Chandigarh NGO celebrates Holi with shelter home girls

CHANDIGARH: City-based NGO

SWAG-Strong Women and Girls

celebrated Holi in a different way this year. The NGO is a youth-based organization and its members celebrated the festival with girls at the Jyoti Sarup shelter home in Kharar. The orphanage started by

Dr Harminder

houses 110 girls. A week before the festival, SWAG started an online drive for collecting tiffin boxes that were donated at the shelter home.

"We were informed by Dr Harminder that the orphanage needed tiffin boxes for girls, so we decided to start a drive requesting people to donate a tiffin box each. The campaign was a huge success and we overachieved our target and collected water bottles as well. People sent tiffin boxes from different cities from as far as Pune," said

Ishita Uppal

, president, SWAG and former

brand ambassador

of Haryana for Save the Girl Child campaign.

The volunteers organized a Holi party for kids with music, refreshments and herbal colours. Both the volunteers and the kids had a great time. The NGO donated 105 tiffin boxes and 25 water bottles to the orphanage. Volunteers from the NGO make frequent visits to Jyoti Sarup to interact and play with children. Last year, the NGO had celebrated Holi at Old Age Home in Sector 15, Chandigarh.