The Loomba Foundation

The Loomba Foundation is a non-profit, UN accredited, international NGO. We help widows and their children regardless of race, gender or religion. Our aim is to eradicate discrimination against widows, lobby governments to give widows their due pensions and rightful inheritances, empower widows through employment opportunities and educate their children. Widows face discrimination when they lose their husbands. They are abused, beaten and raped in some cases. Theor possesions and inheritance are taken away from them. They have no money so these programs are designed to help them to be self sufficient so they can support themesleves and their children. At the moment we are involved in two programs in India, educating the children of widows and a skills training program to help 30,000 widows in India. The skills training includes sewing machines and stitching as well as learning skills for a variety of industries to include telecommunications (call centres), beauty/wellness, health...