Kapil Dev – a former Indian skipper will be launching a high profile art charity auction in Dubai to raise funds for carrying out health and educational programmes for children in India and Dubai.
The event will be organized jointly by Dev’s Khushii, a child right advocacy group and the government-run Al Noor Center for Special Needs Children on November 28. The auction, to be conducted by Christies, will include a special presentation by globally renowned artist Richard Clayderman.
Khushii and Al Noor have taken this step together as the first initiative towards Khushii’s global vision to create the world’s first NGO forum that will provide aid to areas affected by global calamities,” its chairman Dev said while speaking at the occasion.
The event is at Dubai on November 28, 2008.