£100,000 Bangladeshi charity appeal launched by
entrepreneur
19 March 2008
Wealthy
restaurateur Dr Wali Uddin is hoping to raise enough money to build
70 cyclone-proof houses in Bangladesh to replace properties which
were destroyed in a cyclone in November.
Dr Uddin is planning a three-course fundraising dinner with
entertainments in aid of the Bangladesh Flood Victim Appeal
Fund.
This is not the first fuindraising that Dr Uddin has carried out
for the country, said ethnicnow.com.
Previous donations from "incredibly generous" Scots have been
used to purchase an education and community centre which can also
be used as a cyclone shelter and which has "has made a huge
difference to people's everyday lives".
Dr Uddin's restaurant Britannia Spice has previously won the
Restaurant of the Year award and the entrepreneur also works as
chair of the council of Bangladeshis in Scotland and Honorary
Consul of Bangladesh in Scotland.
The proceeds of the dinner will help Bangladeshis and "give them
the means to rebuild and develop their own future, without the fear
of it all being literally blown away overnight," he told
ethnicnow.com.
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh in November last year. Winds of up
to 135 miles per hour, whipped up tidal waves and caused widespread
flooding and destroyed up to 95 per cent of rice crops and 90 per
cent of homes.
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