1. India Night! Students Fundraise for Charity ‘Peace Child India’
Sresha Banerjee
‘India Night’ was an event organized by students of Grade 11 and 12, on Friday
27th January, to fundraise money for a charity called Peace Child India. This
charitable organization focuses on health and education of young people housed
in Government shelters for young offenders, and providing access to art material,
life skills training, medicine and toiletries. Since August 2004, Peace Child India
has chosen 50 Rural Government Schools across India, to improve infrastructure.
The aim is to be able to provide better books, reading rooms and toilets, so as to
increase the student attendance and attention. The charity also hopes to
document the changes and then petition the Government to provide with its vast
resources, what a small organization has been able to. For further information on
this charity, please visit their website: http://www.peacechildindia.org/
The event aimed to raise money and awareness through the culture and flavours
of India. ‘India Night’ saw 100 students, parents and teachers attend the event
Flavours of India: Students, SreshaBanerjeeand AlizaRana (Grade12) servetheguests
delicious warn home-cooked traditional Indian dishes.
TheAim: Thecharity, which thefund raised money goes towards, to help youngboys such as theones in this picture
taken from thePeaceChild Indiawebsite.

2. and enjoy the delicious traditional Indian curries such as Chicken Tikka Curry,
‘Paneer’ a cottage cheese curry,and ‘Rajma’, a curry made withkidney beans. Snacks
like Onion Bhaji’s and Pakoras were donated by a local Indian restaurant, Mango
Chuteny, in Englefield Green. Everyonewhocame to support the event and the charity
also enjoyed the other stalls selling Indian styled accessories, Raffletickets to win 2
tickets to Thorpe Park, and Henna tattoos for the girls. There was also a Bollywoodfilm
viewing of ‘Dil Chahta Hai’.
At the end of the night we managed to raise £480, whichwill go towards the charity.I
would personally like to thank all the parents and students whoput the effortto cook
the dishes forthe night, all the students whohelped me organize the event and everyone
whocame to support the event and the charity, formaking the night a great success! We
hope you will continue to show yoursupport forPeace Child India in the future.
Student Organizers (from left): AkshitaDhingra,
SreshaBanerjee, Rushil Chowdhary, Timo
Fermin, Arushi Tyagi and Helen McCormack.
Traditional Indian Accessories Stall: Farah Sinada
HennaArt- ‘PeaceChild’in Hindi: SofieFiege HennaArt (Left) IpsitaBanerjeedesigningHenna
tattoos for thegirls. (Right) Emily Jose’s Hennatattoo.