Amisha Patel joins an NGO
Saturday, November 18, 2006
 Amisha Patel has joined an NGO called PlanetRead that helps teach people in villages to read, through the use of film songs. About her involvement with the NGO, Amisha says that she met Scott Norton from University of Boston about a year ago who told her about the concept. She liked the concept in which the film songs are played and the text appears below like karaoke. She says that since she is a film personality, her famous songs help greatly in teaching the villagers. Amisha says that due to poverty, many children in India are deprived of education and have to start working at a very young age. This educational system by the NGO is more like watching TV and learning.
Amisha has recently returned from Fiji and Sydney where she performed live. Amisha says that Bollywood films are very famous in Fiji and one can't miss India there. Even in Australia 30 per cent of the audiences for the show were Australian who enjoy Bollywood films.
Courtesy: IndiaFM
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