Ekal Vidyalaya’s Fund-Raising Success in 2016
By Prakash Waghmare HOUSTON: As India is emerging as an economic power on the world stage, there is another contrarian reality by its side which is quite unsettling. Even in this technologically advance new millennium, there are tens of thousands rural-tribal areas in India, which are yet to be touched by the existential necessities and […]
IACF Funds 21 Charities Serving Local Houston Community
Click Here for Photo Collage By Vanshika Vipin SUGAR LAND: For the past three decades the Indo-American Charity Foundation (IACF) has been receiving generous support from the philanthropic community in Houston, in the genres of Education, Family, General needy and Healthcare. IACF’s motto, ‘We live here We give here’, is being justified in […]
Sewa ASPIRE: Lego Drive
HOUSTON: Sewa International held a LEGO Drive at the Texas Robotics Invitational on Saturday, June 25, held at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory High School. Abhishek Routray, a mechanical engineering student at U.T. Austin and Sewa intern, set up a booth at the robotics competition to collect LEGO toys for the children Sewa works with. Routray […]
Ek Disha Foundation and Indo American Charity Foundation Combine Efforts to Aid Flood Victims
HOUSTON: On Friday, May 5, two Houston based South Asian organizations, the Ek Disha Foundation and the Indo American Charity Foundation, combined fundraising efforts to present the Cypress Assistance Ministries (CAM) with $5000 in HEB gift cards (two hundred $25 gift cards) to assist the flood victims in the 77084 zip code. The 77084, an […]
2016 Gala: Daya Goes Over the Rainbow
By Anand Ramaswamy HOUSTON: Consider yourself at home, consider yourself part of the family… Thus began the program celebrating Daya Houston’s 20th Anniversary of empowering South Asian women, their children and families to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence and reclaim their lives. Beautifully sung by HSPVA’s Sara Trogdon, and accompanied on the […]
Pratham Houston Gala 2016: Spectacular Fashion Show by Manish Malhotra
By Karina Hooda HOUSTON: Pratham will be hosting its 2016 Houston Gala on Saturday, April 23. The event will be held at the Hilton Americas on 1600 Lamar Street in Houston Texas, at 6 pm. The Gala is co-Chaired by Ajay and Dr. Sippi Khurana and Bashar and Brigitte Kalai. The Emcees for the evening […]
Sankara Eye Foundation’s Successful Fundraising Campaign
Sankara Eye Foundation marks a successful year end fundraising campaign for hospitals in Hyderabad and Indore and surpasses the anonymous matching challenge!! Sankara Eye Foundation, USA (SEF, USA), a non-profit organization established in the Bay Area, has been working for the past fifteen years with Sankara Eye Foundation, India (SEF, India) to eradicate curable blindness […]
Indo Americans at UNICEF Ball Lend a Helping Hand
HOUSTON: The U.S. Fund for UNICEF hosted the third annual UNICEF Audrey Hepburn® Society Ball on Friday, November 6 at the Hilton Americas Hotel, which raised funds to support UNICEF’s work to put children first. The event honored former First Lady Barbara Bush with the Margaret Alkek Williams Humanitarian Award for her commitment to furthering […]
American India Foundation raises $200,000 for India initiative
WASHINGTON: American India Foundation (AIF) has raised $200,000 for its Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI), designed to reduce maternal and child mortality in rural, impoverished areas of India. Founded in 2001 at the initiative of then US President Bill Clinton, the community organisation engaged in catalysing social and economic change in India, raised the […]
Feed a Hungry Child’s Stomach at School and Educate His Mind
Click here for Photo Collage By Jawahar Malhotra SUGAR LAND: In a poignant moment towards the end of the program, the Akshaya Patra Board Chairman Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande acknowledged the contribution of the man who worked tirelessly half a dozen years ago to start the local chapter in Houston. A physician who had pursued an […]
Houston Area Great American Cookies Locations Raise Over $100,000
SUGAR LAND: Global Franchise Group (GFG), the Franchisor of Great American Cookies, Pretzelmaker partnered with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a Special Friend for their Light The Night Campaign in the fight against cancer. GFG’s “A Bite for the Fight”; fundraising campaign will reach $1 million this year to support The Leukemia & […]
Refugee Youth are Receiving Help from Sewa International
HOUSTON: An unanticipated need for educational support for refugee youth has developed at the Los Arcos apartments in Southwest Houston. Each day, an increasing number of refugee children approach Sewa International’s field office asking for help with their homework. Refugees face a host of vulnerabilities when adjusting to their new lives in the United States. […]
Sankara Eye Foundation Brings Award Winning Community Eye Care to Rajasthan
Rajasthan, literally means,” land of kings” and conjures the rich vibrant colors of the culturally rich and artistic part of India. Endowed with natural beauty and a great history, tourism is a flourishing industry in Rajasthan, ranking it among the fourth highest among Indian states in attracting tourist visitors. Unfortunately, Rajasthan is also ranked the […]
Walkathon for Child Rights
SUGAR LAND: Millions of children can only dream of having the basic rights to live, learn, play and grow. The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child grants children four basic human rights: the right to survival, development, participation and protection. CRY supports organizations in India and the US and has transformed the […]
Sankara Eye Foundation Hosts First Banquet in Houston
HOUSTON: Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF) is proud to announce it first ever Banquet in Houston on Nov. 8, in celebration of the inauguration of its ninth eye care hospital in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and performing over 1.2 million free eye surgeries. Established in 1998, Sankara Eye Foundation (SEF), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, has been working […]
The Magic Bus is on a Journey
Click here for photo collage By Vanshika Vipin HOUSTON: The Magic Bus is on its journey with its second event of the year, a Charity Gala, first being the Farhan Akhtar show back in April. Houstonians gathered at the JW Marriott, Westheimer, on Saturday, October 11 for a full house event for Magic […]
Wishful Crafts
By Summer Singh HOUSTON: My name is Summer Singh, and I have begun a non-profit called Wishful Crafts. Wishful Crafts makes dreamcatchers and employs help from my peers in school and others. With every dreamcatcher made, Wishful Crafts continues to donate all the proceeds towards the Ronald McDonald House in Houston, Texas. Dreamcatchers, or the […]
A Musical Evening Jazzes Up Friends as they Help Others
By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: As predictable as the Spring showers and the reassuring touch of a friend’s steady hand during a crisis, the local quiet little charity that has made its mark on scores of desperate people who have no other place to turn to for medical help, Friends Helping Friends celebrated its thirteenth year […]
MTS Raises Million Dollars for the Main Temple Project
By Chandana Golla PEARLAND: Sri Meenakshi Temple fundraising committee set a monumental goal to be met for the Main Temple Renovation Project (M.T.R.P.). Target – One Million. “Shantham and Subhiksham” (Peace and Prosperity) was the theme for this year’s MTS annual banquet which was held on Sunday, August 17. For the first time in MTS […]
Packed Turnout for IACF’s Charity Casino Night and Scholarship Awards
Click here for photo collage By Jawahar Malhotra HOUSTON: You felt a rush just getting into the packed lobby of the Aloft Hotel on Westheimer and Sage. The two-level lobby is Scandinavian modern chic and has plenty of seating spread around, with oversized table lamps, a color changing LED infused bar counter with a […]
