Kindergarten children donate Rs 22,000 for STAR News Relief Fund

Media release, February 10, 2005

New Delhi

Contributions towards the Tsunami relief effort continue to pour in from often-unexpected quarters. Moved by the scale of the Tsunami disaster and its toll on human life and property, including the many children left orphaned, twenty-eight kids from a Mumbai School (Kangaroo KG school situated at Juhu) visited the STAR News office recently to donate Rs. 22,000 to the 'STAR News Relief Fund'. The effort was noteworthy considering the children had painstakingly collected the money in their piggy banks and parted with it willingly as a work of conscience. The money was handed over by Ms. Archana Goenka, trustee of the school, to STAR News anchor Mandira Swahney Fernandes. As a special treat, the kids were taken on a tour around the STAR News property.

STAR News, India's first global news channel, has set up the "STAR News Relief Fund" in an urgent response to alleviate in some measure the plight of the victims of the Tsunami devastation. STAR News had also initially pledged Rs. 10 lakh to endorse its own commitment to the cause and to appeal to all concerned citizens to donate generously.

For further information, please contact:

Amandeep S. Kaur / Tarun D. Nagrani

Vaishnavi Corporate Communications

Tel: 011- 52393500 / 9810020292

E-mail: akaur@vccpl.com / tnagrani@vccpl.com