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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

Christmas is round the corner and everyone definitely are busy with organising everything right from gifts to decorations and planning family meal. In all this excitement, I was quite busy till I saw Joanna’s mail about the incredible event  Menu For Hope which takes place around Christmas. For those of you who are hearing about this for the first time, its a campaign involves Food Bloggers around the world each donating something to be raffled off online for charity. Everyone will get to read about raffle items and then place a bid  and there by entering their name for any raffle prize  they would love to have for Christmas and at the end of the campaign, winners are chosen using a software application, after which the hosts will tell people the good news of what they have won. (More Details at Joanna’s blog)

The money will be going to the World Food Programme (WFP), Have a look at what kind of amazing changes are happening around the world  with the money raised by amazing events like this and with little help from everyone at a festive time like this. This year, the WFP has allowed us to earmark the funds to a specific program and the chosen place is school feeding program in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho which is a place in fellow blogger Jeanne’s home country, South Africa! I know every little help really changes lives of those amazing kids who not only deserve to live by at-least having a proper meal a day. I, a proud mom to my little one makes my heart bleed for those poor kids suffering from malnutrition and disease before they reach five. We are hoping to raise as much money as we can to help them. The kingdom is confronting the triple threat of increasing chronic poverty, rising HIV/AIDS rates and weakened government capacity. This threat takes a heavy toll on the households of the rural poor in Lesotho, who are faced with a limited number of coping strategies to respond to the intensifying hazard. 56% of the population live on less then $2 per day. Its heart wrenching to even think that so please donate whatever you can and win some fantastic prizes.

I AM PROUD TO BE DONATING:

                                                  (PRIZE CODES: UK23 and UK29)

2 of Anjum Anand’s Easy Indian Cooking,  her recipes are clear, straightforward, simple, healthy and concise.I was totally amazed at how easy they were to follow and absolutely loved it and I guess it would be an amazing gift to any Indian Food Lover who wants to try making it home. I am going to add the five basic, authentic ,traditional Spices needed to kick-start Indian Cooking at home. The following prizes make great gifts, and each item will be sent to the raffle winner neatly packed and shipping expenses paid. This particular cookbook is an amazing gift to anyone who loves Indian Food.

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