{"id":30888,"date":"2019-12-13T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30888"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:35:28","slug":"30000-raised-for-helping-little-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/13\/30000-raised-for-helping-little-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a330,000 Raised for Helping Little Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highly successful and entertaining charitable evening was recently hosted by Helping Little Angels at the prestigious Birmingham Botanical Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating a diverse audience from the business community as far afield as Manchester and London, people came together to enjoy networking in a relaxed and sociable atmosphere, as well as learn more about the charity\u2019s work and future projects.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30891 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-3-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a>Kul Mahay, Public Speaker and Founder of Ignite Your Inner Potential, a personal development organisation, was host, compere, and auctioneer for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kul said: \u201cIt was a blissful evening full of generosity, giving and a wonderful diversity of guests from the business community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to have supported Helping Little Angels. Moreover, for my upcoming event in Derby on 11th January, Ignite Your Inner Potential 2020, one of the biggest personal development events, I am proud to announce the chosen charity for the event will be HLA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30892 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-4-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Shahid Sandhu, Chairman of HLA, said: \u201cThis event is very significant for us in terms of bringing together highly successful business people and professionals to build stronger ties with them as well as raise more awareness of the charity\u2019s core projects &#8211; supporting orphans and educating poor children. We look forward to establishing mutually beneficial partnerships with many of them in the near future.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30889 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-1-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a>There are currently 60 children housed at the orphanage in Lahore, Pakistan. One of the new and exciting projects includes building a girls\u2019 wing near the existing orphanage. This will not only allow the charity to take in more children, but also provide more focused care and support individually to both girls and boys.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30893 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-5-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/HLA-BG-Event-Nov-19-Pic-5.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a>During the evening \u00a322,000 was raised. Dr. Sandhu said: \u201cDonations are still coming in. We have raised an impressive \u00a330,000 so far!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire HLA team would like to thank all our guests for coming and their tremendous generosity; as well as our sponsors for their magnificent support: Al Faisal\u2019s Restaurant, Aasaka Health, Giro Food Ltd., Itihaas, WNTV and John Price Printers. A final thanks to Milner Menswear, Shabir Beigh, Maqsood Hussain and Kul Mahay for donating some of the fantastic auction items.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For information please call Lubna on 07904 160 726.<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/helpinglittleangels.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/helpinglittleangels.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture Credit: WNTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly successful and entertaining charitable evening was recently hosted by Helping Little Angels at the prestigious Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Celebrating a diverse audience from the business community as far afield as Manchester and London, people came together to enjoy networking in a relaxed and sociable atmosphere, as well as learn more about the charity\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,37,283],"tags":[2355,2357,2356,2358],"class_list":["post-30888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-latest","category-local-news","category-top-news","tag-dr-shahid-sandhu","tag-helping-little-angels","tag-kul-mahay","tag-lubna-sarwar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}