Dinner for a cause

Corporate bigwigs, socialites, sportspersons and film stars will do some charity for government schoolchildren next month -- by eating heartily. The Non-Governmental Organisation ‘Project 511’ will organise a ‘black-tie’ annual charity dinner ‘Food For Change’ as part of its ‘Daan Utsav’, on October 5, at JRC Conventions in Jubilee Hills.

Sharing the details, delegates from the Hyderabad Round Table No.8, which supports the NGO, informed that the best hotels in the city will come together under one roof for serving at the venue.

Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre, ITC Grand Kakatiya, Marriott, Avasa and Radisson Hitec will provide the culinary specials at the event for which ticket price is set at Rs.4,000 per person, inclusive of wines. Name of the donor will be displayed at the entrance if one parts with Rs.50,000 for eight persons.

Ambitious plans Project 511 focuses on improving infrastructure of government schools and building competencies of the children studying there. So far, 300 toilet blocks have been constructed, and 3,000 blackboards have been provided, apart from furniture, mobile and fixed science labs, and teaching learning material, to schools in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts, said chairman of the Hyderabad Round Table No.8, and COO of the Naandi Foundation Anoop Ratnakar Rao. Sri Chaitanya, Cyient, Lakamsani Group, MYK Laticrete and Penna Cements will sponsor the event, a press communiqué informed. For more information, one may contact the Convenor Sujeet Govindaraju at 9573721204.