams all across tri-city.
The organisation has been engaged in various projects such as Blood Donation camps, Adoption of Girl Child, Free Operations, Leporacy Camps, Adoption of Orphans, Sports, etc.
Anju Singla, Coordinator, and Veena Aggarwal, Executive Member, were also present on the occasion.