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The Bombay Burner Bangladeshi girls to benefi t from curry night
launches on bonfi re night
- it’s free if you can take it A Grand Charity Dinner to fund education for orphaned girls in Bangladesh, is being held at the Bombay
Lounge, Peatmoor, on 24 November.
Can you handle the hottest curry… This follows a similar event understand fully the difference that Tickets for the evening cost £25.
in the world? That’s the challenge which raised £1,350 for the Bangla- this charity makes.” To book a table call the Bombay
posed by Hanif Robbani, owner of desh Female Academy at the Jafl ong Lounge on 887799.
the Bombay Lounge in Peatmoor. restaurant in Lechlade.
The Bombay Burner is a new Freshbrook resident Junab Ali Charity curry nights
feature on the menu. If you can and owner of the Jaflong is a booking for 2010
eat it you’ll get the meal free, as director of the academy. He said,
well as a £25 voucher for your next “the academy offers free educa- Hanif donates profi ts each Monday
visit. But before you take part in tion, boarding, clothing, food and and Tuesday to charity. There are
the challenge, you’ll have to sign a social welfare needs to girls who two dates available in December
legal waiver drawn up by a solicitor. are poor, orphaned or destitute, and bookings are now being taken
Hanif explained, “the Bombay who would otherwise not receive for next year.
Burner is a bit of fun. We are going to an education.” Community groups and chari-
create a dish that we believe is going Bombay Lounge owner Hanif ties, schools and sports clubs, as
to be the hottest that is commercially Robbani said, “I hold this particu- well as businesses raising money
sold and invite lovers of very hot lar charity close to my heart as I for good causes can book an eve-
food to rise to the challenge.” originate from Bangladesh and ning. Check available dates at
Those who survive the burn will have seen the scale of poverty. I www.swindonlink.com
have their photo displayed on the
restaurant’s hall of fame web page.
Hanif is investigating how to Swindon’s twin town, Ocotal, celebrates 200 years
verify that the Bombay Burner is the A group of Swindon people travelled to Ocotal in Nicaragua in October to celebrate the town’s two hun-
hottest curry, including registration dreth year with other twin town representatives from Spain, Germany and France.
with the Guinness World Records. Members of Swindon Ocotal Link bi-centenary celebration. Next year
Tapas night 2 Discover the link self-fi nanced their travel to Central we will celebrate twenty years of
Swindon Ocotal Link
Following a successful foray into Annual General Meeting America on the invitation of the twinning. Our group raises over
Mayor of Ocotal Dr Carlos Norori £4,000 annually to support social
Spanish ways of presenting Asian and pre-Christmas social who was pictured in The Link on a projects, that includes generous
dishes in smaller quantities in Au- Friday 11 December, 7.15pm for visit to Swindon in September 2008. donations from Penhill Lunch Club
gust, the Bombay Lounge is holding 7.30pm start, Lower Shaw Farm, Bruce Clarke, chairman of SOL, to the old people’s home in Ocotal.
another tapas night on Wednesday Old Shaw Lane said, “we are very proud to repre- Gestures like this make the link all
25 November. sent Swindon at the international the more real and tangible.”
To book a table for a more mild This is an opportunity to fi nd out
night out call 887799. more about Swindon’s twin town.
www.swindonocotal-link.org.uk Swindon artist works with
Mexico's street children

Swindon graphic designer and community artist Kate Parsons is
spending October working with street children in Mexico - helping
poverty-stricken youngsters use art to develop their self-esteem.
Kate is well known in North
Swindon where she has worked
extensively with pupils at Isambard
School through the Flux project.
When that concluded she looked on
the internet for further opportuni-
ties and came across the volunteer
programme run by Foundation
Juconi.
As she was learning Spanish,
loves community arts events and
wanted to travel, it was the per-
fect fi t.
In Puebla, a town about 80 miles
from Mexico City, Kate has been
organising activities with children Kate with some of the artwork
usually found working in markets, she has introduced children to
and teenagers who would be living Owners of Old Town Mexican
Sell on the streets without Juconi's help. restaurant Manuels have donated
your home Kate said that arts activities are a money to Kate’s project and will
for only way to give young people a means support Juconi on her return.
£695 of self-expression. "UNICEF reports “Manuels has a collecting box
that 24 million people in Mexico live in the restaurant and are donating
in extreme poverty. Many kids are at money raised from certain dishes,”
Properties urgently required risk and a lot of them have to work. said Kate. “They've embraced the
Juconi gives them personalised project and I'm grateful to them
Call us for a FREE market valuation support, being there for them no "When I get back I'd like to
matter how long it takes. make links between the youngsters
01793 722151 “In art nothing is ever good or there and schools in Swindon, and

Email us on [email protected] bad so this project will boost the maybe even look at an exchange
children's awareness of themselves programme; we'll just have to see
Visit our website www.abodeswindon.co.uk as well as giving them a chance to how it goes."
work together." www.parsonscreative.co.uk/mexico

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