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The Loomba Trust
The Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba Memorial Trust, widely known as The Loomba Trust, is named after a remarkable lady, Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba, who became a widow at the early age of 37 years in 1954 in Punjab in India. Although she had received no formal schooling herself she succeeded in educating all her seven young children single-handed.
Since it's inception, the Loomba Trust has achieved a great deal but there remains much more to do. We need to help the unfortunate widows who, through no fault of their own, lose their husbands and then their place in society.
They are marginalised, deprived and discriminated against, often by their own relatives and friends. They are not allowed to re-marry and lose their right to inherit. They are often uneducated and poor and find it difficult to find work. To compound their hardship, they find themselves having to depend upon their children, who become the bread winners in the family, often working on the streets or in factories where child labour abuse is common.