International Widows Day - 23rd June

The Loomba Trust has launched International Widows Day, a new initiative, which takes place each year on 23 June, to highlight the situation of widows and their children all over the world and to provide a focus for effective action. Cherie Blair QC announced the initiative at the House of Lords on 26th May, 2005. The date of 23 June was chosen because it was on this day that Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba, the inspiration of the Trust, became a widow. The first International Widows Day was marked by the Trust by releasing 1000 multi-colour balloons near the Tower Bridge in London.