Meera Gandhi's RNID investiture in NY
March 1, 2010
Publication: New York Social Diary
Two weeks ago at Clodagh Design at 670 Broadway, Clodagh hosted the investiture of Meera Gandhi as a Centenary Councillor of the UK's Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID). She was invested by RNID's Centenary Director, Philip Bonn who flew over from England for the occasion.
The RNID was founded by Leo Bonn, (who was deaf) in 1911, the father of WW 1 hero, the late Major Walter Basil Louis Bonn, DSO, MC; and the Founder was the grandfather of the late Major Christopher Leslie Leo Bonn.
RNID is currently the UK 's largest charity, and HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has been its Patron for over 50 years; while The Right Honourable Lord Ashley of Stoke is President. Chief Executive, Ms. Jackie Ballard, is a former Liberal Member of Parliament.
Meera Gandhi who currently lives in New York, London and in Hong Kong will host a centennial event at her London home in June 2011 for RNID. She recently founded The Giving Back Foundation and has completed a film called "Giving Back" featuring global names like Kerry Kennedy, Deborah Norville, Clodagh, Vikram Gandhi, Steven Rockefeller and Viveck Vaswani. �Her motto and that of the foundation is "We are to the universe only as much as we give back to it." The foundation will release the film on DVD at the end of May as well as a CD and coffee table book, with body and bath products to follow -- 100 per cent of proceeds going to the foundation.
Patty Raynes and Meera Gandhi
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Ayesha Hakki, Farber Robinson, Lloyd Robinson, and Gary Miller
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Chardonnay Pickard
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Shahana Kanodia and Ajid Hutheesinj
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Meera Gandhi and Kabir Gandhi
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Lloyd Robinson and Farber Robinson
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Clodagh with Ellen Sweeny
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Janet League Katson
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Ajid Hutheesinj and Anit Kanodia
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Ben Castillio and Meera Gandhi
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Daniel Aubrey, Christine Kennelly, and Serge Mercado
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Meera Gandhi and Cavalier Philip Bonn
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Juliet Hanlon and Cavalier Philip Bonn
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Helena Greene, Janet League Katson, and Meera Gandhi
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Stella Karananlis and Liana Makkos
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