{"id":3008,"date":"2016-06-23T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2016-06-23T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:02:33","slug":"the-loomba-foundation-honors-widows-on-international-widows-day-in-ludhiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/the-loomba-foundation-honors-widows-on-international-widows-day-in-ludhiana\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loomba Foundation honors widows on International Widows Day in Ludhiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Loomba-Foundation-Logo-300x88.png\" alt=\"The Loomba Foundation - Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Loomba-Foundation-Logo-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/The-Loomba-Foundation-Logo.png 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Loomba Foundation marked International Widows Day at an event which was held in Ludhiana.\u00c2\u00a0 The Foundation, which works to empower disadvantaged widows around the world, commemorated widows, by inviting them to talk about their struggles and how the skills training provided by the Loomba Foundation impacted their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, had officially recognized International Widows Day on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> June 2010 at the 65<sup>th<\/sup> UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153International Widows Day is a very special day for us. Every year we try to mark this day as a promise to all the widows we support, that we will continuously strive to give them social standing and perish the taboos of widowhood. We are currently empowering over 15,000 impoverished widows and educating thousands of children of poor widows in India. This event will give us a chance to honor the strength of these widows and give them a platform to speak about how their lives have changed after receiving skills training.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lord Loomba, Founder &amp; Chairman Trustee of The Loomba Foundation, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the World Widow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s report which was launched at the United Nations CWS 60 Parallel event in New York on 17<sup>th<\/sup> March earlier this year, there are 259 million widows and 584 million dependent children around the world. Many of these widows live in poverty, facing gender discrimination and victim to taboos such as witchcraft or being unclean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The past year had been significant for Loomba Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work in India, especially since the Hon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ble Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi recently launched The Loomba Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s project in Varanasi, by distributing sewing machines to empower over 5000 widows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loomba Foundation marked International Widows Day at an event which was held in Ludhiana.\u00c2\u00a0 The Foundation, which works to empower disadvantaged widows around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[3849,3851,3850,2331,3848],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-business-political-national-realestate","tag-cause-of-widows","tag-honors-widows","tag-international-widows-day","tag-ludhiana","tag-the-loomba-foundation"],"views":1602,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Loomba-Foundation-honors-widows-on-International-Widows-Day.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}