Individuals and representatives from different schools and corporate organisations have handed over the materials to TRY project so that they can be given to the children of various underprivileged schools in Bangaldesh.
The biggest toy collection event was held on Monday at The Mughal Kitchen in Gulshan 1 in Dhaka, said a press release from organisers.
People of different classes responded to the call from TRY and brought old unused toys and books from their homes and donated those for underprivileged children.
Celebrities like Tahsan, band Shironamhin, Sulaiman Shukhon, Arif R Hossain, Miftah Zaman came to the event to donate and encourage others to donate. The toy donors handed over the toys to their favorite celebrities, took selfies with them. Top officials from different corporate also attended the event.
The event collected over 1000 toys and more than 500 books on spot in the event, which will go to different underprivileged schools in coming days. This year, the project is targeting to reach 10000 underprivileged children with toys and story books.
Perfetti Van Melle, payPoint, surjoPay and IPDC sponsored TRY project in 2016. N9ine Sports and Marketing Consultancy was the Food Sponsor while Mughol Kitchen was the Venue Partner and ABC Radio was the Radio Partner for the TRY Grand Collection Event.
Initiated in 2015, Toys-R-Yours (TRY) project already supported over 7000 underprivileged with toys and story books by establishing libraries.
So far in 2016, children in 16 schools received toys and children in 12 schools received library support covering over 5000 children in very remote areas like Pirojpur, Bandarban, Kisoreganj, Cox’s Bazar.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
