New Delhi, August 8, 2016: The Loomba Foundation, a global NGO accredited with the United Nations under DPI and ECOSOC, has announced a partnership project with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Lions Clubs International British Isles and Ireland to provide dignified livelihoods to 2600 impoverished widows in and around India’s holy city of […]
The Loomba Foundation and USISPF also addressed the poverty, injustice and complete lack of opportunities for millions of widows across the globe at this reception October 20, 2022 The partnership was launched in the presence of Smt Smriti Irani, Union Minister of Women & Child Development and other distinguished guests like Nandita Bakhshi, President and […]
This has been the 20th Anniversary of the Loomba Foundation, and while we celebrated it with gala charity dinners in London and India, we have stayed focussed on India, and have been very happy with the outcome. On the day before this year’s International Widows Day, on the 22nd June, the charity organised an event […]
19th August 2019, New Delhi: A new initiative of Chris Parsons – “CYCLING FOR WIDOWS” was launched at a lunch hosted by the British High Commissioner to India, Sir Dominic Asquith KCMG, at his residence. It was attended by Lord Raj Loomba CBE, Mr. Chris Parsons and many high-profile business leaders. Chris Parsons, a lawyer […]
Education Programmes: Our programmes to educate the children of impoverished widows in India have been at the heart of The Loomba Foundation since its Foundation was established 18 years ago, and 2014-15 has been another milestone year with 1693 students benefiting in 13 states. We partnered with the Hinduja Foundation in five states – Andhra […]
The Loomba Foundation is hosting a special event at the iconic BAFTA in London to commemorate the UN International Widows Day 2024 on 22nd of June, the eve of International Widows Day. It is a day of action to raise awareness of the plight of widows around the world especially in developing countries. The event […]
During the year the Loomba Foundation continued educating children of poor widows, empowering impoverished widows and advocating for the welfare of widows and single mothers. Visit of Lord Loomba to Shri Jagiri Lal Loomba Memorial School, Dhilwan On 3rd April, 2023 Lord Raj Loomba CBE visited Shri Jagiri Lal Loomba Memorial Govt. Senior Secondary School […]
TO THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID 19New Delhi, April 27, 2020 To tackle the growing health pandemic of COVID 19 and assist the government of India to combat the challenge of limited face masks in the country, the Loomba Foundation has donated 1,00,000 (1 lakh) surgical face masks to the National Institute for […]
The project will give need based counselling to widows to help them avail legal aid and benefits of various Government schemes Gurugram, March 8, 2021: The Loomba Foundation and Navjyoti India Foundation launched Project Jeeva to mark International Women’s Day in Gurugram on March 8, 2021. Project Jeeva – Rediscovering the spirit in the lives of widows, […]
Dhilwan, Punjab, 19 Sep 2022 – Lord Loomba along with his family visited Shri Jagiri Lal Loomba Memorial Govt. Senior Secondary School on 19th September, 2022. 2nd Instalment of Scholarship Cheques of Rs.3000/- each to 24 students has been distributed. Further, 12 blankets were also distributed to class IV staff of the school. The programme […]