Following from a highly-successful Holi this year, the team behind the free community event attended by over 6,000 people across communities this March, has fulfilled their promise of giving back to the community.
A fraction of the proceeds has been distributed to Allenvale School in Christchurch, and Shanti Niketan Higher Secondary School in Bhopal, India. While Allenvale got cash donation, Shanti Niketan's 60-odd students got shining new lunch boxes.
Mr Hitesh Sharma, co-partner in Revel Events, a Christchurch-based event management company, which organised the event partnering with Christchurch Multicultural Council (CMC), Christchurch City Council, and the city's new Crown company Otakaro Limited, informed, “It was always our intention to donate a part of the proceeds from colour and t-shirt sales to charitable causes working for children welfare in India and New Zealand. We covered two schools this time around and hope to increase the number substantially in the years to come.”