Kuwaiti embassy in India holds spring fundraising bazaar

a bid to gather donations for under privileged children and people in India, the Kuwaiti Embassy in New Delhi along with local NGO, the Gunjan Foundation, organized a spring bazaar on Saturday. The event, held inside the embassy, was inaugurated by the wife of the Kuwaiti ambassador to India, Huda Al-Shaye The bazaar hosted stalls set up by locals selling Indian and Western clothes, home decorations, jewellery, antiques and footwear. The income generated from the sale, organisers said, would be spent on poor and needy people. Speaking to KUNA, Huda-Al-Shaye said the aim of the carnival was to help the poor and under privileged people in India. She said that she had always been interested in charity work, adding, it provides a chance to serve humanity. "I always wanted to help the needy and the poor in some way. The NGO Gunjan foundation expressed their interest to help me in charitable work. They arranged the goods and stalls to be put on," she said. "We provide them space and other things of use. We bore all the expenses spent on the carnival. And our government was also helpful. They sent some items like clothes and traditional fabrics which we also put on the stalls." Al-Shaye said that the income generated from the bumper sale would be utilized to fund education and to help under privileged children. Such events also cement relations between Kuwait and India on social and cultural levels, she added. Former Indian Ambassdor to Kuwait and Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Satish Mehta, who was also present on the occasion termed the spring carnival as a great gesture for India by the Kuwaiti Ambassdor and his wife. He said the carnival supports a good cause - providing education for poor and needy children. "Kuwait has always been a generous country. They have supported the causes and development around the world," he told KUNA. He reiterated the notion that events like these cement relations between the two countries, particulary on the cultural and social spectrums.