Charity Dinner

I met some amazing people the other day who are so compassionate and so wonderful that it made me feel privileged to know the people behind an amazing charity called “ Support for World in Need”.

I was introduced by a dear friend, Glancy and I am just bowled over with the charity events they do to raise money from building orphanages in Sri lanka, providing medical equipment to a hospital in Kosovo and Skopje, Intensive care equipment to a hospital for abandoned babies in Romania, Aid for flood victims in Ghana.

These are just a few of the amazing things they have done in the past year and I am sure it made a difference to the well deserved and most needy. I met couple of people, Violet and Shirley who were behind this charity and would love to know more and involve myself more for this worthy charity. Couple of weeks back, Shirley organised an Indian event at her place to raise money for an orphanage in Sri lanka.

I was totally gobsmacked when she sold out all the tickets to have a lovely Indian dinner for a small price and all the money raised went to this orphanage in Sri Lanka. Myself and my other friend Glancy went to help her for the first time. It was totally an amazing experience and I felt happy at the end of the day that I atleast did help in a very small way. My hearty congrats to Shirley and Violet who deserve all the praise in the world and huge support for the all hard work they put in make this charity work.

Here are a few pictures of the Charity Dinner and the food that was absolutely delicious as we could see everyone going for second helpings.

Menu was:

Aubergine Bhajjis

Onion Bhajjis

Cauliflower Bhajjis

Samosas

Chickpeas curry

Potato curry

Minced lamb curry(Kheema)

Chicken curry

Naan and

Vegetable Fried Rice

and Gulab Jamuns

Stumble it!

Padmaja 24 April 2008 Charity Event

10 comments so far

Meena
#1

April 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Wow thats so amazing! And the food, oh my, I;m just bowled over! Did you guys cook all that by yourself?

Oh yes Meena, we did it all by ourselves. We felt really good at the end of the day so its definitely making a difference to few lives.
Annu
#2

April 24th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Wow…….awesome.andhra peru niliparu:-).

Mouth watering pics…….

Annu thank you!! manamu andharamu involv aayi edhanna ila chesthe entha bavuntundhi kadhaaa
Cynthia
#3

April 24th, 2008 at 4:07 am
This is awesome and I want to offer my congratulations to Shriley and Violet too and to you Padmaja for bringing this to light and joining up to make a contribution. This is the kind of thing we should all be involved in.

Cynthia, thank you very much for offering your amazing support.
I have always talked about about helping, worrying about poor people but never really tried from within Cynths and now atleast I am trying to be a part of this amazing charity and make a small difference to atleast one person.
if we all think that way, imagine how it will be?
Srivalli
#4

April 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Padmaja, this is fabulous!..great work..convey my congrats to your friends..and thank you very much for sharing this with us!

Valli thnk you and ya will pass on your amazing wishes to my friends as well.
Jamie
#5

April 24th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
What an amazing spread of food!

Thank u very much
nanditha
#6

April 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
padmaja,
you are indeed very blessed to be part of such an endeavour.

thanks for stopping by my space and leaving comments. You made my day!

Thank you nanditha and I am so glad I found your amazing blogs, Will definitely visit u more often now
Sig
#7

April 26th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
That is an awesome cause, and it must’ve felt great to be part of this right? The spread looks amazing Padmaja, and you look great in the Sari…

Oh yes Sig, felt really happy for doing soemthing nice. Sometimes its wonderful when u meet such inspiring people around you
Pravs
#8

April 27th, 2008 at 12:10 am
hey you looks so good in sari Nice spread of food and really and nice cause.

Pravs, thanks my dearest, Ya anything for a good cause, we have another one in couple of weeks so really looking forward to it
Mallika
#9

April 28th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
You look lovely and that food looks spectacular! What a fantastic thing to do for charity. I just auctioned an Indian cooking class at a charity fundraiser.

Thnks Mallika, after 2 years I draped myself and was so uncomfortable. But atleast It looked good right??
Wow, Indian cooking class, wonderful Mallika, if u need any help do let me know.
sangeeth
#10

May 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hats off to you padmaja, your food looks awesome and its cooked for a good cause. You look beautiful in saree too…:)
Thank you Sangeeth
Exactly, it was indeed a great charity event and to see compassionate people who were ready to donate for a very good cause