In order to provide financial assistance to the institutions, dedicated to give free education to orphans and specially-abled children, a donation camp was held at Durga Bari, near The Doon School campus in Dehradun on Sunday evening.
Two institutions —Cheshire Home and Hari Om Ashram — were selected for their exemplary roles in educationally uplifting the orphans and the specially-abled children.
Cheshire Home was started at 1956 for specially- challenged children. Today, it is a home to around 60 children. Hari Om Ashram was on the other hand started eight years ago with the mission of looking after orphans.
Currently, it has around 120 children. Mamta Gupta, member of Cheshire Home for the Mentally and Physically Challenged and Swami Mahanta from Hari Om Ashram received the donations.
President of Durga Bari, Debashish Chakravarty and vice- president Manish Mallick gave away the donation in kind Kaustav Nag, Partha Kumar, Subrata Sensharma, HS Maiti, Debashish Mandal, Barun Mukherjee and other Durga Bari committee members were present.