Shilpa Launches Her Own AIDS Charity

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Shilpa Launches Her Own Charity

Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty is launching an Aids

charity - and the Bollywood actress says she will donate all her

winnings from the reality TV show to it.

The charity will be called the Shilpa Shetty Foundation.

Shilpa, at the centre of an international controversy about racist

bullying on the show, told Sky News: " Aids is a subject very close to

my heart.

" India has the second largest number of Aids sufferers in the world.

All my Celebrity Big Brother winnings will go into the foundation. "

The actress played an Aids patient in the recent film Phir Milenge,

which won her critical acclaim.

Her announcement came after she visited the House of Commons in

London as a special guest of Labour MP Vaz.

The Bollywood actress said: " It feels great (to be here), it's such

an honour. "

She joked near Big Ben: " This is what we always see on the postcards. "

At the height of the racism row inside the CBB house, Mr Vaz raised

the issue in Parliament after a record number of viewers complained

to the TV watchdog Ofcom.

He said: " We would not tolerate this kind of racism on other types of

television programmes and we should not do so on a programme that is

watched by millions of people. "

The race row caused an international diplomatic incident which

threatened to damage Britain's reputation abroad

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Dear FORUM,

A highly welcome move. The commitment was visible right from the " Phir

Milenge " days.

We should facilitate some good activities from the support of the foundation to

fill the gaps not taken care of by the national programme, public-private

partnership and other endeavours. It would be a good idea to decide an area of

work/specific activity/geographicl area whatever is feasible and acceptable to

the foundation.

Many different people and organizations may extend unconditional support to the

foundation.

Best wishes,

Dr.Rajesh Gopal

Dr. Rajesh Gopal, MD

Joint Director,

Gujarat State AIDS Control Society (GSACS),

O/1 Block, New Mental Hospital Complex,

Meghaninagar, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. PIN 380016

Phone (O) 079-22680211--12--13,22685210 Fax 079-22680214

E-MAIL: <dr_rajeshg@...>