<i>'Check-out for children' concert tomorrow</i>
With the aim of immunising children across the world against the fatal diseases, a fund raising concert will be held at Sheraton Hotel in the capital tomorrow as part of the 'Check out for children' programme of the Unicef.
The Dhaka Sheraton Hotel and private television channel ntv are jointly organising the concert at the Winter Garden of the hotel with the support of Nescafe, Panasonic and Rahimafrooz. Radio Foorti is the media partner of the event.
This was stated at a press conference organised by Dhaka Sheraton Hotel on its premises with the representatives of Unicef, ntv and other supporting organisations.
The 'Check out for children' programme has been carrying out by the Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, one of the leading hotel and leisure companies, with the Unicef to assist Unicef's immunisation programme worldwide for the last 10 years. Dhaka Sheraton Hotel joined the programme a few years back, said the organisers.
Mahfuzur Rahman, acting general manager of Dhaka Sheraton Hotel, said the occupants of Starwood across the world are invited to donate $ 1 or its equivalent in local currency upon their check-out of the hotels to donate for the immunisation programme.
Dhaka Sheraton Hotel raised and donated Tk 360000 to the fund last year, he said.
At the concert starting at 6:00pm, noted singer Bappa Majumder, renowned band singer Shafin Ahmed and famous musical band Nagar Baul (James) will perform, he added.
Christine Jaulmes, chief of communication of Unicef, said the voluntary contribution of a dollar by the hotel guests while checking out accumulated over $ 16 million over the past 10 years.
“Immunisation rate increased substantially during this decade in Bangladesh, but we should keep up the work by reaching those children who remain beyond the reach of routine immunisation,” she added.
Each ticket of the concert will cost Tk 700 and it will be available in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel, BFC (all branches) and Western Grill (all branches), said the organisers.
Mostofa Kamal Syed, programme chief of ntv, Ehsan Mahboob, head of sales of Radio Foorti, and Rabeth Khan, chief executive officer of Macomm Resolve also spoke.
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