A project to empower 1,000 widows and women prisoners in 19 district prisons of Haryana was launched on Friday.
Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij launched The loomba Foundation’s project at Central Prison in Ambala.
Giving details of the projects, founder & chairman of The loomba Foundation, lord loomba CBE, said “The loomba Foundation
intends to do this project with the sole purpose of helping the prison inmates use their time constructively during their stay in prison and to make them learn some skills which will eventually help them on their release from prison.”
“The inmates will not only be trained to have vocational skills, but various aspects of personal development as well as value education would be equally emphasized,” he said.
He added that the mission is to make prisons a place of reformation and give the incarcerated beings a chance to become an asset to the society upon their release.
Recently, a charity concert was organised in New Delhi by The loomba Foundation with internationally-renowned Punjabi singer Gurdas Maan for raising funds for this Haryana project.
The loomba Foundation is assisting over 15,000 impoverished widows in nine states, including a project to empower 5000 widows in Varanasi which was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year.