The Loomba Foundation

Bharat Widows Empowerment Fund is a new flagship initiative of the Foundation for empowering rural widows in every state of India through sustainable livelihood programs

Bharat Widows Empowerment Fund

The Loomba Foundation conceived the strategy to create awareness about the issues of widows, their sufferings and humiliating existence.

Birth of Loomba Foundation

It is a United Nations Day, set up to highlight the plight of widows, degrading harmful rituals and traditional practices in many countries around the world.

International Widows Day

Perceived as a curse rather than a misfortune, it is an unending cycle of deprivation and consequences that last for many decades

Education

Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched our project to empower 5000 widows in Varanasi in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Empowerment of widows

The Loomba Foundation has been raising awareness of the plight of widows through advocacy and publications of several books over the years.

Advocacy/Publication

Loomba Foundation’s President Lady Cherie Blair and USISPF’s President Dr. Mukesh Aghi signed a Partnership MOU in London in the presence of HE Vikram Doraiswamy

Partnerships

25 Years of
The Loomba Foundation

The Loomba Foundation extended its reach beyond India, with education and empowerment programs in other countries across Asia, Africa and South America. Raj Loomba realized, however, that the problem could never be fully addressed without concerted global action to raise awareness, fight injustice and change deep-rooted cultures

Partnership with the
US-India Strategic Partnership Forum

The Loomba Foundation and the
US-India Friendship Alliance, the charitable arm of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, have entered into a partnership to empower 5000 poor and disadvantaged widows in India to become economically independent through skills training…