The Rotary Club of Pondicherry Eves is back with its fundraising project, ‘Shopping Sorgam’, to be held on October 10 and 11.
The shopping festival will have goods such as home made pickles and savouries, apart from organic food stuff, sarees, dresses, jewellery, accessories, bed sheets, silverware, paintings, wall hangings, lamps, home furnishings and other products. And all these made by women entrepreneurs.
The exhibition is also a platform to showcase the businesses of homemakers, said Anamika Saraogi, chairperson, Rotary Club of Pondicherry Eves.
The festival will have stalls from Coimbatore, Madurai, Panruti and Tindivanam. Students from Achariya Siksha Mandir will be staffing more than 20 stalls with games, food and juice counter, terracotta products and mehndi designing.
Funds raised from Shopping Sorgam along with contributions from Rotary International, will be used for building toilet blocks, getting R.O. plants and napkin incinerators for schools and orphanages, as well as medical equipment for the needy, in the spirit of Swachh Bharat Mission, said the organisers of the event.
The club also has plans to adopt a village in Puducherry to aid its development.
Funds from previous Shopping Sorgam and other events have been used to construct a toilet block in a girls’ school, and obtain blood pressure monitors for dialysis patients and paediatric endoscopy equipment, they said.
With last year’s event being a success, the organisers have been motivated to host a larger version of the festival this year, they said.
The shopping festival will be held at Jayaram Thirumana Nilayam from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on October 10 and 11.
Funds from ‘Shopping Sorgam’ will be used to build toilets in a girls’ school, help orphanages
