GALA RAISES FUNDS FOR PEOPLE IN NEED IN KOLKATA AND TORONTO

By Shagorika Easwar, Desi Niews

The Toronto Calcutta Foundation's annual gala raised funds and awareness for causes it supports recently.

The Toronto Calcutta Foundation (TCF) is a non-profit organization and registered charity in Canada, working to alleviate the poverty in Kolkata and surrounding areas.

Supporters gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn enjoyed hors d'oeuves, dinner and entertainment. Master of Ceremonies Piya Chattopadhyay got the evening going, introducing guest speaker Olivia Chow, Member of Parliament.

Chow made a heartfelt appeal to the guests to open their wallets for the initiatives funded by the Foundation. She quoted lines from a Rabindranath Tagore poem:

Where the mind is without fear
And the head is held high
Where knowledge is free...
Into that heaven of freedom,
My father.
Let my country awake!

The lines applied equally to Canada, ...read more