[Reader-list] HungerFREE Children! A photo exhibition (16th – 27th November, 2009 at British Council Library)

[Susan Thomas]

*HungerFREE Children!*
A photo exhibition | Opening on the 16th at 6:30 pm @ British Council
Library... Do join us!

*Why:* Over half of India’s child population under the age of six suffers
from malnutrition. Most live in families of poor and marginalised
communities. Every fourth child in India never gets to attend a school.
Living without food, healthcare, education and in an unsafe surrounding they
battle against hunger and dream of a better future and a better world.
With help from hundreds of community organisations, ActionAid works with the
most vulnerable groups of children across India. We do not see a child
detached from their family and immediate surrounding, so we work together
with families, teachers and government agencies to get them their right to
food, shelter and education.

*What:* Evocative images of slum children, runaway children on railway
platforms, child labourers that lend a face to childhood wrecked by poverty,
yet celebrating their fight for rights for a better tomorrow.
We as a nation must commit to HungerFREE Children by giving them their
rights and addressing poverty that is at the root of lost childhood.

Come join UK celebrity, Katherine Kelly of Coronation Street fame and young
scholars from slums of Delhi for discussions over high tea!

*Where:* British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi

*When: *6:30 pm, 16th November 2009

*Media Contact:* Susan +91 9968261974; Parvinder +91 09811224816

Katherine Kelly, born on 19 November 1979, is a British actress and is best
known for currently playing Becky Granger one of UK's longest running soap
opera, Coronation Street, for which she also won Best Actress award at the
British Soap Awards.
She is in India to celebrate her 30th birthday with communities that
ActionAid India works with.
Katherine trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London,
graduating in 2001. She has worked extensively in TV, Film, Radio and
Voice-over. She was a leading lady at the Royal Shakespeare Company
2004-2005, performing in both Stratford-Upon-Avon and the West End.
In 2009 itself she has Won 'Best Soap Personality' at the 2009 TRIC Awards;
Won 'Favourite Soap Female' at the 2009 TV Now Awards; Won 'Favourite Soap
Couple' for her onscreen romance with Steve McDonald portrayed by Simon
Gregson; Won 'Best Actress' at the 2009 British Soap Awards; Nominated in
the category of 'Best Onscreen Partnership' at the British Soap Awards again
alongside Simon Gregson; Won 'Best Soap Actress' at the 2009 TV Quick and TV
Choice Awards.