News Track India (19 September 2013)
?As responsible members of society, it is upon us to take initiatives to eradicate hunger in India. Programmes like the ?World Hunger Relief? encourages us and other corporate to serve the community in which we operate. I am honoured to partner with Smile Foundation and Yum! in their movement to target one of the biggest risks to health worldwide. I have pledged my support to this initiative and urge all consumers to join in the noble cause?, Said Sharman Joshi. Commenting on the partnership, Vikram Singh Verma- COO- Smile Foundation said, ?We are proud to associate with Yum! restaurants India in their movement to address hunger and malnutrition, not only in India, but world over. Their contribution towards the cause is phenomenal. Partnering with them, further reiterates our mission of working as a catalyst towards bringing change in lives of thousands of underprivileged children and women, and enable the civil society to encourage proactively in the change process.? Smile Foundation is a national level development
organization reaching out to more than 300,000 underprivileged children,
youth and women directly every year through 158 welfare projects on
subjects such as education, healthcare, youth employability, and women
empowerment across 25 states of India. Adopting a life cycle approach
of development, Smile Foundation focuses its interventions on children,
their families and the community. |
Hunger
Relief (WHR) world?s largest private sector hunger relief effort at
KFC, cannaught Place, New Delhi. On the occasion, Vikran Singh Verma
of COO-Smile Foundation and President of Yum! Restaurants India, Niren
Choudhary were also present and witnessed the event.